Travel bubbles — the limited openings of international borders as coronavirus transmission weakens in some parts of the world — are starting to spring up. Singapore has been allowing some business travel from six Chinese provinces since last month, and is looking to set up a similar arrangement with Malaysia. That’s because, in most countries, international tourism is dwarfed by the scale of domestic travel, as my colleague Clara Ferreira Marques has written about Vietnam. For instance, the airline sector is likely to benefit most from an increase in international travel. Those complexities probably explain the relatively slow progress in turning travel bubbles from proposals into reality.

Source: Hindustan Times July 23, 2020 07:13 UTC