The Chinese New Year is coming.
Three years ago, many Chinese people chose to travel to Australia during the Spring Festival holiday every year in the mainland, and after the epidemic ended, this year is also the first year that the mainland has opened up group tours in Australia. According to the practice of previous years, there should be no fewer tourists to Australia this year.
But a well-known tour guide in Sydney said: "During this year's Chinese New Year holiday, I did not receive a single order from China. ”
The tour guide also said that he has been a tour guide for five years, and at the beginning there would be more than 100,000 Chinese tourists every month, and Chinese tourists accounted for more than 20% of his tour guide business.
But nowadays, there are fewer and fewer Chinese tourists, and most of the tourists who come to Australia are tourists from European countries such as the United States, Britain and Germany.
Bilingual tour guide in Sydney
Chinese tourists, who used to be a market they relied on a lot, are now even more dependent on the United States.
Even after the epidemic is brought under control, although the number of Chinese tourists visiting Australia has increased slowly, it is still very far from the pre-epidemic level.
In addition to this, the number of people traveling from the mainland to other countries has also decreased considerably. The decline in the number of people traveling abroad from the mainland has even led to the loss of more than 100 billion dollars in global tourism.
Some foreign industry insiders believe that the reason for this situation is that after the epidemic, the number of international flights in China has not returned to the previous level.
It is also important to note that the war in Ukraine has directly affected China's international routes, resulting in many flights not being able to fly to North America and Europe.
However, Ctrip, the largest travel website in the mainland, said that the number of orders for foreign travel during the Spring Festival holiday this year is at least ten times more than last year.
But most of them are to some Asian countries, such as South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, etc., especially after Singapore and the mainland signed a visa-free agreement, it is more popular.
This is only a comparison of the last two years, and there are still far fewer tourists visiting Japan and South Korea this year than in the past, especially after the impact of nuclear contamination and earthquakes.
However, there are still some Chinese people who are willing to travel to Japan.
Now almost all the tourism industry around the world is trying to compete for Chinese tourists.
Many Chinese people said that after the epidemic, the downgrade of national consumption is serious, and domestic travel is more affordable and cost-effective.
Especially after the explosion of Harbin, the local cultural and tourism bureaus are also showing their own tricks, and some people predict that the number of domestic tourists will be close to 10 billion in 2024.
And it seems that it is not easy for the Australian tourism industry to return to the level of popularity it once had.
Summary: Traveling anywhere in the world is everyone's free choice, but we have a vast land in China, and each region has its own customs, and I hope that each of us will choose domestic travel, in addition to a kind of spiritual enrichment, but also because we really love every piece of land in the motherland.
It's not that I can't afford to go abroad, but the great rivers and mountains of the motherland are unmatched~