Asia's Travel Recovery Could Look Like This

International visitor arrivals into Asia between 2022 and 2023 are projected to grow by 100 percent, highlighting the usual S-curve as demand peaks and then returns to more normal growth rates over time.

That’s according to a new Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) report, which examines the trends and forecasts for foreign inbound visitors into and across the region over the three-year period covering 2022-2024.

The PATA report envisages mild, medium and severe scenarios to pan the recovery of tourism in the region.

By 2024, international visitor arrivals into Asia are expected to exceed 2019 levels under the mild scenario and come close to parity under the medium scenario. The severe scenario, however, predicts that arrival numbers into and across Asia in 2024, will reach just 69 percent of 2019.

The parameters determining the three scenarios include containment