No quarantine will be required and travellers will be allowed to make business or tourism trips without restrictions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Asia.-\u00a0Hong Kong and Singapore announced on Thursday that they have reached an agreement to create a travel bubble allowing residents to move freely between the two cities on dedicated planes with only a negative Covid-19 test result.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The arrangement is expected to be implemented within weeks. Visitors to either city will have no limits on the type of trip they will be allowed to make, be it for tourism or business reasons.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No\u00a0quarantine period will be required\u00a0on arrival. Transit passengers will not be allowed to board the travel bubble flights.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Hong Kong government said in a statement:\u00a0\u201cThis milestone arrangement will help revive cross-border air travel between the two aviation hubs, in a safe and progressive way.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Singapore transport minister Ong Ye Kung said he hoped the travel bubble could be \u201ca model and a template for us to forge more such relationships and partnerships\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Industry groups welcomed the announcement and said they hoped similar bubbles would be formed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jason Wong, of Hong Kong\u2019s Travel Industry Council, said he “would most love to have similar schemes with destinations like Japan, Thailand and South Korea.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHopefully having the first one would help Hong Kong to convince more partners,\u201d he added.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Singapore began\u00a0to relax restrictions<\/a><\/em><\/strong> for travel in August. Hong Kong is also in talks with Macau<\/a><\/em><\/strong> to form a travel bubble.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No quarantine will be required and travellers will be allowed to make business or tourism trips without restrictions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Hong Kong and Singapore have established a bilateral travel bubble, allowing unrestricted business and tourism travel between the two cities without quarantine, contingent on a negative Covid-19 test. This arrangement, expected to commence within weeks, aims to revive cross-border air travel and serve as a template for future regional agreements, with discussions already underway for a similar bubble between Hong Kong and Macau.","focusai_entities":"Hong Kong, Singapore, Ong Ye Kung, Jason Wong, Travel Industry Council","focusai_location":"Hong Kong, Singapore, Macau, Japan, Thailand, South Korea","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.75), investor_analyst (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.85)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Capital Flows?","query":"What are the projected economic impacts of this travel bubble on regional capital flows and investment in the iGaming sector?"},{"label":"Macau Bubble Implications?","query":"How might this agreement influence the timeline for a similar travel bubble between Hong Kong and Macau, and what would be the implications for integrated resort operators and their GGR projections?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,161,158,16333],"tags":[1619,169],"class_list":["post-10944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-daily-news","category-slider-home","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-hong-kong","tag-singapore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10952,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10944\/revisions\/10952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}