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Asia has a slower rate of international tourism than other regions

Tourism in Thailand may be on the rise, but compared to other regions of the world, Southeast Asia has had a much lower return rate among international visitors. The tourist industry has fully recovered in a number of Europe’s most popular vacation locations, with some even establishing new records. Nevertheless, Asia is losing behind because of the progressive loosening of Covid-19 restrictions. The projected date for the initial full reopening of Thailand’s border is November 1, 2021, more than a year after initial preparations for the restoration of the border began. During those times, travel was difficult and expensive. In addition to the quarantines and the Thailand Pass, several Covid tests were conducted.

All pandemic restrictions were finally lifted at the start of the prior month, a very new development. Officials projected that the refurbished attraction, which reopened in November of last year, will have 15 million visitors this year. By the middle of the year, it became evident that more than half of that wasn’t going to result from our efforts. Thailand may be able to accomplish its revised goal of 10 million international tourists if they exert extra effort during the last two months of the year, during its peak season. This is a 30% drop from their early projections. And international tourism statistics were 75% lower than before the pandemic. However, Thailand is not an isolated case; it was one of the first nations to implement reopening procedures following the Covid epidemic. Recently, the Japanese government has begun to loosen restrictions on the return of international tourists. In October, they reinstated visa-free travel for a few dozen nations. The government has set a target of five trillion yen in tourism revenue, which is roughly equivalent to $34.5 billion in U.S. dollars. By the end of 2023, it is expected that foreign tourism will contribute less than half of this amount, or approximately $14 billion USD, according to revised projections. The analysts do not anticipate a full recovery until at least 2025. Even Bali, which is widely regarded as one of the best tourist destinations in the world, receives less than half as many visitors from other nations as it did before Covid. August 2019 welcomed 606,000 tourists from all over the world to the Indonesian island. In August of this year, there were only 276,000 new international arrivals, according to the statistics.

Even tiny island nations in the middle of the Pacific, such as Palau, are reporting significant declines in the number of international tourists. The absence of Chinese tourists, who once comprised a disproportionately large proportion of those traveling throughout Southeast Asia, is a significant challenge for the country, as it is for many others. A third of the tourism industry in Palau was formerly supported by Chinese nationals. According to the Guardian, only 57 Chinese nationals have entered the United Kingdom this year. As a result of China’s unwavering commitment to the policy of zero Covid, it is unlikely that massive influxes of Chinese tourists, which formerly bolstered the economies of numerous smaller nations, will return in the near future.

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