China sees surge in inbound tourism
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The Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China announced a significant surge in inbound tourism, with the total number of inbound tourists reaching 94.6283 million in the first three quarters of 2024, marking a 78.8 percent increase year-on-year. The announcement was made on Friday during the China International Travel Mart 2024 held at the National Exhibition and Convention Center in Shanghai.
  • COASTER1921English
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    3 days ago

    They drastically reduced all visa requirements last year to promote tourism. Even US citizens can do a visa-free transit for up to 10 days (provided they stay in the region they landed). They also added support for Visa and Mastercard to Wechat and Alipay making it practical for a foreigner to travel the country without being accompanied by a citizen for the first time since digital payments took over (albeit with a somewhat complex ID and visa verification process).

    I’d love to visit as a tourist sometime but you can’t have both the business visa and tourist visa at the same time, so to go as a tourist I’d need to cancel my 10yr business visa which simply isn’t possible for my position where I rarely know when I’m going to China more than 2 days in advance.