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The People’s Republic of China launched a one-year pilot project allowing visitors from Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Malaysia to no longer need a tourist visa. This goes along with the introduction of new flights and increased outreach to Western media to praise cultural relations. Currently, 54 countries can now transit to China visa-free. Malaysia’s Prime Minister announced that visitors from China and India will be granted 30-day […]

STR reported China hotel data for the week ended October 28th. Chinese hotels’ RevPAR was up 88.7% year over year for the week, up against a decline of -17.1% as a comp. When compared with the same week in 2019, RevPAR was up 3.4%. STR said the Asia Pacific region is accelerating its post-pandemic recovery […]

Trip.com data shows the global travel bookings for the summer (June 1 – August 31) already has surpassed the 2019 level with intra-regional travel leading the way. Overall bookings on the Trip.com platform for the summer increased by 170% when compared to the same period in 2022, up by 356% year over year in Asia. European markets are […]

The Fitch Ratings agency said the number of domestic tourism trips taken by Chinese consumers reached 119% of 2019 levels during the recent May Day holiday, aided by strong pent-up demand and the slower return of international flight capacity. Fitch said the domestic recovery trajectory was encouraging for the tourism industry but domestic tourism also benefits […]

STR reported China hotel RevPAR was up 99% year over year for the week ended May 13. When compared to the same week in 2019, RevPAR was down -7%. STR said Jakarta, Indonesia’s preliminary April 2023 data showed its highest monthly ADR since August 2019. Occupancy was down -1.7% to 45% but ADR was up 32.9% to IDR1,015,991.89 […]

The World Travel & Tourism Council reported positive signs of recovery for the Asian travel and tourism sector with five major metropolises seeing a significant economic rebound. The highest-performing Asian cities in 2022 were Bangkok, Beijing, Seoul, Singapore and Tokyo. The report, in partnership with Oxford Economics, showed those five cities had a recovering direct contribution to GDP by […]

The rumors about Covid in China have reached epic proportions including 20,000 people testing positive at the Foxconn plant, thousands of holidaymakers locked in Shanghai Disney and more. We can’t tell you what is true, what is fiction but we have always followed a belief that where there is smoke, there is fire and although the […]