More Covid Restrictions Fall Across Asia
Skift Take
- Covid restrictions continue to fall like dominoes. Hong Kong came through with their plan to end their hotel quarantine policy, putting it into effect before October Golden Week, beginning today.
- Macau’s hotel occupancy rate fell to just 33.3% in August, down -1.1 percentage points year over year.
- DBS said Singapore’s hospitality industry is on track for a “spectacular” second half of 2022.
Covid restrictions continue to fall like dominoes. Hong Kong came through with their plan to end their hotel quarantine policy, putting it into effect before October Golden Week, beginning today. Arrivals will no longer need to isolate themselves in a hotel, instead being on the honor system with a three-day self-monitoring period. There will be no more preflight PCR tests needed, just a rapid one. Under pressure from everywhere else, Macau’s chief executive finally threw the casinos a bone, saying Macau will reinstate both package tours to Macau and, more importantly, eVisas under the Individual Visit Scheme. They will not save Golden Week, saying it will go into effect in November. The first phase will reopen for four provinces and one city in Guangdong, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Fujian. Japan confirmed they would lift Covid restrictions, relaxing border control measures to be on par with the US as of October 11. If they are copying the US Co
