Another Eid is nearing, and Dhaka dwellers are planning to leave the city and head home for the holiday. The country is celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr with a nine-day holiday – giving people the perfect opportunity to spend time with their near and dear ones outside the capital, at home, or at tourist destinations. People in Dhaka can move around with relative ease; however, holiday-makers are expected to face a difficult situation.

Thailand's government is considering scrapping the Test & Go entry scheme and Thailand Pass registration next week to attract more visitors and boost the tourism industry.

Bangladeshi travelers with valid Indian visas started using the Hili land port this morning (April 14, 2022) after nearly two years of restrictions due to Covid-19 pandemic.

After more than two years of closure due to Covid-19, the governments of Bangladesh and Inda have lifted the ban on travelling through immigration check-posts at the Banglabandha-Phulbari land ports -- with tourist visas. 

Since the requirement for pre-flight RT-PCR test to detect Covid-19 was lifted, the number of international arrivals at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport has increased significantly.

India has restored all currently valid regular (paper) visa given to nationals of all countries with immediate effect.

The year 2021 has been a difficult time for all of us. With a few days left of the year, you deserve a holiday, one to pamper yourself.

People have now resumed international travelling, although cautiously. With the emergence of a new, more contagious variant, Omicron, however, countries are placing new restrictions on travellers, making international travelling even more uncertain, more hectic

When you are abroad and come across places that feel like home.

Doubts, risks, and the joy in exploration.

Despite restrictions being lifted and things returning to normal, times are still uncertain with new variants of the virus rising up every other month. With these concerns in mind, there are certain guidelines that you ought to know while travelling outside of the country.

The nature trails of Bangladesh have a lot to offer, be it to flora and fauna enthusiasts or those looking for a spiritual experience. The roar of cascading waterfalls after monsoons, and the chirping of rare and exotic birds in unadulterated terrain, have a way of calling back those who have had a taste of trekking.

The constant rise in cases and periodic lockdowns brought a kind of hiatus on Bangladesh’s tourism for more than a year. Fortunately, for the last two months or so, things started looking relatively better as number of cases started reducing and mass vaccination was underway.

With ambitious figures like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos more determined than ever to make human beings a multi-planet species, space is coming closer and closer to earth.

Samai Haider’s Tilmund’s Travel Tales (Guba Books, 2020) is a story about a little boy named Tilmund who has a great wish to follow in his grandfather’s footsteps and travel the world.

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Some 46,664 Bangladeshi pilgrims are yet to travel to Saudi Arabia to perform this year's hajj, according to Biman Bangladesh Airlines Ltd.

The US has warned that the Euro 2016 football championship being held in France next month could be a target of militant attacks.

This is what it's like aboard Beijing's "UFO", the world's largest glass sightseeing platform that opened in the capital's suburban Shilinxia scenic spot on April 30.

Blaine Gibson, 58, has spent most of the past year searching for clues to the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.