" Global Times " has begun to vent the "relaxation of entry restrictions". This time, the dawn of thawing inbound and outbound travel may really be coming!
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Foreign media: China will relax some entry restrictions
On September 21, the Global Times, an international news weekly sponsored by the People's Daily, published an article by foreign media reports that China will relax some entry restrictions, which attracted the attention of many tourism practitioners. The first thing that the article mentioned was the US Tourism Pulse website released a message on September 19 that Chinese officials said today (September 19) would relax border restrictions to allow some foreign tourists and tourists to enter the country.
According to Reuters , tourism teams will be allowed to enter China and have the option of entry and exit ports. This is one of China's moves to follow the practices of the rest of the world.
Singapore "Lian Zaobao" published the "Border Tourism Management Measures (Revised Draft for Comments)" from the official website of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China as a focus, and reported on " China Plan to Modify Regulations to Promote the Development of Border Tourism ".
In addition to Reuters and Singapore Lianhe Zaobao, the " Hindustan Times " also released a message on September 20 that China may relax entry regulations for foreign tourists, for the first time in 2020.
Indian media pointed out that the Chinese government has issued a relevant draft aimed at making it more convenient for some foreign tourists to enter China to visit some tourist attractions in the border areas.
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Hong Kong is expected to loosen entry isolation measures in November
Although many tourism practitioners are not optimistic about my country's gradual relaxation of entry travel restrictions, there is no wind and waves, and foreign media reports are not groundless, let alone national media such as the Global Times have reported. Although
is just a report from foreign media, the entry quarantine policy has been recently adjusted, the number of international flights has been increased, the "Border Tourism Management Measures" has been revised, and the entry of APEC business travel is allowed. These changes in entry and exit are indisputable facts.
Perhaps, the dawn of thawing inbound and outbound tourism is really coming!
In addition to recent foreign media reports and a series of domestic adjustments to entry, a substantial relaxation policy may be implemented in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in November.
Director of the Medical and Health Bureau of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Lu Chongmao html said on the 517th: The government has a positive attitude towards reducing the hotel quarantine time again and will actively consider adjusting the entry quarantine measures to "0+7" before November.
"0+7" means that incoming people no longer need hotel quarantine, and only 7 days of community medical observation is enough, which is what we often call zero quarantine." Since WHO officially announced a few days ago that the new crown epidemic is about to end, Singapore and some Southeast Asian countries have implemented the "zero quarantine" policy.
Chief doctor of the Infectious Diseases Department of the Hong Kong Center for Health Protection Ou Jiarong also said at a press conference on the 18th that promoting the "0+7" entry policy of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is in the consideration of integrating with the international community and restoring Hong Kong's tourism industry as soon as possible.
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Inbound and outbound tourism has a huge effect on the tourism market
Since the beginning of 2020, my country's inbound and outbound tourism has been stagnant for nearly 3 years. Some tourism practitioners use "losing the entry and exit market, and China's tourism industry has lost half of its territory" to describe the tourism industry under the epidemic.
From this, we can see that inbound and outbound tourism is of great significance to the tourism market. As countries around the world relax entry restrictions, the calls for gradually relaxing entry travel restrictions have also become higher and higher in the industry.
Ctrip shows that thanks to the global gradual relaxation of inbound and outbound tourism policies, the group's overseas business recovery speed has reached a new high. In the second quarter, Ctrip continued to maintain steady growth in the European and American markets. The number of air ticket bookings in Europe has reached the level in 2019, and the number of hotel bookings increased by nearly 400% year-on-year.
Ctrip CEO Sun Jie said that with the opening of borders and the further lifting of travel restrictions, travel activities in the Asia-Pacific region have also rebounded and have recovered at an unprecedented rate since the outbreak of the epidemic.
With the statement of WHO on "the end of the new crown pandemic", the resumption of opening up of the international tourism industry has become an unstoppable torrent. While promoting the recovery of global tourism, it has also injected new vitality into the economy that has been sluggish for nearly three years and brought new hope.
