Asia's gradual easing of international travel curbs is proving a welcome relief for the region's hard-hit tourism operators slowly opening up to visitors from around the world - with one giant exception. China, previously the world's largest outbound tourism market, is keeping international air capacity at just 2% of pre-pandemic levels and has yet to relax tight travel restrictions as it sticks to zero tolerance for COVID-19. That has left a $255 billion annual spending hole in the global tourism market for operators such as Thailand's Laguna Phuket to try and fill. Foreign tourists are seen next to the Reclining Buddha at Wat Pho, a day after country's reopening campaign which is a part of the government's plan to jump start the pandemic-hit tourism sector in Bangkok, Thailand,...
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