Saga, which specialises in holidays and cruises, as well as over 50’s travel insurance, has announced a new COVID-19 specific package of travel insurance policy for all trips from June 1 2020. Though Saga cruises are on hold for now, …

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  Three months since the cruise industry shutdown Mauritian government and cruise companies hold stranded crew for ransom By Tom Casey 13 June 2020 On Wednesday, Mauritius’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Nando Bodha (Mouvement Socialiste Militant/MSM) announced on behalf of …

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“This is key to build trust and we will only succeed if we work together,” Zurab Pololikashvili, the UNWTO secretary-general, said in a statement. “We are united in the common goal of tourism’s come-back to generate benefits going far beyond …

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(4:20 a.m. AEST) — Australia’s Tourism Restart Taskforce has outlined a proposed recovery plan for domestic and international tourism that would see residents able to travel back and forth to New Zealand beginning July 1, while travel to “safe” countries …

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