Travel Bubble

The Japanese government has taken a major step towards resuming normal tourism operations after Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced that the country will begin accepting tourists without guides and would increase the daily arrival threshold to 50,000 beginning September 7.

Malaysia’s Ministry of Health (KKM) has introduced a new website that will be updated regularly with COVID-19 travel health protocols for different statuses.

Malaysia will transition towards an endemic phase with COVID-19 on 1 April 2022, according to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob.

Malaysia’s air vaccinated travel lane (VTL) programme with Cambodia and Thailand will begin on March 15.

Get back on that Bali high! With a three-day quarantine from today and quarantine-free entry from 14 March, now’s a great time to plan a holiday!

Australia reopened its borders to international visitors on February 21, nearly two years after shutting them due to COVID-19.

The authorities of Thailand have announced that they will be reopening their borders to Malaysians soon.

Malaysia’s coronavirus recovery council announced on Tuesday that it has suggested a full reopening of borders as early as 1 March without enforced quarantine for travellers.

Malaysia has resumed sales of Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL) air and land tickets to Singapore.

Even more stringent border controls have been instituted throughout Asia in the last week due to the rapid spread of COVID-19’s Omicron variant.

Airlines and bus operators in Malaysia are to temporarily stop selling travel tickets to Singapore under the Vaccinated Travel Lane scheme until 20 January, 2022.

Malaysia has proposed the development of an “appropriate regulatory coherence mechanism to facilitate safe, convenient, and seamless travel at the regional level.”