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Chinese overseas tourism, which was blocked during the Corona 19 period, will resume from the 8th of next month. Since Korea is also a place of interest for you (tourists), it seems necessary to devise countermeasures such as increasing the number of flights.
China’s National Immigration Administration announced on its website on the 27th that it would “orderly restore the receipt, examination and approval of normal passport applications for Chinese nationals traveling abroad or visiting friends.”
Since the onset of COVID-19 in 2020, it has been almost impossible for Chinese people to go abroad for simple travel purposes. In particular, from last May, it stopped issuing or reissuing passports to prevent an influx of infectious diseases.
However, on the 26th, following the announcement of immigration-related quarantine mitigation policies, such as the abolition of mandatory quarantine, on the same day, it was announced that passport work for its citizens’ foreign travel would resume from the 8th of the next month. , signaling to Chinese people that it is okay to travel abroad.
Although the Chinese government announced on the 26th that it would consecutively resume overseas travel for Chinese citizens, the real-time search volume for overseas flights increased by 850% and the visa search volume by 1,000% at Tungcheng, a travel service platform company. Increase.
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In particular, the destinations most searched for by Chinese tourists on the Tung Chung site are Japan, South Korea, and Thailand, respectively, but as the Japanese government mandates corona testing for people entering from China and recommend quarantine for a week for those who are positive, the demand for travel will flock to Korea There is a possibility.
Jin Jong-hwa, director of the Beijing branch of the Korea Tourism Organization, said, “Since the Chinese government’s announcement, there have been inquiries about sending tourists to Korea.”
Chinese Yokers are expected to visit Korea in earnest, but since Korea-China-Korea routes are less than 10% of what they were before the corona, it seems urgent to increase flights.
However, with the corona spreading in China at its height and worldwide concerns about mutations from China on the rise, there is an opinion that a little more time is needed for Chinese people to seriously travel abroad.
