wave to the giant Mickey Mouse mascot, but not get close enough for a jolly selfie. Such are the rules at Disneyland Shanghai, which reopened on May 11th. Visitor numbers are capped at 30% of the sprawling park’s capacity. Meanwhile the Forbidden City in Beijing can now take only 5,000 visitors a day, just 6% of its normal cap.
China is leading the way out of travel lockdowns—but still largely within its own borders. Over the Labour Day weekend at the start of May, some 115m Chinese went on domestic holidays, a healthy 60% of last year’s number. Capacity on Chinese domestic flights was down by only 10% year-on-year in the first week of May. But foreign flights are still rare: each carrier gets one flight to every destination once a week.
Whether—and how fast—the Chinese rediscover their yen for venturing abroad matters a lot to the rest of the world. Once a tourism tiddler, China is now a giant: no country sends more tourists overseas. The surge of Chinese travellers accounts for a quarter of the rise in global spending on tourism since 2000. The 150m foreign trips by mainlanders in 2018 added up to 10% of all global departures, up from 1% in two decades.
Purveyors of services beyond aviation and accommodation depend on it. Chinese tourists spend lavishly on overseas jaunts, around double the global average. Last year they accounted for 81% of South Korea’s duty-free sales. Over a third of all the luxury baubles sold by the likes of Louis Vuitton and Gucci are bought by Chinese splurgers, according to Bain, a consultancy. And over two-thirds of that is overseas, notably in Europe.
Gloria Guevara of the World Travel and Tourism Council, a trade body, says Chinese may feel a whiff of stigmatisation thanks to the pandemic. “I think the Chinese will continue to travel and will travel internationally at the right time [but] at the beginning will want to travel to countries where they feel more welcome.” Alternatively, once the virus has largely been eradicated at home, Chinese tourists may decide that they are less keen to visit places where the contagion may still be lurking.
AlbertoBernalLe Yeah sure, but first you have to disappear the CPofCN from the planet
There are too many COVIDー19 outbreaks in china to allow Chinese tourists back into the world now.
Just...NO
Speaking from experience. The Chinese tourist is a poor traveller. Bucket bus trips. Maximum 7 days. There are much better valued travellers than the majority of Chinese. 🤔
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If so many countries hadn’t outsourced manufacturing to China, reliance on them bringing $$ back in via tourism wouldn’t be required.
Not until China is dealt with
The Chinese tourists have travelled madly inside China after the lockdown. You need to get your facilities maintained in case you open up. Be aware that the Chinese tourists are impatient with poor quality food. Cook properly.
... and Wuhan virus destroys it all
No thanks
The government of the PRC accounts for the bulk of atrocities committed in the world. Even Hitler and Stalin paled by comparison. It poses an existential threat to its minorities, dissenters and the free world. We don't need their custom - we need to wean ourselves from the PRC
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So what? the Dynamics and demographic of travellers can change and will change... Emerging markets like India/ Indonesia / Brazil / Russia / Phillipines etc. can always supplement the demand... ChinaMustPay China_is_terrorist Chinazi
So we should risk our lives for some tourism gain, no thank you. They can find another country as a customer base. Their government are not trustable at any rate now. Have no issue with a Chinese person but I cannot get over the fact that they sent infected tests to UK, I mean...
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On the bright side, still 75% is there.
They are going to take their money somewhere else. We don’t deserve to be visited by anyone. We are a shithole.
It's so interesting，the world is blaming China but they need China to rocover the world it self.
China ppl can travel as such bcoz of their rise in middle income group living standard. If every countries in the world increase the livelihood of their citizen significantly then everyone can travels even until JUPITER!
Not just tourism but also trade & commerce. If countries want to penalise China for the virus (as they should) and avoid Chinese hegemony of the world, they must be prepared for its adverse consequence on their economies. People must accept that there is NO GAIN WITHOUT PAIN.
Yes... with OUR money. Thanks Congress and greedy corporations
Half of them are spies. Now decide if 'their custom is needed' ~
However, Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, Roma, Venice & Florence would welcome a reduction of 40% of Chinese tourists to regain some of their European look on the streets, museums & cathedrals, which are too crowded by Chinese since 2000
Hell no, we dont wanna face racism.
Sure but will they flock to NY or Italy or Brazil? I doubt it, regardless of how great their own situation is.
Have you heard that China is running out of their FX reserve? There will not be as many Chinese tourists. Thank God!
Well how China emerged before all lockdowns has already affected global tourism!
Do you know how the private fortunes in China have being built? Being in the right place, when any of those companies became private to be able to deal with world companies, was the lottery for the people that managed those public ones... So, basically, from legal corruption?
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I don’t need their money at the expense of other people’s liberty. Fuck China.
After destroying world they can't be in peace . GOD looks everything.
i agree
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Disneyland is so much more magical and fun, when breathing through a face mask.
I disagree
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