Industry welcomes opening of no-restriction travel corridor between Singapore and Hong Kong.

I am already imagining spending Christmas in Hong Kong, feeling the crisp cold of a winter season, taking in the lights of one of Asia’s most vibrant, dynamic cities and catching up with friends in some of the best restaurants in the world.

Yes, one shouldn’t count Christmases before they are hatched but it looks like that dream could become a reality after news yesterday that Hong Kong and Singapore have agreed to the first bilateral travel corridor with no restrictions, no quarantine, no fixed itinerary – the only requirement being testing.

The date of the opening has yet to be announced but both sides said it could be “within weeks” and you could almost hear the cheering on both sides of the South China Sea when the news set social media networks ablaze. This is a massive breakthrough for travel – it’s the first no-restriction international travel corridor opened between countries in the region, based on testing, since the coronavirus pandemic closed borders in Asia seven months ago.

According to this Bloomberg report, travellers must have been in Hong Kong or Singapore for 14 days before departure and will need to take mutually recognised Covid-19 tests and require negative results. More details will be released shortly.

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