Deadline for Asian tourism industry’s recovery in 2010

With the onset of the worldwide financial crisis, Asia has been on the verge of keeping their act together. Despite the numerous difficulties experienced by the economy, they remained optimistic that recovery would become possible by 2010.

For this year alone, the Pacific Asia Travel Association anticipates the decrease in travelling for an estimated four percent. Aside from the global financial crisis, the said difficulty may also be attributed to the fact that health issues came in hand. Swine flu was regarded to be one of the tourist’s scares of the year, and have contributed much to the decrease of tourists within Asia.

In this light, PATA director, John Koldowski, stated that the abovementioned factors were the primary reasons for the decrease in tourism. He added that despite the numerous changes employed, the perception of others is still difficult to alter. Although some of the passengers would still go on with their choice to travel, it will come as no surprise that they would still be nervous and scared of their predicament.

In Thailand alone, the decrease was felt accordingly. Instead of anticipating 14 million passengers, the numbers decreased by 2 million. The decrease was also affected by the numerous protests and rebellious violence from the provinces in the south. This, however, also led to the foreclosure of the airports in Bangkok and the cancellation of the leaders’ meeting in April.