Chinanews.com, Guangzhou, January 8th, title: cross-border tourism has fully restarted and the "return" of Chinese tourists has brought new vitality to the global tourism industry
Chinanews reporter Cheng Jingwei
In the early morning of January 8, China Southern Airlines flight CZ312 from Toronto to Guangzhou landed smoothly at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport.
According to China Southern Airlines, this is the first international flight to land in mainland China after the implementation of the "Class B and B Control" overall plan and the new entry policy of the Civil Aviation Administration of China.
Passengers on this flight are also the first batch of beneficiaries of entry-free nucleic acid testing and entry quarantine measures since the new crown epidemic in the past three years.
Starting from 00:00 on January 8, as China's policy of canceling entry nucleic acid testing and centralized isolation, and optimizing the measures for personnel exchanges between the Mainland and Hong Kong and Macau came into effect, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing and other airports ushered in the first batch of overseas travelers after the optimization and adjustment of epidemic prevention policies. flight.
According to data from the mainland online travel platform "Tongcheng Travel", on the platform, the number of inbound and outbound air ticket orders for travel on January 8 increased by 628% year-on-year, setting a peak since March 2020.
Among them, inbound flight orders accounted for 48%.
From January 8th to the eve of the Spring Festival, favorable entry policies superimposed the demand for returning home during the Spring Festival, which promoted a sharp increase in the number of inbound air ticket orders on the "Travel with the Same Trip" platform.
According to the big data of "same journey travel", the popular destinations of inbound flights on January 8 are Shanghai, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Chengdu and Nanning.
Among them, air tickets for some popular inbound direct flights from Seoul to Nanjing in South Korea, Phnom Penh in Cambodia to Nanning, and Bangkok to Guiyang in Thailand were sold out a week before departure on January 8.
Outbound flights also ushered in a wave of small peaks.
According to data from the "Travel on the same journey" platform, on January 8, outbound tourists who booked air tickets through the platform flew to more than 100 cities in 53 countries and regions around the world.
Popular outbound destination countries include Cambodia, South Korea, the United States, Japan, Singapore, etc.
According to data from Ctrip, another mainland online travel platform, on the platform, since the release of the overall plan for the "Class B and B Management" on December 27, as of January 7, the number of cross-border air ticket bookings by mainland tourists has increased by 190% year-on-year. , The number of visa business orders increased by nearly 18 times year-on-year.
Among them, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, etc. have made the list of popular flight destinations.
According to reports, since December 27, on the "Ctrip Travel" platform, Singapore visa business orders have increased by more than 30 times year-on-year, and the month-on-month increase has reached 123%; Malaysia visa business orders have increased by nearly 100% month-on-month; Thailand tourism market is also popular Among the overseas hotel orders booked by mainland tourists for more than 20 days, Thailand hotel orders accounted for almost "half of the country", accounting for 44%.
Many countries welcome Chinese tourists.
Malaysia recently estimated that it will receive 1.5 million to 2 million Chinese tourists in 2023.
Relevant industry players in Singapore estimate that the return of Chinese tourists will bring an additional 2 billion Singapore dollars in revenue to Singapore throughout the year.
In this regard, Shen Jiani, a senior researcher at the Strategic Research Center of Ctrip Research Institute, analyzed that with the liberalization of entry policies and the orderly resumption of outbound travel, Chinese tourists' travel confidence will be rebuilt at an accelerated pace, and tourism consumption confidence will be restored at an accelerated pace.
The "return" of Chinese tourists will bring new vitality to the global tourism industry.
"Especially for the recent Asian tourism market, it will play a significant role in boosting." Shen Jiani said.
As the largest online travel platform in the mainland, Ctrip will soon start overseas travel cooperation with Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Maldives, Australia, the United States, Japan, South Korea and other places to jointly promote the accelerated recovery of the global tourism industry.
Zhao Wenzhi, president of Guangzhou Guangzhi International Travel Agency, said that with the implementation of a number of favorable policies and measures, superimposed on factors such as Spring Festival travel and winter vacations, the recovery of the tourism market will be accelerated, and tourism operators will do their best for the recovery of the industry, including the restart of outbound travel business. Make relevant preparations and serve more Chinese tourists to set off to the world again.
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