Two pieces of news, roughly indicating the government's policy on the relaxation of quarantine measures and the lifting of travel bans in the near future: Short-term business people have been quarantined for 5 days and tested negative, and are expected to be released for 2 to 3 days (Central News Agency, May 16, 2020) Lin Jialong: In the second half of the year, China Travel will be launched first to prepare for the opening of the country (Economic Daily , May /16, 2020) Highlights of these two news stories: Business people who enter the country for a short period of time will be quarantined for 5 days and are asymptomatic and have a negative test. In the near future, the Tourism Bureau will first promote international tourism, and then open international tourism. At present, the possible direction of relevant government policies seems to bring dawn to the tourism industry. However, looking at the development of the global epidemic and the response measures taken by companies on the front line of the global outbreak,
I am afraid that looking forward to Taiwan's "post-epidemic" period at this stage, there will be more disappointment than optimism. Section on International Business People Since the epidemic in Taiwan is very well controlled, we cannot generally feel the so-called work from home state. But in the front lines of the outbreak in Europe and the United States, the use of digital technology to work remotely from home has almost become the norm. In other words, wedding photo retouching services until the end of the epidemic (whether it is the emergence of therapeutic drugs or vaccines, or the mysterious disappearance of the virus), cross-border business activities will still be reduced as much as possible, and the needs of cross-border business activities will be solved by means of technology. In addition, as long as the entry quarantine measures are still in place, business owners or business travelers have to pay extra travel costs (time and money) and risk their lives.
Therefore, despite the opening of the entry of international business travelers, as long as the quarantine measures are in place, it can be expected that there will not be a large number of business travelers. Therefore, the tourism-related industries (airlines, high-end hotels, DMOs , exhibition-related, etc.) that used international business travelers as the main source of tourists will still not be able to usher in the dawn. About the anti-epidemic tourism promoted by the Tourism Bureau Also because the domestic epidemic is very well controlled, CITS will be able to restore demand more quickly. However, based on the number of tourists and the amount of consumption in the past, there is only a slight growth every year. Most of the behavior patterns of CITS appear during two days off on a week or two consecutive holidays. Therefore, no matter how explosive the retaliatory consumption is, there are certain limits and bottlenecks.