Asia Regional Integration Center

Keeping Asian tourism ablaze requires strategic actions and deeper regional collaboration.

Deeper regional cooperation, as well as stronger investment facilitation, can help mitigate the effects of geopolitical risks on foreign investment in Asia and the Pacific.

Strengthening regional cooperation through trade agreements could mitigate the effects of global uncertainties.

Stronger cooperation in physical and institutional connectivity is essential in enhancing  tourism resilience.

Digitalization contributes to resilient remittance inflows, setting the path to lower remittance costs and greater financial inclusion.

Trade and financial transactions continue being performed largely in US dollars. Over three-fourths of trade are in US dollars, while roughly 50% of financial transactions are in US dollars.