Category: Travel

After the successful reopening of Langkawi Island on 16 September, the Malaysian government has decided to open top tourist spot for visitors from 1 October onwards, namely Melaka, Tioman and Genting Highlands. This news clearly is exciting to many, as majority of the population has been having the cabin fever ever since interstate travel and tourism are prohibited due to the pandemic. Melaka, however, will postpone receiving domestic tourist, its chief minister said. Instead, the state will only do so after 90 percent of the country’s adult population has been fully vaccinated.

Thailand plans to reopen Bangkok and other key destinations to foreign tourists next month with aims to revive its travel industry after it has been bruised by the pandemic. According to Nikkei Asia, Thailand’s annual tourist industry revenues plunged 71 percent last year and have fallen 74 percent year on year during the first six months this year. Tourism and related business accounted to roughly 20 percent of annual gross domestic product in pre-Covid times.

After many months of lock downs and restrictions on travelling, Malaysia is finally reopening Langkawi islands in an effort to rebuild tourism, the sector worst hit by the pandemic. According to Prime Minister Ismail Sabri, Langkawi will open to locals under a travel bubble plan from September 16. Other destinations will be allowed to operate when the locality’s vaccination rate reach 80 percent, he said in a statement.

Singapore’s Changi Airport has lost its number one spot at Skytrax’s annual ranking of the world’s best airports at the World Airport Awards after holding reign for nearly a decade. Doha’s Hamad International Airport, which has been climbing the ranks for years, has been rewarded with the number one spot in 2021 in the “World’s Best Airport” category. This year, Changi placed third, much the dismay of many superfans.

Most of us spend our youth browsing the online humour platform 9GAG to brighten our day. The contents have been entertaining to say the least, with memes that makes you rolling-on-the floor-laughing. Now, the online platform has moved a level-up, and has opened the world’s first ‘Meme Museum’ in Hong Kong. With memes becoming part of how people communicate nowadays, the Meme Museum makes for an exciting spot to visit.

Madrid’s Paseo del Prado and Retiro Park was recently added as a new Unesco, but besides Madrid, Unesco has announced some of the new additions to its list of World Heritage Sites. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has voted to add 33 new spots to its list, with more discussions to come after several days of online deliberations.

The Paseo del Prado is one of the main boulevards in Madrid, Spain while the Buen Retiro Park, Retiro Park or simply El Retiro is one of the largest parks of the city of Madrid, Spain. The park belonged to the Spanish Monarchy until the late 19th century, when it became a public park.

Opening on Friday, the 420,000-square-foot Shanghai Astronomy Museum — a branch of the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum — will house exhibitions, a planetarium, an observatory and a 78-foot-tall solar telescope. It is designed by US firm Ennead Architects, which won an international competition to design the building back in 2014.

Dubai has made its feat with the having the world’s tallest building, the. Burj Khalifa. Now, the country has decided to awe the world with Deep Dive Dubai, the deepest swimming pool in the world.