Originally Posted by
lsquare
I have no doubt it's going to happen. The Asian countries want American tourism dollars. Most Americans will be fully vaccinated by the end of the year. China and the rest of the APAC countries are insane if they want to keep their borders closed.
The amount of money spent by American tourists in China is dwarfed by the amount of money spent by Chinese tourists abroad. So from a purely financial point-of-view there is no incentive for China to open up to tourism.
Of course the border politics is much more complicated than just tourism and it probably doesn't even figure in the calculus of when to reopen.