A series of hotels declared bankruptcy, travel companies sought to "hold their breath" because of the absence of guests, famous beaches are now empty of people, leading to millions of unemployed people. That is the difficult reality of the tourism industry in many Asian countries during the Covid-19 pandemic. Facing that situation, some countries have revived the smokeless tourism industry in their own way!

Malaysia promotes domestic tourism development

According to the Director General of Tourism Malaysia. "Domestic tourism is the savior of the economy when the country is in crisis." Travel companies here also launch attractive incentives to attract people's demand for domestic tourism. Besides, the Malaysian government only allows people to travel freely after the social distancing order, the booking platform Agoda recorded Malaysia as one of the top 3 countries in Asia in terms of customers using the service. service, which recognizes the great interest of domestic tourism demand.

The "travel bubble" is a concept that appeared in May 2020, when New Zealand and Australia negotiated to allow people to freely travel between the two countries amid the pandemic without quarantine. Following Hong Kong and Singapore, eight other Asian countries (including Malaysia, China, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, India and Vietnam) are also in the process of launching a "bubble" model. travel".

Vaccine passport

The proportion of people being vaccinated globally is gradually increasing, awakening the Asian tourism industry to find solutions to attract international tourists back. Therefore, the vaccine passport can be a tool to help the tourism industry develop effectively and safely.

According to the Bangkok Post, Thailand - a country with tourism as a key economic sector - is planning to apply the vaccine passport. Through the vaccine passport, international tourists can enter and domestic people who have been vaccinated can go abroad. This type of passport could also become a mandatory “passport” for future cross-border trips.

Ngo Thanh Long