By 2024, the new CEO of online travel agency Agoda predicted on Monday that Asian visitors will only gradually begin travelling abroad at pre-pandemic levels. According to Omri Morgenshtern, who took over as CEO of Agoda in July, the Asia-focused company anticipates it will take around six months for travellers from Asian nations, excluding China, to travel with confidence after the corresponding COVID-19 limitations are repealed.

Asian tourists to resume international travel at pre-pandemic levels by 2024: Agoda CEO

The pandemic has left its mark on churches in Mexico and Colombia, with a no touching rule in place on Ash Wednesday (February 17). In pre-pandemic times priests would apply ash to the foreheads of faithful in the sign of a cross, on a day that marks the first day of Lent, a 40-day period of prayer and fasting for faithful.

No touching: Covid leaves its mark on Ash Wednesday in Latin America

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Asian tourists to resume international travel at pre-pandemic levels by 2024: Agoda CEO

No touching: Covid leaves its mark on Ash Wednesday in Latin America