Airlines renewed their calls on Britain to restart international travel, pleading with the government to allow people vaccinated against COVID-19 to travel freely with the peak summer season just weeks away and as Europe begins to open up.
Lawrence Wong, Singapore's finance minister, said Asia is facing "rolling waves" of Covid-19 infections and vaccination rates in many countries are not high.
Covid-19 has resulted in a shift in consumer preference towards booking holidays directly, instead of going through an OTA, a recent GlobalData poll has revealed.