Line up for visa application two hours in advance!

The enthusiasm for outbound travel is "hurricane", the industry: spring is here!

  Wang Shuyuan China Securities Journal

  "There are still two hours before the visa center goes to work, and there are already so many people queuing up?!" Chen Hui said in surprise to the reporter of China Securities Journal.

  February 23 is the first day of appointment-free Italian visa.

At 7 o'clock in the morning, there was a long queue at the entrance of the Beijing Italian Visa Center located in Sanlitun, Chaoyang District, Beijing, and Chen Hui was one of them.

  Chen Hui told the reporter that she wanted to take her children to travel in Europe during the "May 1st" holiday, but she couldn't make an appointment before.

There is no need to make an appointment now, and I deliberately took a whole morning off, thinking of queuing up early, and rushing back to work after handing over the materials.

What she didn't expect was that there were so many people queuing up so early.

  On February 6, the restart button was pressed for domestic outbound travel.

For a time, the popularity of outbound travel "surge".

The visa centers of embassies and consulates in Beijing, Shanghai and other places are all "popular".

  Some agencies predict that the number of inbound and outbound tourists in 2023 is expected to exceed 90 million, doubling year-on-year.

Right now, the industry is stepping up preparations for the upcoming small peak of cross-border travel.

A record number of certificates

  "My friends basically have plans to go abroad for a visit in the near future." Chen Hui said, "A few friends' passports expired during the epidemic, and as soon as outbound travel was released, they couldn't wait to change their passports. Immediately start applying for a visa."

  The demand for outbound travel is fully released.

In Quanzhou, since the implementation of the national entry-exit facilitation measures on January 8, the volume of entry-exit documents has grown exponentially. From January 8 to February 21, Quanzhou’s entry-exit management department accepted a total of 59,000 entry-exit documents , which is 14 times that of the same period last year.

  In Cangzhou, as of now, the 19 acceptance points in Cangzhou have accumulatively accepted more than 10,000 cases of various entry and exit businesses, an increase of nearly 8 times year-on-year, and basically returned to the level before the epidemic.

  In Yantai, as of February 16, the 13 entry-exit reception halls of the public security organs in Yantai have accepted more than 22,000 pieces of various types of exit documents for citizens, a year-on-year increase of 15 times. Many." Li Shiyou, deputy head of the Citizen-Exit Administration Brigade of the Yantai Exit-Entry Administration Branch, said.

  A few days ago, a piece of news that "Shanghai people are queuing to go abroad" rushed into the hot search on Weibo.

According to the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau, driven by the accumulated demand for certificate replacement and reissuance in the past three years and the peak of certificate processing before and after the Spring Festival holiday, from January 9 to February 8, the Shanghai Public Security Exit and Entry Administration Department accepted a total of Chinese citizens' entry and exit. The number of certificates exceeds 380,000, a record high, and the flow of inbound and outbound passengers ranks first in the country's airports.

Among them, more than 27,000 certificates were issued on February 8, a record high in a single day.

  "Recently, everyone is rushing to renew their passports or apply for Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan endorsements. I went this morning according to my appointment time. When I arrived, there were 107 people in line in front of me." At noon on the 24th, Ms. Ma just stepped out of Shanghai. Minhang District Immigration Hall, "The process was very smooth, but it took a long time, almost two hours, but I felt that everything was worth it. I can't wait to go abroad."

Restart of outbound team tours

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The popularity of outbound travel continues to rise, and major travel agencies and online travel companies have long been gearing up, preparing to do a lot of work, and step up the development of the outbound group travel market.

  For example, Zhongxin Tourism has prepared refined and diversified in-depth travel products for the first batch of 20 pilot countries; Ctrip has launched nearly 1,200 outbound group tours and "air ticket + hotel" package products on the Ctrip platform, including group tours, semi- There are many types of self-guided tours, private tours, and packaged products for independent travel; Tongcheng Travel.com currently has hundreds of outbound and group tours and "air ticket + hotel" product lines...

  At 20:00 on February 22, Fliggy’s spring promotion kicked off, and a number of cross-border travel products were put on the shelves—just after 20:50, the hot accommodation product “Hong Kong 999 for 2 nights” has already sold out the entire contract. The weekends in March, April, and May are also fully booked; the "Guangzhou direct flight to Southeast Asia round-trip secondary card" product launched by China Southern Airlines was also sold out shortly after its launch; the "round-trip African secondary card" product launched by Kenya Airways Also sold out quickly.

Ctrip recently launched the first New Zealand outbound group departing from Shanghai on March 18, with an average price of 27,999 yuan per person, and it sold out quickly after it went on sale.

  The recent changes in international air ticket bookings also directly demonstrate the "heat value" of outbound travel.

According to Ctrip data, as of February 21, domestic outbound air ticket orders this week have increased by 30% compared to last week, and the top ten cities of popular outbound destinations are Bangkok, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taipei, London, etc. .

The industry is looking forward to the "warm spring return"

  With the optimization and adjustment of epidemic prevention and control policies, the popularity of domestic and overseas tourism has risen rapidly, and the "hurricane" mode has started.

  "In 2023, as the epidemic prevention and control policies continue to be optimized, people's tourism consumption psychology will turn from cautious to positive, and the Chinese tourism market will usher in a new trend of comprehensive recovery." Dai Bin, president of the China Tourism Academy, said, "We The forecast for the tourism economy in 2023 has been upgraded from "cautiously optimistic" to "optimistic", and it is expected that the whole year will show a trend of "steady growth and accelerated recovery", and the quarterly growth rate is expected to be higher than that of the previous quarter."

  The report released by the China Tourism Academy on the 21st predicts that the tourism market will enter a new channel of expected strengthening and supply optimization in the second quarter. The summer vacation is expected to usher in a full recovery, and summer tourism is likely to approach or even reach the level of the same period before the epidemic.

It is estimated that in 2023, the number of domestic tourists will be about 4.55 billion, a year-on-year increase of about 80%, and it will recover to about 76% of 2019.

Realize domestic tourism revenue of about 4 trillion yuan, an increase of about 95% year-on-year, and recover to about 71% of 2019.

The annual number of inbound and outbound tourists is expected to exceed 90 million, doubling year-on-year.

  On February 23, the United Nations World Tourism Organization issued an announcement saying that China's restart of outbound tourism had a positive impact on the recovery of the global tourism industry.

  According to data provided by the World Tourism Organization, China was the world's largest tourism market before the new crown epidemic.

In 2019, Chinese tourists made a total of 166 million international trips, with a total tourism expenditure of 270 billion US dollars, and most of the tourist destinations were developing economies.

The World Tourism Organization stated that the recovery of China's domestic tourism industry will create a cascading effect on other economic sectors and bring greater vitality to China and the global economy.

According to data from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China, China received 6.01 billion domestic tourists in 2019, making tourism an important driver of employment and economic growth.