With the recovery of the global tourism industry, the number of inbound tourists is growing rapidly. With the implementation of measures such as mutual visa exemption between the mainland and many countries, more and more inbound tour groups have also been ushered in.
At the Lingering Garden in Suzhou, more than 20 tourists from Australia started their trip to China. In the classical garden of Jiangnan, everyone listened attentively to the tour guide's explanation and recorded every scenery with their mobile phones.
Michael, Australian tourist: It's my first time in Suzhou, it's amazing, it's beautiful, it's very historical, and the people are very friendly.
From January to February this year, Suzhou received more than 90,000 inbound tourists, doubling the year-on-year increase, many of which were tour groups of more than 100 people. According to statistics from the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, from January to February this year, Jiangsu received more than 220,000 overseas tourists, a year-on-year increase of more than 120%, and earned 350 million US dollars in foreign exchange from tourism.
Since the beginning of this year, the visa-free policy between the mainland and many countries has come into effect, and a series of measures to facilitate personnel exchanges have been introduced. At Nanjing Lukou International Airport, the largest port of entry in Jiangsu, the number of people entering and leaving the country enjoying the visa-free policy has also grown rapidly.
In order to facilitate the inbound tourists, Zhangjiajie actively improves the international service level of the scenic spot, and designs signs, menus, maps, and scenic guide manuals in multiple languages in scenic spots, hotels, public toilets and other places, and encourages the scenic spot to provide multilingual explanation services. In order to make inbound tourists pay conveniently and without barriers, Zhangjiajie has set up foreign currency exchange points at airports, high-speed rail stations, shopping malls and other passenger gathering places to provide services to foreign tourists.
Beijing welcomes all group members to enter the German tour group visa-free
In the past few days, Beijing has welcomed a German tour group. Unlike previous inbound tour groups, all of these group members are visa-free to enter China.
Recently, more than 2,000 tourists from the German cruise ship "Atania" arrived in Shanghai. On the same day, 350 of them signed up for a "one-day tour" in Beijing. At the Juyongguan Great Wall, the magnificent scenery impresses German tourists. They took out their mobile phones one after another to take pictures of this unforgettable moment.
The reporter learned from the Beijing Municipal Department of Culture and Tourism that in 2024, Beijing will vigorously expand inbound tourism, promote tourism in many countries, demonstrate the strong attraction of China's cultural and tourism integration tourism, and introduce measures to improve the inbound travel experience of foreign tourists in many aspects.
Various facilitation measures such as visa-free policies and convenient payment methods have attracted more and more foreign tourists, and the strong momentum of China's tourism market has also injected new vitality into the recovery of the global tourism market.
(Source: CCTV News)