Positive news for the travel agencies in China as the country is gradually reopening for the domestic tour business.
Due to pandemic of covid-19 more than 40,000 travel agencies across the country faced almost 130 days of tour business suspension since at the end of last year. Now all tour operators and travel agencies finally received long-awaited good news!
One of our group traveling in Tibet
Beijing gradually reopens the domestic tourism
At a press conference on the prevention and control of covid-19 in Beijing on 5th June, Chen Bei, a deputy secretary general of the Beijing Municipal Government informed that the emergency response level for public health emergencies in Beijing will be safely moved from alert level 2 to alert level 3 beginning on 6th June. The serviceable measures of gradual reopening and dynamic adjustment under the alert level 3 response include timely reopening of domestic tour business except for medium and high-risk areas. At the same time it was announced that it would still take some time for the tour business sectors to permit entry and exit of the country.
Tourists inside Danxia Rainbow Color Park in Zhangye, China
Gradual reopening of domestic tourism business in Beijing is undoubtedly a very good expectation for the recovery of domestic inter-provincial tourism. A top China travel business website shows that in the two hours after the announcement, a large number of online consumers hit the mafengwo.com platform to inquire about tour information and tourism products in Beijing and surrounding areas. Beijing’s tourism surge increased by 17% compared to the day before the announcement. Air, train tickets and the major transportation products for in and out of Beijing rose by 269%. According to the online travel booking site Ctrip’s data, after the news was released, the searching numbers for vacation, airline tickets, hotels, car rentals, scenic spot tickets and other sectors on the Ctrip platform increased rapidly. Beijing’s related tourism products increased by 300% from the instant search number of the same period yesterday.
Tourists inside Zhangye Qicai Danxia Park in China
Pay attention to the reopening rules and regulations of domestic travel
“This is a good news. Group tours, long-distance tours and long duration tours are the product features of travel agencies. Tour business could only be able to fully play its role if the cross-provincial tours and cross-regional tours are bounced back to its normal operation. This is a great measure that can restore confidence in the tour industry.” said Zhong Hui, chairman of Shangyouhui international travel agency.
The tour industry also expressed great concern for the details of the subsequent reopening of domestic tourism business. Tourism expert Wang Xingbin told reporters: “What I care about now is that firstly whether we should reopen the tours from outside Beijing or not. And secondly whether the Beijing travel agencies can organize tourist groups to travel around the country. In addition to Beijing, other places, other provinces and other cities will respond together.”
Our clients inside China’s high speed train tour from Xining to Zhangye.
Starting from today, Beijing already had launched the first sign of the recovery of domestic tours and travels, and it has also paved a path for the low-risk areas across the country to recover and gradually activate travel industry.
