Three ASEAN member states extended visa-free entry to additional passports this quarter, continuing a regional loosening that has run quietly against the global trend toward pre-travel authorisation. Typical permitted stays run to 30 days.
The moves are reciprocal in spirit if not always in form, and they compound: each addition widens the practical map for the intra-regional traveller and the long-haul visitor alike. For destinations, the calculus is demand, visa friction is the cheapest lever available to move arrivals.
The open map is now materially wider than a year ago. The closed map, tracked alongside, is not shrinking everywhere.