Move over glamping and wanderlust, the travel vocabulary for 2019 will have you vying for a bleisure trip. That is a business meets leisure trip in case you were wondering! Other words set to enter your lexicon are flashpacking meaning posh backpacking, poshtel that refers to a fancy hostel; painmoon means a holiday you need after a troubling time. And topping our list is zen-do referring to a wellness-charged weekend full of pampering and yoga.

A total of 17 archeological sites and museums opened their doors across Peru this week, after more than seven months of closure as a measure to reduce the spread of the new coronavirus.
Other nine sites will do so progressively until the end of the month, and six more are expected to open gradually between November and January.
There is no date yet for the reopening of the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, which received 1.5 million tourists a year, and which is the largest Peruvian attraction for international tourism.

Assuming that air travellers must be missing its in-flight fine dining meals, Finnish carrier Finnair&nbsp;is selling business class aeroplane food in supermarkets in a move to keep its catering staff employed and to offer a taste of the airline experience to those missing flying in the Covid-19 times.
The airline said that in a&nbsp;pilot scheme&nbsp;the handmade meals, called &ldquo;Taste of Finnair,&rdquo; would initially be offered at one store.
The ready-made dishes&nbsp;include options like reindeer meatballs, Arctic char and Japanese-style teriyaki beef&nbsp;and would cost about 10 to 13 euros, Finnair Kitchen said.

Kerala has launched the first of its kind water taxi service. The vehicle launched in the backwaters of Alappuzha, ferried passengers. The Catamaran diesel-powered craft has a seating capacity for 10 passengers, and is first in a series of 4 boats, that State Water Transport Department is planning to introduce.&nbsp;After feasibility study was done on the vehicle, the government ordered four of such boats to use them as taxi for the public service. The backwaters of Alappuzha is a major tourist region.

To suit the new normal, Andhra Pradesh is mulling the idea of popularising virtual tours of some of its iconic tourist destinations, Chief Secretary Rajat Bhargava said.&nbsp;In a bid to revive tourism, he said, there is a need to build a perception of safe tourism
He further added that they are also exploring the development of rural tourism.
The state is preparing a new flexible tourism policy and has identified potential locations for development of luxury resorts and hotels.
Plans are underway to develop amusement parks and adventure sports and enhance airports connectivity.

Popular for being one of the most cyclist-friendly cities in the world, Amsterdam seems to be sick of its own virtue.
The Dutch city has gotten complaints that their scenic bridges are being obstructed by cycles, which is forcing pedestrians towards the streets.&nbsp;
As a result, the city will now place wooden&nbsp;plant and flower baskets&nbsp;along the railings&nbsp;on the busiest canal bridges to push cyclists to find other parking spots for their cycles.&nbsp;
Amsterdam boasts of 767 km of cycle lanes and more than half of its residents over the age of 12, bike at least once a day.&nbsp;

Singapore Airlines is all set to resume operations of the world's longest&nbsp;scheduled passenger flight from the 9th of November and it's going to get longer!
Earlier the flight operated between&nbsp;Singapore and Newark.
Now the&nbsp;nonstop flight between Singapore's Changi Airport and&nbsp;New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport will take 18 hours and 5 minutes. While those from&nbsp;JFK to Singapore will take 18 hours and 40 minutes.
The flight will run three times a week, using the airline's&nbsp;Airbus A350-900 .
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After a long period of 7 months and the longest-ever shutdown in its 112-year-history, Assam's Kaziranga&nbsp;National Park and Tiger Reserve opens doors to tourists today.
The park shut down in March in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.&nbsp;
Wearing face masks, using hand sanitisers and maintaining social distancing will be absolutely necessary inside the park premises. A limited number of safaris will be allowed at a single point in time, with sanitisation of every jeep after every trip.
As of now, no elephant safari will be allowed.

Women can now board Mumbai's&nbsp;local trains without a QR code.&nbsp; The Maharashtra government has allowed all women with valid tickets to board the trains.&nbsp;
Local train services were shut down in Mumbai on March 23 amid the pandemic. While&nbsp;limited services were started on June 15, only essential service providers with a special pass were allowed.
Women will be allowed to use the local trains between 11 am and 3 pm, and from 7 pm till the last service.

In a bid to avoid overcrowding, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation is conducting an online survey to analyze travel patterns of commuters amid the Covid-19 outbreak.
The survey is aimed at collecting information from the Delhi Metro commuters on their ability/possibility to schedule their travel in off-peak hours so as to avoid the rush during morning and evening peak hours.
The inputs provided in this survey would help the Delhi Metro to understand the commuters' requirements better and to further improve the services.
The link to the survey will be available until the 27th of October. The authority is requesting commuters to 'break the peak' by making their travels more flexible amid the pandemic.

After a gap of 15 years, Kolkata's iconic double decker buses have returned to the streets of the City of Joy but with a twist!
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee unveiled two such buses on Tuesday, stating that they will be used for hop-on-hop-off tours, passing through iconic landmarks and heritage buildings like the Victoria Memorial.
The two will initially be used for puja parikrama and pandal hopping and later for tourism. The blue and white eco-friendly buses will have folk artists perform to showcase the rich culture of Bengal.
The new buses will have CCTV cameras, 16 seats on the upper deck, automatic doors among other features.

Once again you can fly directly from Mumbai&nbsp;to Maldives as&nbsp;IndiGo restarts flights from the 15th of October.
For now, the carrier will operate flights twice a week, Thursday and Sunday, to Male and will increase the frequency once demand picks up.
The island nation requires all visitors to carry a negative&nbsp;RT-PCR test report from no more than 72 hours prior to departure. Resort-hopping is not allowed for now and you will have to show your confirmed booking to enter.&nbsp;&nbsp;

God's own country, Kerala&nbsp;has opened doors to tourists,&nbsp;beginning 12th of October, in a phased manner, .
While tourists will not be able to hit the beaches till the 1st of November, the hills and backwaters are ready to welcome you. This means, adventure tourism, Ayurveda centres,&nbsp; wildlife safaris and houseboats can be booked!
All tourists have to register online before visiting and those visiting for a period of over 1 week, have to show a&nbsp;Covid-19&nbsp;negative test report on arrival. They do not have to quarantine if they do so.
If you are staying for upto&nbsp;7 days, there will be no need to quarantine upon arrival.
All tourist hotspots&nbsp;will record details of visitors and mandate thermal scanning of the body temperature.&nbsp;
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Jesse Takayama, a Japanese tourist visited Peru in March this year with hopes of touring the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu. But as luck would have it, the World Heritage Site closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Takayama&nbsp;waited almost 7 months to visit Machu&nbsp;Picchu&nbsp;and finally on submitting a special request to the&nbsp;Culture Minister, authorities decided to open the citadel for him.
On Saturday, Machu&nbsp;Picchu&nbsp;was especially opened for him and he visited along with the Park's head.
A video shows him rejoicing on the top of the Machu&nbsp;Picchu&nbsp;mountain. Truly worth the wait.

A Canadian tourist&nbsp;has reportedly returned artefacts&nbsp;stolen from the ruins of the&nbsp;ancient city of Pompeii in Italy. In a package received by a local travel operator, the woman returned two mosaic tiles and several other fragments. The package was accompanied by a letter which details that the relics were stolen in 2005 and the woman returned them because the artefacts&nbsp;are cursed. According to reports citing the letter, she wrote, 'I stole a piece of history that had lots of negative energy inside...I just want to shake this curse off me and my family.'&nbsp;

The Covid-19 pandemic has given rise to a new found love for cycling and in some good news for cycling enthusiasts,&nbsp;Bengaluru just got India's first pop-up cycle lane!
Connecting Silk Board junction and Lowry Memorial College near K.R. Puram on Outer Ring Road (ORR), the bright orange pop-up lanes are finally taking shape!
The entire stretch will be 17 km long, as was announced in June this year, and will be completed by the end of the year.
Authorities now aim to discuss ways to make cycling in cities more accessible for women in Karnataka.

One hundred and fifty eager passengers boarded a Qantas "flight to nowhere" on Saturday from Sydney.&nbsp;The Australian flag carrier announced last month that it would operate a special seven-hour scenic flight across the Northern Territory, Queensland and New South Wales.&nbsp;
The flight sold out within 10 minutes of going on sale.&nbsp;The 150 seats were sold at a rate of $570 for economy seats, $1295 for premium and $2740, which is nearly 2 lakh rupees for business class seats.

Earlier plans of opening Assam's&nbsp;Kaziranga National Park on the 15th of October have been halted due to the flood situation.
Assam minister&nbsp;Parimal Suklabaidya&nbsp;said that a new date for the opening of the national park to tourists will be announced once flood waters recede and the situation improves.
This year's rainfall in the region submerged almost 85% of the park underwater.&nbsp;

Portugal is all set to welcome the world's longest pedestrian suspension bridge called&nbsp;516 Arouca.
While the exact date for the opening hasn't been announced as yet, it is expected to open sometime in 2021. The bridge has taken three years to complete.
&nbsp;1,692 in feet, the&nbsp;Tibetan-style hanging bridge boasts of some absolutely stunning views from the top.&nbsp;

Lonely Planet recently revealed its 'Ultimate Travel List' which is a compilation of the greatest places to experience on Earth, in a definitive ranking.&nbsp;The list includes 500 most thrilling and interesting places on the planet.
Petra in Jordan topped the list for its 'eternal air of mystery'. The Galapagos Islands in Ecuador took the second spot followed by Australia's Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park.
Among the others who made it to the top 10 were Temples of Angkor, Cambodia , the Yellowstone National Park in the United States of America and Annapurna circtuit in Nepal.
The list was compiled after votes from readers and experts. Destinations managing tourism sustainably were granted extra points!

You can now shop hassle-free at Delhi airport's duty free store.
According to an official statement by Delhi International Airport Limited, they have started a 'click and collect' service that enables international passengers to book the products of their choice online and collect from the store on the day of travel.
Passengers who wish to avail the service will have to register themselves on the duty free store website-www.delhidutyfree.co.in0- along with travel and passport details.
After the order has been placed online, passengers will be given a receipt which has to be shown at the airport to collect the purchased products.

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