Taiwan's tourism industry hopes for relaxed border controls in a few months' time

Taiwan has sealed off its borders to tourists except those from Palau and majority of business travellers since Covid-19 breached its doors in 2020. - AFP

TAIPEI (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Tseng Ying-chi has not gone to work in nearly two years. Before the pandemic, the 37-year-old was a tour guide who led groups of Taiwanese tourists through Europe, and was overseas for over 200 days a year.

Now, he's waiting for the government to relax border and travel restrictions so that tour groups from Taiwan can travel abroad again.