A hoped-for boom in Chinese tourism in Asia over next week’s Lunar New Year holidays looks set to be more of a blip as most travelers opt to stay inside China if they go anywhere.
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“I think the tourists will return around the end of February or early March at the earliest,” said Sisdivachr Cheewarattaporn, president of the Thai Travel Agents Association, noting that many Chinese lack passports, flights are limited and tour operators are still gearing up to handle group travel. That worry is keeping many would-be vacation goers at home even after China relaxed “Zero Covid” restrictions that sought to isolate all cases with mass testing and onerous quarantines.
According to Trip.com, a major travel services company, overseas travel bookings for the Jan. 21 to 27 Lunar New Year holidays were up more than five-fold. But that was up from almost nothing the year before, when China’s borders were closed to most travelers. Tourism Australia forecasts that spending by international travelers will surpass pre-pandemic levels within a year’s time. Before the disruptions of Covid-19, Chinese accounted for almost one-third of tourist spending, nearly $9 billion.
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