Coordinating Deputy of Tourism and Creative Economy

Global Tourism and Creative Economy News Update

Monday, 3rd May 2021

Top News

1 En.nhandan.org.vn.com / May 2, 2021 / Positive

Vietnam’s digital economy to hit US$52 billion by 2025
Vietnam’s digital economy will likely reach US$52 billion in value by 2025, according to the e-
Conomy SEA 2019 report by Google, Temasek and Bain & Company. With the gross
merchandise value (GMV) of its internet economy accounting for over 5% of the country's
GDP in 2019, Vietnam is emerging as the most digital of all economies in the region, the
report said. The report noted all sectors except travel continued to grow in 2020, of which
transport and food, and online media grew 50% and 18% compared to 2019. Only online
travel dropped 28% in terms of GMV, but is expected to grow 25% by 2025.

2 Epaper.chinadaily.com / May 3, 2021 / Neutral

Domestic holiday travel off and running on first day
The China Ministry of Transport's preliminary estimate showed that the country handled 56.4
million passenger trips on Saturday as the five-day May Day holiday kicked off, up 111.5
percent year-on-year. Roughly 54.6 million passenger trips were made in the country on May
1, 2019. The projection made by the ministry before this year's May Day holiday showed that
265 million passenger trips are expected to occur from May 1 to May 5, close to the traffic
recorded during the same period in 2019. Domestic flight bookings are consistently increasing,
where according to China Eastern Airlines, during the May Day holiday, its average daily flight
volume will exceed 2,700, compared to 2,650 in the same period of 2019.

News Update

3 Traveldailymedia.com / May 3, 2021 / Negative

Thailand’s latest quarantine blooper puts tourism in jeopardy

4 Scoop.co.nz / May 3, 2021 / Neutral

Cooks Travel Bubble Almost A Year Too Late

5 Bbc.com / May 3, 2021 / Neutral

The unsolved mystery of Sri Lanka’s ‘Stargate’

6 Thestar.com / May 3, 2021 / Neutral

Hope and worry surround travel passport

7 Stuff.co.nz / May 3, 2021 / Positive

Cautious optimism emerges from SMEs after grim year

Daily Media Monitoring Report by Ghizadhia Amira – CMMIA Public Relations

8 Wionews.com / May 3, 2021 / Neutral
New Zealand-Australia travel bubble faces disruption due to fresh Covid cases

9 Thethaiger.com / May 2, 2021 / Neutral

Covid-19 again lowers Thai economic growth forecast to 2.3%

10 Gulfnews.com / May 2, 2021 / Neutral

Kuwait: Travel agents incur over KD100 million in losses due to COVID-19

11 Hoteliermiddleeast.com / May 2, 2021 / Neutral

Holiday home company looking for investors

12 Koreatechdesk.com / May 2, 2021 / Neutral

What made news this week in the South Korea startup ecosystem?

Daily Media Monitoring Report by Ghizadhia Amira – CMMIA Public Relations