(Beijing Comprehensive News) On the occasion of the Eleven Golden Week holiday in China, China officially issued 30 measures to promote the development of tourism, including the implementation of immigration tourism promotion plans, and optimizing visa and customs clearance policies.International flights, etc., to release the potential of tourism consumption, promote the high -quality development of tourism and the development of economic and social development.
According to Xinhua News Agency, the General Office of the State Council of the State Council issued a notice on the release of several measures on the release of tourism consumption potential to promote the high -quality development of tourism, and put forward 30 measures to promote the development of tourism in five aspectsEssence
These five aspects include increasing the supply of high -quality tourism products and services, stimulating the demand for tourism consumption, strengthening entry tourism work, improving the comprehensive capabilities of the industry, and guarantee measures.
In terms of promoting entry and tourism, relevant departments will optimize visa and customs clearance policies, including further improving the efficiency of visa application, "orderly restore various visa -free policies, and actively study the number of visa -free countries.", Routes in neighboring countries, as well as flight frequency, etc.
In addition, Chinese officials will also improve entry tourism services, optimize tax refund services, play the role of tourism trade carriers, and at the same time improve the convenient degree of convenience to use overseas bank cards and various electronic payment methods and the convenience of foreign currency exchange.
This document also mentioned that it is necessary to strengthen the promotion and precise marketing of overseas markets, and continue to launch a series of promotion activities for the national tourism image of China.
As China comes out of the crown disease epidemic, the Chinese tourism industry has significantly recovered in the first half of this year.According to the data released by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism earlier, the total number of domestic tourism in China reached 2.384 billion in the first half of this year, an increase of 929 million over the same period last year and a year -on -year increase of 63.9%.
However, in the first quarter of this year, the number of receptions of Chinese travel agencies was 52,000, of which nearly half of them came from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau, not the United States and Europe.Compared with the first quarter of 2019, the number of receptions of travel agencies was 3.7 million.
China Finance Magazine quotes the data of the Bureau of Finance and Economics, stating that from January to June this year, only 407,900 tourists in Beijing were twice as many as the whole year in 2022, but less than 11%in 2019.During the same period, the number of entry tourists in Shanghai was 1.2415 million, accounting for only 13.8%of the whole year of 2019.Among the entry tourists, the people of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan accounted for a relatively large, 21.4%.
Some people in the industry believe that the recovery of immigration travel is relatively lagging, which is mainly related to foreigners. It is difficult to apply for visas.In addition, it is also a big pain point for foreigners to pay in Chinese electronic payment.
