2023年10月19日
Mark O’Neill
EJ Insight
China struggles to attract foreign tourists
In 2019, 31.88 million foreigners came to China for tourism and spent US$77.1 billion. In the first half of this year, just about 478,000 came, 5.6 per cent of the total for the same period in 2019.
The largest drop was in visitors from Western countries, Japan and South Korea, the traditional markets for China's inbound tourism. They have been replaced in part by tourists from Russia, Mongolia, Myanmar and Vietnam, who have lower spending power.
China is struggling to attract foreign tourists, even after the lifting of Covid restrictions and resumption of international air travel. ...
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