Will you push the God of Wealth out?
I'm afraid no one will do that!
But South Korea this strange but did, different treatment of tourists from China, you know, Chinese tourists for South Korea is simply the existence of the "God of Wealth", Chinese tourists account for 35% of the total number of inbound tourism in South Korea, in the past about 70% of the sales of Korean department store retail from Chinese tourists, that is to say, without Chinese tourists, there is no prosperity of the Korean department store industry.
However, South Korea's approach broke the heart of the "God of Wealth".
Chinese tourists entering South Korea, must hang a small yellow card on the chest, hold it in the hand, the whole process is escorted by the South Korean Army to get luggage and do nucleic acid, a nucleic acid costs 434 yuan, or self-expense, and then locked up to the isolation point, accommodation and catering must also be paid for, the whole process feels like treating criminals.
Chinese was placed in an isolation room with no bed, no table, no stool, and Chinese could only sleep on the floor. Among them, the accommodation fee for one day of quarantine is 150,000 won, the diet is 15,000 won, and the quarantine for 1 day needs to pay about 900 yuan at your own expense.
South Korea explained that it was for epidemic prevention and was for all people entering the country from China. But according to people with long-term visas in South Korea: as long as you are Korean, or hold a long-term visa in South Korea, regardless of whether you have symptoms or not, you can leave directly without hanging a small yellow card.
In other words, South Korea's approach is clearly to discriminate against Chinese and discriminate in the name of epidemic prevention.
And Thailand's attitude towards China's "God of Wealth" is simply slapping South Korea in the face.
After China's orderly resumption of outbound tourism, Thailand made sufficient preparations to welcome China, the "god of wealth", not only to upgrade infrastructure and other services, Thai Deputy Prime Minister Anutin, Minister of Transport Sasayan, Minister of Tourism and Sports Pippa personally went to the airport to greet, distributed flower bracelets to the first batch of Chinese tourists arriving in Thailand, and raised welcome banners.
Thailand's deputy prime minister came to personally greet them, this specification is only a treatment that state guests can enjoy, and Chinese tourists do not need to arrive in Thailand without additional measures, even new crown vaccination certificates, all kinds of measures make Chinese tourists say: like celebrities walking the red carpet, feel their friendship to China.
The same is tourism, one is to hang a yellow card after arrival, do nucleic acid at their own expense of 434 yuan, be escorted by the army, and isolate at their own expense; One is that after arriving, you will be welcomed by state guests, there are no other restrictions, where will you travel?
The answer speaks for itself!
What is the cost of treating Chinese differently in South Korea?
In fact, there is a good reason why Chinese tourists are South Korea's "gods of wealth".
First of all, among the people traveling to South Korea, the number of Chinese tourists is the largest.
According to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Tourism Agency, South Korea received about 17.5 million visitors in 2019, of which 6.02 million were Chinese tourists, accounting for 35% of the total number of inbound tourists to South Korea.
Secondly, Chinese tourists spend more.
According to the Central Broadcasting Network, the average spending of Chinese tourists in Seoul, South Korea, is 6 times that of Japanese tourists, that is, 1 Chinese tourist spends up to 6 Japanese tourists in South Korea, with an average of 2.13 million won (about 11,700 yuan) spent by each Chinese tourist in South Korea, and the average cost of Japanese tourists is 330,000 won (about 1,815 yuan) per time.
Later, I checked this data source and found that the number of samples that came to this conclusion was small, only 1045 foreign tourists survey data, which was a large error.
I found another piece of information, which is the "2018 China-Japan Tourist Fact Survey" released by the Korea Tourism Organization, which shows that Japanese tourists stay in South Korea for 3.9 days, while the average stay time of Chinese tourists is 8.2 days; the average spending of Japanese tourists is 791 US dollars, while the per capita consumption of Chinese tourists is 1887 US dollars, which means that the consumption of one Chinese tourist is higher than that of two Japanese tourists.
In 2014, the Korea Industrial Research Institute released the report "The Impact of the Increase in Chinese Tourists on the Industry and Countermeasures", which reported that the consumption of Chinese tourists in South Korea in 2013 will bring 13.3 trillion won (about 78 billion yuan) to the national industry of South Korea, and also create 39 billion yuan of value-added effect and 247,000 jobs for South Korea.
From this point of view, Chinese tourists are simply the "god of wealth" for South Korea, and it is reasonable to serve Chinese tourists well and attract more Chinese tourists to come for sightseeing.
But South Korea's series of practices towards Chinese tourists have chilled Chinese tourists, and according to overseas travel orders released by domestic travel platforms during the Chinese New Year, the top ten destinations for Chinese outbound travel do not have South Korea.
Chinese tourists are no longer traveling to South Korea, which makes Korean tourism, retail and other workers feel sad. In fact, in the past three years, due to the impact of the epidemic, South Korea due to the lack of Chinese tourists, the sales performance of many shopping malls has fallen sharply, and the tourism industry has been hit hard.
Nowadays, South Korea has been waiting for Chinese tourists, but because South Korea treats Chinese tourists differently, China and South Korea have suspended the issuance of short-term visas to citizens of each other's countries, which has hit South Korea's tourism industry hard.
Some tourism practitioners in South Korea are even more worried about this, worried that this move by South Korea will chill Chinese tourists and affect the enthusiasm of Chinese tourists to travel to South Korea in the long run.
Chinese tourists are an important pillar of South Korea's tourism industry, and without Chinese tourists, the number of foreign tourists in South Korea will plummet by 35%, a gap that no one country can fill. More importantly, tourism is only one aspect, Chinese tourists will also spend money after coming to South Korea, which also has a profound impact on the performance of airlines, duty-free shops and cosmetics companies, so these companies are also very worried that Chinese tourists will not visit South Korea from now on.
South Korean President Yoon Seok-yue also panicked and quickly asked the South Korean Foreign Ministry to fully explain the South Korean position to the Chinese side, but did not relax the discriminatory treatment of Chinese tourists, which could not win any goodwill from Chinese tourists, and the enthusiasm of Chinese tourists to South Korea has further declined.
Many countries around the world welcome Chinese tourists
In fact, except for a few countries, many countries around the world have welcomed the return of Chinese tourists, and after China announced the new crown virus "Class B tube", many national tourism bureaus are warmly welcoming Chinese tourists.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen even said that Chinese tourists do not need to do anything, just need to come as ordinary tourists.
The chairman of the Malaysian Inbound Tourism Association even said that if Malaysia prevents Chinese tourists from entering the country, then the country will suffer huge losses.
Thailand has built a number of hotels and theme parks during the pandemic, all to welcome the return of Chinese tourists.
Indonesia also prepared a red carpet to welcome Chinese tourists.
The reason why Chinese tourists are warmly welcomed abroad is mainly because of the large number of Chinese tourists, but also the very high consumption amount, of which the total spending of Chinese outbound tourism reached US$133.8 billion in 2019; Chinese consumers account for 40% of the world's free consumption, and Chinese consumers alone support nearly half of the world's duty-free consumption, so Chinese tourists have naturally become the "god of wealth" of global tourist cities.
Especially in the 3 years of the epidemic, the economy of various countries has declined, and no new economic growth points can be found, and now the "God of Wealth" wants to travel abroad, of course, all countries want to invite the "God of Wealth" back to their homes and bring wealth to their country.
South Korea and Japan are the few exceptions that do not welcome the God of Wealth to their own home and push people out, which can only be said to be that I hope you can afford the consequences!
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