Four ways the online travel and tourism sector in Southeast Asia will change for good
Domestic travel and tourism, local business travel and budget leisure trips will be the first parts of the industry to recover. Governments in Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand and Japan are doing their best to encourage this with Asian governments throwing hard cash at encouraging domestic tourism. Singapore is launching a $32.4 million domestic tourism campaign, Japan is offering more than $12 billion in travel subsidies to boost tourism, Thailand has just launched a $641 million scheme to boost domestic tourism through subsidies on accommodation, transport and e-vouchers that can be used for food and other services, and Vietnam has since April been encouraging locals to explore their own country with discounted fares and increased domestic flights.