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It seems that youke (Chinese tourists) can’t hide their excitement as China decided to open the border which had been tightly locked in three years. Just like the announcement by the Chinese quarantine authorities that “overseas travel of Chinese citizens will be restored in an orderly manner,” Chinese people’s interest in overseas travel is rapidly improving.
Following the announcement on the 27th that the Chinese National Health Commission (Wiganwi) and the Joint Quarantine Organization of the State Council would abolish facility quarantine and post-entry gene amplification (PCR) for overseas arrivals from the 8th from next month, foreign travelers will travel China. platform Travel-related searches have skyrocketed.
China travel platform Quenal (去哪儿) said on the same day that the number of searches on international flights increased sevenfold within 15 minutes of the announcement of the lifting of the quarantine. The most popular destinations were Thailand, Japan and South Korea. In addition, on the Tongcheng travel platform, the search volume for international flights increased by 850%, and the search volume for visas increased tenfold.
According to Trip.com, another travel platform, the search volume for foreign travel destinations increased more than 10 times within 30 minutes of reporting the news, and the search volume for international flights and foreign hotels also reached a new high in three years. . They also found that the number of searches for departures and package products for Chinese New Year, the biggest holiday, also increased by 6 times. Macau, Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand, Korea, the United States, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, and the United Kingdom were the most popular destinations in order of major travel destinations.
In the midst of such a hot interest in foreign travel, attention is paid to what will lead to a recovery in the related industry. According to the “China Outbound Travel Development Year Report (2022-2023)” recently released by the China Tourism Research Institute, the cumulative drop in outbound travel in China between 2020 and 2022 was estimated at 400 million, which caused damage to the travel out related industry in dire straits.
However, it appears that it will take some time for international flights to fully normalize. Lanxiang (蘭翔), director of the Big Data Research Institute, predicted, “The adjustment of immigration policies will favor the recovery of international flights, and the number of passengers will rebound in the short term, but it will still take time for all international flights to return to normal levels. “
He then predicted that even if travel abroad is at its peak, international flight prices will remain higher than before Corona 19 for the time being. “In the process of normalizing the demand and supply for international air tickets, international flight prices will rise and then gradually fall and be adjusted,” said Director Lan Xiang.
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