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With few entry tests, SE Asia may gain most from China's travel revival

Tourists wait to check in for flights, ahead of an expected influx of Chinese tourists as Covid restrictions are dismantled, at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport on Wednesday. (Reuters photo)

SINGAPORE: Southeast Asia's tourist economies are set to be leading beneficiaries of China's scrapping of travel bans as they have steered clear of the Covid-19 tests before entry that Europe, Japan and the United States have imposed on Chinese visitors.

Even as the virus tears through its 1.4 billion people, the world's second largest economy is opening its borders from Sunday, a move that promises to unleash a wave of travellers eager for diversion after three years of strict curbs at home.

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