Post-Pandemic Revival of Tourism in Select South and Southeast Asian Countries: Key Learnings
摘要
The tourism sector occupies a pivotal role in galvanizing and embedding multi-sectoral cooperation, including people-to-people contacts, business, and entrepreneurial opportunities, student exchanges, conferences, and events. This sector merits utmost policy attention. Tourism has emerged as a key sector in many countries as a growing source of foreign exchange earnings besides alleviation of a disequilibrium in balance of payments and employment and income generation (Seddighi and Theocharous 2002; Hui et al. 2007; Samimi and Sadeghi 2011).