The Chinese government released the draft of the border tourism management measures this week, and the amendments include clarifying that the border tourist team can flexibly choose the entry and exit ports.Scholars of interviewees believe that this draft releases signals that China may be preparing to further loosen epidemic prevention measures, and there is a limited extent to overseas leisure travelers to open the country in the expected future.
The official website of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism on the official website of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism released the border tourism management measures on Monday (September 19) (revised the draft for comments) and publicly solicited opinions from the society for 10 days.
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism said in the instructions of the revised draft that the border tourism management measures have played an important role in promoting the facilitation of border tourism and promoting humanistic exchanges in border regions and neighboring countries since 1997The needs of the new situation.
Border Tourism Management Measures will replace the temporary interim measures that have been implemented for 25 years, which aims to further expand the opening of China's tourism industry. The main modifications include the implementation of the requirements of the State Council's "relaxation of border tourism control" and other requirements.Tourism destinations, the border tourism team can flexibly choose the entrance and exit ports, and will also delete front conditions such as border tourism approval and apply for entry and exit certificates nearby.
However, the draft does not provide details such as regions and implementation dates covered by management measures.The Chinese border borders more than 10 countries including Russia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam.
Qiu Dongyang, Dean of the School of Economics and Finance of Chongqing University of Technology, evaluated in an interview with Lianhe Morning Post that Chinese domestic tourism recently has been impacted due to the rebound of many places. At this timeLeisure passengers reopen their country and use this as a starting point to drive the tourism market and consumption."It is not a large area of liberalization, it may also be a tentative (measure), using border tourism as a entry point." He believes that the release of the draft is equivalent to releasing signals to the market and let the border tourism operators loosen the possible future policies for the future.Psychological preparation.
Chongqing tourists who do not want to be named in an interview believed that the official draft issued a clear orientation was clearly guided. "Even if domestic tourism is controlled, (official) Foreign -related tourism still hopes to have more opportunities and space for space."" ".
China has been closing the border to foreign leisure passengers since the beginning of 2020, and only allows foreigners who hold some work visas to enter the country.However, the recent relevant restrictions have been signs of gradually loosening. Among them, the officials have reduced the actions of admitted Chinese passengers from 21 days to 10 days at the end of June this year, which is the maximum relaxation of epidemic prevention measures in the past two years.
China and Singapore will also usher in a wave of flights to resume and work in the end of this month.Cool Air will fly to and from Nanjing from Singapore from September 25; from September 26th, it will resume Singapore to and from Fuzhou passenger flights; from October 3rd, Singapore will be resumed to and from Hangzhou passenger flights.
The new flight passenger flights flying to Singapore will be officially restored on September 27, with two flights per week.
Reuters quoted Yang Jinsong, director of the International Institute of China Tourism Research, expects that cross -border tourism will usher in recovery, but this will still depend on crown disease and virus control measures.
Wu Shi, President of the Chongqing Branch of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce in China, also said in the interview that although the cultural tourism department may have a willingness to relax, if the nucleic acid testing and isolation measures of leisure tourists will not relax, cross -border tourism will still be difficult to boostEssence
