After the full liberalization, outbound tourism continued to heat up, and the number of outbound air tickets ordered at some international airports actually increased by nearly 10 times, it seems that the three-year lockdown has really suffocated many people.
So many Chinese tourists are naturally the red eyes of many popular tourist destinations.
Many local and national governments have introduced corresponding policies to prepare for the tide of Chinese tourists.
Among them, the most popular is our friendly neighbor Thailand, and the news seems to give the answer to why everyone is so keen to go to Thailand.
At the end of 2022, shortly after we announced our full liberalization, Thailand immediately introduced favorable policies for Chinese tourists.
Thailand's Minister of Tourism and Sports Phiphat announced:
Thailand is willing to vaccinate Chinese tourists entering Thailand free of charge if they need it.
And the reasons given by the Thai government are also very substantial:
The price of the vaccine has fallen, and a shot only costs hundreds of baht, while a Chinese tourist spends an average of 40,000 baht in Thailand, even if the government only charges a 7% tax, which is very cost-effective.
Yesterday, January 9th, there was a news report:
Thailand's Suvarnabhumi Airport welcomed China's first Chinese flight to Thailand after the adjustment of China's entry and exit policy, and Thai Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health Anutin greeted the scene.
At the same time, Thailand also announced that it will no longer restrict the entry of unvaccinated tourists, and the new policy is effective immediately.
In stark contrast, there is another popular tourist destination: South Korea.
Recently, there have been media reports: Chinese tourists entering South Korea are required to walk through the quarantine channel alone, and each person is also hung with a striking yellow sign.
This "special treatment" makes people feel very uncomfortable. Many people even think that this is an insult and are determined not to go to South Korea.
There is another place, the recent tourism popularity, very unexpected, that is, Hong Kong.
On January 8, the first day of opening, there were only 5,046 mainland tourists entering Hong Kong.
On the same day, the figure in Macau was 32,000, and this figure is still as of 5 p.m. that day, and the total number of people for the whole day will be higher.
After disembarking at Hong Kong Airport, many mainland tourists said that they were not as lively as they expected, and even a little deserted. On the contrary, although the number of people going south is small, the number of people going north from Hong Kong has increased sixfold.
Local netizens in Hong Kong laughed at themselves online:
Everyone else knows that you are expensive in those medicines, and you don't come to make lamb (meaning: lamb to be slaughtered)!
Some netizens once gave such an image metaphor about Hong Kong:
The son that parents love the most is the most rebellious and disobedient.
Indeed, many previous reports have broken the hearts of mainland tourists, which has also had a great impact on Hong Kong's economy, and Hong Kong's fall from the throne of the world's financial center last year is a good lesson.
It's all our own people, and we still hope it gets better, but you have to fight for it yourself.
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