Shut out from their top destinations, Chinese travelers are going here instead
last year, Chinese travelers said that they were most interested in visiting Europe, Australia, Canada, Japan and South Korea.Flight restrictions, visa issues and entrance rulesChinese travelers favored Southeast Asia for trips during the Lunar New Year holidays, which ended in early February, according to Trip.com Group's Chinese language booking website, Ctrip.
Overseas hotel bookings by mainland Chinese travelers quadrupled from last year too, Ctrip said. Yet one place stood out — Bangkok, where "hotels over the holiday increased by more than 33 times," said Ctrip.Thailand is the also the top choice for Chinese tour groups for now, said Thomas Lee, Trip.com Group's senior director of international business operations.
Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and Laos, as well as United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Hungary, Cuba and Russia.A major reason Chinese tourists are choosing to go to Thailand is that it's easy for them to get in, Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said on "At the end of the day, we were able to open up our country with very minimum restrictions," he said.
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