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Preface
During this year's May Day holiday, the various scenic spots can be described as crowded.
Whether it is Tianshui Malatang in Gansu, or barbecue in Zibo, or the Forbidden City in Beijing and the gardens in Suzhou, they have all attracted many people.
Therefore, taking advantage of this rare May Day holiday, many people choose to travel.
However, the crowded scene during the May Day holiday has aroused heated discussions among some foreign netizens.
In the comment area, Japanese and Korean netizens also began to live.
May Day tourism has sparked heated discussions
This year's May Day holiday is almost surrounded by tourists.
Tickets for many scenic spots have been "looted" long before the May Day holiday, and even tickets and surrounding hotels are hard to find.
Not only that, many netizens also plan to go to Tianshui to taste Malatang and go to Zibo to eat a small barbecue.
Beijing, Chengdu, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Chongqing, Suzhou, Nanjing, Wuhan, Changsha and Guiyang are among the top 10 popular tourist destinations in China.
Among them, Beijing, with its many places of interest and historical sites, tops the list of popular cities, and Universal Resort, the Forbidden City, the National Museum and Tiananmen Square are the most popular check-in spots for tourists.
Some netizens shared that they went to Tiananmen Square in the early morning to watch the raising of the national flag.
Even if he chose to come here early in the morning, there were still many people who came earlier than him.
Helpless, netizens can only keep running forward.
By the time the sun rose, the square was already full of people watching the raising of the national flag.
In addition to Beijing, Chengdu is also very popular.
In particular, the tickets for scenic spots such as "Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Base", "Dujiangyan" and "Qingcheng Mountain" have been snatched up by netizens early.
In addition to Chinese tourists, many foreign tourists have also come to China for tourism.
According to public information, inbound travel bookings for the May Day holiday in 2024 will increase by 130% year-on-year, and inbound tourists are mainly from Canada, Malaysia, Thailand, France, etc.
In short, this year's May Day holiday is described as "crowded with people", which is simply appropriate.
However, in the eyes of some foreign netizens, this scene is another scene, especially Japanese and Korean netizens.
In the past May Day holiday, many people would choose to travel to Japan, South Korea or other countries.
In 2019 alone, 155 million Chinese outbound tourists traveled.
According to a report on the government portal of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the incident was published in the "Basic Situation of the Tourism Market in 2019" released on March 10, 2020
Perhaps because of these past cases, Japan and South Korea thought that Chinese tourists would still choose to travel to their countries during this year's May Day holiday.
Even Japanese TV presenters have said that this is the time for Japan's tourism industry to make money.
However, reality slapped them in the face.
During this year's May Day holiday, few Chinese traveled to Japan and South Korea.
Chinese tourists don't come, how can they make money.
Therefore, when they saw the picture of the crowd in the scenic area of China, their mentality was suddenly bad.
And their speeches can be called the whole scene.
Foreign evaluations of China's May Day tourism
Seeing that there are so many Chinese tourists traveling to Chengdu, Japanese netizens said that these people are all people who should have come to us for tourism.
In and out of the words, they are full of regrets.
And some Japanese netizens said that the scene of crowds in China's scenic spots is in stark contrast to the coldness of Japanese scenic spots.
No wonder Japanese netizens will comment like this, there are many Chinese, and the number of people who travel abroad every year is as high as hundreds of millions.
If you come to Japan, you will make a lot of money from the Japanese tourism industry.
But now, it's all delusional.
As for why China doesn't travel to Japan, I believe they themselves know that the sea is about to become a "mandarin duck pot" because of Japan.
However, the comments of Indian netizens and Korean netizens are a bit novel and funny.
Indian netizens said that every tourist in China seems to have a mobile phone in his hand, is this true?
The focus of Indian netizens is indeed a bit novel, not paying attention to the flow of people in the scenic spot, but paying attention to the mobile phones in the hands of tourists.
Worthy of you, India.
However, the replies of domestic netizens are even more funny, saying that China is still very poor, not everyone has a mobile phone, and their two children do not have it yet.
When Korean netizens saw the large number of Chinese tourists, they felt a little unbalanced, saying that these tourists should appear in South Korea, but now their tourists have been snatched away and they are very unhappy.
Korean netizens are sour in their words, why don't Chinese tourists travel to South Korea, don't they know?
In 2023, Chinese tourists traveling to South Korea will be required by South Korea to hang a yellow card when they enter the country.
Not only that, but after getting off the plane, they had to be taken to a separate area for nucleic acid.
According to a report by the National Business Daily, this incident was published on January 11, 2023 "Chinese tourists entering South Korea were hung with yellow cards, and the cost of quarantine for 7 days exceeded 6,000!
The blatant discrimination and differential treatment that Chinese tourists have not forgotten.
The cost of nucleic acid also needs to be paid by tourists themselves, which costs 80,000 won at a time, which is equivalent to 34 yuan.
In addition, Chinese tourists said that they were placed in a quarantine room by South Korea.
It was said to be a room, but in fact there was nothing in it except the floor.
Even so, South Korea charges for accommodation and meals, and also requires Chinese tourists to quarantine here for seven days.
In the past seven days, it will cost about 6,000 yuan.
In addition to South Korea, Japan also required red cards for Chinese tourists entering the country at that time.
In addition, Japan and South Korea have imposed a variety of strict rules and regulations on the entry of Chinese tourists.
As French netizens commented, why not think about the fact that Chinese tourists are no longer keen on foreign travel.
Although some countries have begun to make changes to welcome Chinese tourists, we have not forgotten some of their past behaviors.
What's more, don't Korean netizens remember what they said before?
Especially this Korean netizen, he hopes that Chinese tourists will not appear in their country and do not go abroad.
Now, we choose to travel in China, why are they not happy?
In addition to Japanese and Korean netizens, netizens from other countries were also shocked by the number of tourists during China's May Day holiday.
In particular, New Zealand netizens and German netizens have said that China's transportation capacity is quite powerful, and it can allow so many people to travel.
At the same time, they also admired the order of the scenic spot.
epilogue
During this year's May Day holiday, many people choose to travel in China to appreciate the great rivers and mountains of the motherland.
In the past, many people have always chosen to travel abroad to see the scenery of other countries.
But in the face of Chinese tourists who come to visit, some countries have two faces, and even treat them differently.
This kind of attitude is really annoying.
Perhaps it is precisely because of this that many people will choose to travel in China this year to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the motherland's rivers and mountains.
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The original article was published on China News Network on May 1, 2024 on "Illustrated丨Chinese and foreign "two-way running"! "May Day" Golden Week, how hot is the tourism industry?".
This article was originally published on China News on May 5, 2024 on "May Day" Tourism Big Data: China's Tourism Market Continues to Be Booming