Chinese tourists watch the flyboard show by the beach of Hon Tam Resort in Nha Trang, Vietnam. Photographer: Linh Pham/Getty Images

By Randy Thanthong-Knight, Harry Suhartono
and Xuan Quynh Nguyen
September 6, 2019,

From quiet beaches in Bali to empty rooms in Hanoi’s hotels, pangs from China’s economic malaise and weakening yuan are being felt across Southeast Asia’s vacation belt.

A boom in Chinese outbound travel in recent years that stoked tourism across Southeast Asia is now in reverse gear. The abrupt decline of Chinese travelers is becoming a painful lesson for nations such as Thailand and Indonesia that had become overly dependent on Asia’s top economy.

The pullback now threatens the tourism industry with pockets of overcapacity, after companies and local governments doubled down and poured millions of dollars into expanding resorts, hotels and travel facilities.

Enamored with the sights made famous in hit movies such as Summer Holiday -- a 2000 Chinese romantic comedy film set on Malaysia’s palm-fringed Redang Island -- Chinese travelers became the biggest group of visitors to the region, adding $403.7 billion to its gross domestic product in 2019.

In Bali, the tourism promotion board’s deputy chairman, Ngurah Wijaya, sees the hotspot as a victim of its own success. “Internal problems like traffic jams are among the main causes of the decline of Chinese tourists,” he said, adding that those who are still coming are staying fewer days and spending less. “It also seems like they have started to get bored with Bali.”

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However much Chinese tourists spend, it's not worth it.

jaynewcastle wrote: ↑Sat Sep 07, 2019 10:51 pm " Chinese travelers . . . adding . . . to its gross"

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Just when Sihanoukville depends soley on Chinese tourists - this news!!!!!

Putting your eggs all in one basket !!!!!!

The trade war is not settled and if it was to deepen the Chinese will stay home.