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Covid-19 and Tourism in Southeast Asia

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dc.contributor.authorJennifer Kim Lian Chan
dc.contributor.authorVictor T. King
dc.contributor.editorProfessor Lian Kwen Fee
dc.contributor.editorAssoc. Professor Paul J. Carnegie
dc.date.accessioned2025-11-10T04:11:50Z
dc.date.available2025-11-10T04:11:50Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractDuring the past two decades the Southeast Asian region has experienced a range of major crises. Its substantial tourism industry has often taken the brunt of these difficult and testing events, from natural and environmental calamities, epidemics and pandemics, downturns and financial slumps in the world economy, terrorism and political conflict. The latest peril, this time on a global scale, is the ‘Novel Coronavirus’ (Covid-19/SARS-CoV-2) pandemic; it has already had serious consequences for Southeast Asia and its tourism development and will continue to do so. Since the SARS epidemic of 2002-2004 the Southeast Asian economies have become increasingly integrated into those of East Asia (China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong). China’s contribution to tourism in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has grown exponentially. This paper surveys some of the most significant literature on crises, and specifically Covid-19, to gauge their consequences for tourism in Southeast Asia. By comparing experiences across the region, we highlight the issues raised by the over dependence of some countries on visitor arrivals from East Asia, the problems generated in certain cases by multiple, sequential or coinciding crises, and some of the responses to these. A common focus of crises research has been on dramatic and usually unpredictable natural disasters and on human-generated global economic downturns but less attention has been given to disease and contagion, which is both natural and socio-cultural in its origins and effects. In the case of Covid-19, it is a situation that evokes a pre-crisis period of normality, a liminal transition and a post-crisis ‘new normality’.
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dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.ubd.edu.bn/handle/123456789/3622
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherInstitute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam
dc.relation.ispartofseries57
dc.subject.lcshCOVID-19 (Disease)—Economic aspects—Southeast Asia
dc.subject.lcshTourism—Effect of COVID-19 pandemic—Southeast Asia
dc.subject.lcshTourism—Government policy—Southeast Asia
dc.subject.lcshCrises—Economic aspects—Southeast Asia
dc.subject.lcshPandemics—Social aspects—Southeast Asia
dc.titleCovid-19 and Tourism in Southeast Asia
dc.typeWorking Paper
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