Vendors waiting for customers at the main tourist market in Luang Prabang.
Elephant parks unvisited, curios at markets unsold as tuk-tuks sit idle; the Mekong is absorbing billions of dollars of losses from a collapse in Chinese tourism since the outbreak of the deadly Covid-19 novel coronavirus. - AFP
"We haven't had any Chinese for 10 days since they closed the road from Yunnan," says Ong Tau, 47, from behind her stall of fruit shakes in the temple-studded Laotian colonial town of Luang Prabang.Tour guides, mall workers and restaurant staff are all feeling the burn as Chinese -- the world's biggest travellers -- stay at home in the middle of a global health crisis.
"We don't know how to protect ourselves," he added."The government doesn't tell people anything... so maybe less Chinese is a good thing for now." "People are afraid to visit," he said."If it stays like this, I will have to get a loan from the bank." Thailand anticipates shedding five million tourists this year, taking with them"250 billion baht in revenue", according to Don Nakornthab, director of economic policy at Bank of Thailand.
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