![]() Only now, at the end of the year, is the tourist sector beginning to cautiously reopen a few destinations to fully vaccinated overseas visitors, starting with Phu Quoc, a resort island in the Gulf of Thailand not too dissimilar to Phuket. After being relatively successful in fighting Covid in 2020, the Vietnamese government was late in rolling out a vaccination programme. Vietnam, however, has remained tightly shut. ![]() In July, the Thai government announced a ‘Sandbox’ scheme which allowed vaccinated foreign tourists to spend two weeks in quarantine on the holiday island of Phuket before being allowed to travel freely throughout the rest of the country. As China still maintains strict Covid restrictions, experts forecast China’s outbound tourist market will not be restored until 2024. And 2020 was not that great, either: 3.8 million visitors as against 18 million in 2019.Ī large proportion of foreign tourists in Vietnam, as well as other countries in the region, are from China. The number of foreign visitors to Vietnam during the first nine months of 2021 was, at only 114,500, down 97 per cent from the same period last year. ![]() The tourism sector made up a fifth of pre-pandemic Thailand’s gross domestic product, and in Vietnam this was 12 per cent. Of Vietnam’s GDP pre-pandemic came from the tourism sectorīoth countries rely heavily on tourism, with the tourist season running from October through to January.
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