Nearly a third of total job losses in five Asian countries were linked to tourism, with an estimated 1.6 million jobs lost, reports Bloomberg citing research from the International Labour Organisation. Data from Brunei, Mongolia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam showed that job losses in tourism-related sectors in 2020 were four times greater than in non-tourism industries. “Even with countries in the region focusing heavily on vaccinations and designing strategies to slowly re-open borders, jobs and working hours in the tourism-related sector are likely to remain below their pre-crisis numbers in Asia–Pacific countries into next year,” said Chihoko Asada-Miyakawa, ILO assistant director general and regional director for Asia and the Pacific.