China, which remains off-limits for tourists, the US, the Philippines and Indonesia are now the world’s only major tourist markets whose borders are fully shut to unvaccinated visitors, barring age or health-related exceptions. Photo: Bloomberg
China, which remains off-limits for tourists, the US, the Philippines and Indonesia are now the world’s only major tourist markets whose borders are fully shut to unvaccinated visitors, barring age or health-related exceptions. Photo: Bloomberg

Coronavirus: China, Philippines, and Indonesia are last Covid holdouts in Asia to unvaccinated travellers

  • Phocuswright projects that China’s travel market won’t return to pre-pandemic levels until 2024
  • With much of Asia only starting to reopen, holiday-starved tourists have looked elsewhere and booked European holidays, one analyst said