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The COVID-19 crisis restrictions on travel and stay-at-home regulations have led to sharp decline in the ASEAN tourism industry. An integrated research is needed to understand the changes in travel behaviors of tourists seek including a shifting focus for health and safety concerns when travelling. The lack of real-time determination of tourism safe areas, hence, calls for the need to identify tourism safe zoning through implementation of ASEAN Green-Zone Travelling Network. The ASEAN Green-Zone Travelling Network is proposed to facilitate travelers' decision making to travel, enhance tourism-related business preparation and achieve government policy acceptance throughout ASEAN countries. The aim is for destinations to successfully offer a virus-free environment, risk sensitive information, aid international readiness of tourism destinations for the new norm and transform government policies support into creating new tourism hotspots. COVID-19 has accelerated and necessitated the use of technologies by both tourists and businesses with risk mitigation in mind. The digitalization, thus, serves in identifying tourism zoning. Consequently, the integrative framework guideline functions as a catalyst of innovation and a tool to build tourism resilience in crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on the global economy, including the ASEAN economy. It has added to the burden on the government to prevent the spread of the virus and restore economic conditions. MSMEs, as one of the backbones of ASEAN economies, are also feeling the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. In ASEAN, the MSME sector, which tends to be dominated by micro-enterprises, accounts for around 85–99% of the business entities affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This study's aim is to provide policy recommendations that should be carried out to internationalize MSMEs in ASEAN that can compete in the new normal era. This study used literature review and survey method for MSMEs throughout ASEAN. This research shows the importance of production networks as well as trade integration. Both of these have played an important role in driving regional growth, developing trade connectivity, and the important role of technology adoption to minimize the impact of the pandemic. Several priorities are proposed for ASEAN members; (1) to maintain the continuity of the supply chain, especially for important goods, ASEAN will need a health certificate, which is projected to become part of the quality standard in the ASEAN SME Policy index, (2) to address the manifold digital gaps that digitalization entails, and (3) to enhance the role of the private sector and other stakeholders, including the role of higher education in promoting confidence in markets, introducing new business models and opportunities, and their role in assisting post-pandemic recovery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]