Southeast Asia Travel Is Catching Up at Last as Covid Curbs Ease
- Bookings rising to tourist hotspots like Singapore, Thailand
- ‘April has been a very important month,’ Check-in Asia says
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Southeast Asia is finally, tentatively throwing off the shackles of Covid and reopening for travel, with airlines filling an increasing number of seats as holiday-starved masses arrange overseas vacations for the first time in two years.
While the region lags other places such as North America and Europe that reopened sooner, the upward momentum gathered pace in April. Ticket bookings are rising as popular tourist destinations like Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia allow quarantine-free entry for vaccinated travelers again.