Many Asian countries are heavily dependent on Chinese tourists, whose numbers and spending power have dramatically increased in recent years. With the coronavirus outbreak, they're becoming a source of panic.
a Chinese couple’s arrest after they had allegedly sneaked their child out of quarantine at a hospital despite showing symptoms; a video clip of their detention at the airport has gone viral.
In the U.S. in 2014, several dozen members of Congress urged the Obama administration to impose bans on travel from three West African nations plagued by Ebola. No ban was enacted after public health officials and medical experts argued against it and urged calm. Tourists walk through a busy shopping street in the district of Myeongdong in central Seoul, a popular destination among Chinese visitors to the country.
Clothing boutique operator Lee Hee-sook, 55, has weathered SARS and then MERS, which originated in the Middle East and plagued South Korea in 2015.“It’s selfish individuals thinking, I only care about my survival,” she said. Most retailers, she said, “are barely hanging on, and this will destroy them.”and was expected to be slow to recover. At the same time, tourism officials elsewhere in Asia were also walking on eggshells.
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