Mainland China officially restarted a three -year outbound team tour on Monday (February 6), piloted to restore the group tour of the 20 countries, and at the same time opened the Hong Kong and Macau entry and group tour.The outbound tourism group of travel agencies in many places in mainland China set off on Monday to different countries. Southeast Asia is the most popular destination.
With the "opening" of outbound travel, a large number of overseas tour teams set off from Beijing, Shanghai, Xiamen, Shenzhen and other places on Monday.Among them, nearly 50 tourists organized by Guangzhou Tourism Corporation's Guangzhou Tour started from Guangzhou Airport at 00:00 on Monday in the morning. They were the first touring teams in Guangzhou. They went to the UAE and Egypt to participate in the six -day tour and 10 -day tour.
According to the "CCTV News Client" report, there were nearly 160 tourists from six tourism groups in Guangzhou on the day of Guangzhou. Most of the travelers were retired, accounting for about 80 % of the tourists.
After the outbreak of the crown disease, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China announced on January 26, 2020 that travel agencies and online tourism companies have suspended operating team tourism and "air tickets + hotels" tourism products.
This is three years later, China has resumed team outbound tour again.The first batch of 20 overseas destination countries with outbound and group tour include Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Kenya, South Africa, Russia, Switzerland, etc.
Guide to the Guangzhi Tour, the starting team tourists will be welcomed by different local forms after arriving at the destination. For example, after the tourists of the Dubai Six -Day Group arrived, local officials will welcome them at the airport.Visitors provide "advance in"; officials of the Ministry of Tourism in Cambodia will also welcome passengers at the airport and send flowers and souvenirs.
Southeast Asia is still the most popular destination for Chinese tourists.Zhao Wenzhi, president of Guangzhi Journey, told the United Morning Post that the first batch of pilot openings are mainly Southeast Asian countries. The visa requirements of these countries are relatively simple. It is currently a more objective factors for Southeast Asia.
He introduced that taking the Guangjin as an example, of the five outbound tourist groups that were launched on Monday, three tourist groups with Southeast Asia were occupied, and they went to Thailand and Cambodia.
Singapore's outbound travel group, which is organized by China Travel Organization, started from Beijing on Monday.According to Beijing Daily, this is the first outbound team tour product launched by the travel agency since the epidemic. The members of the tour group went to Singapore via Hong Kong to Singapore to start a five -day and four -night journey.
Talking about the team tour of Guangzhou departing to Singapore, Zhao Wenzhi said that there are still problems in Singapore tour. After the round -trip route is fully recovered, travel agencies will inevitably launch more related tourism products.
In the past three years, the Chinese tourism industry has encountered a cold winter, and the income of tourism practitioners has decreased sharply. With the restart of the outbound team travel business, travel agencies and online tourism companies across China have recently launched a large number of outbound travel products, and launched online and offline marketing promotion.Link, ready to welcome the recovery of the tourism industry.
As of Monday, China ’s online tourism company Ctrip has launched a total of nearly 1,200 outbound team tours and“ air tickets + hotel ”products, covering 16 countries including Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Maldives, Switzerland, Malaysia, and Hong Kong and MacauPlaces.
