Southeast Asia and Russia in Search of New Connectivity

... Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was actively developing tourism as one of the drivers of regional economic growth. Since 1992, ASEAN has taken deliberate steps to promote the region as a single tourism destination. As of 2019, the tourism sector contributed ... ... and forms of regional cooperation in this area even before the pandemic was over. However, the recovery of tourist flows from Russia, which the key countries in the region were counting on to revitalize their economies, faced new challenges triggered by the imposition of Western sanctions on Russia after February 2022. The most serious factors of the connectivity gap were logistics and finance. Although ...