Chinanews client, Beijing, December 23 (Reporter Li Jinlei) After the epidemic, will tourism be good?
Qunar CEO Chen Gang told Chinanews.com's "New China Observation" column that the third to fifth tier cities will usher in a wave of tourism.
Chen Gang believes that after the epidemic, the international and domestic situation has changed. There is no disorderly expansion of capital and no overseas markets. Everyone is focusing on the domestic market.
For users, this is a good thing.
"For us practitioners, competition has intensified. Each company is bound to increase investment and create more value for users." Chen Gang said.
"Since the outbreak of the epidemic, the tourism industry has indeed experienced relatively large damage. However, I think tourism will become a very large expenditure that cannot be replaced in the future." Chen Gang said.
He said that based on experience, once the per capita GDP of a city exceeds 10,000 US dollars, the "I want to see the world" tourism boom will continue for 10 to 20 years.
This has been going on for many years in many new first-tier cities in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.
In Chen Gang's view, the broader growth is not beyond first-tier cities, nor new first-tier cities, but from 293 prefecture-level cities in China, that is, third to fifth-tier cities, what everyone calls "sinking markets."
This also requires Qunar to insist on "quality and low prices" and firmly provide consumers with more cost-effective tourism products.
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