Chinese travel agencies and online travel companies will resume pilot outbound group tours to a total of 20 countries starting from February 6, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced on Friday.
As some countries join the club of imposing travel restrictions on arrivals from China, scientists from all over the world believe such a decision was not made based on science, and is logistically cumbersome, and a toxic trend that hurdles the global trend of returning to pre-pandemic normalcy.
It may be a chance for the US to realize what it did in the past equals shooting itself in the foot. If the US truly wants to enjoy China s travel dividends, it should show a welcoming gesture to China s optimized pandemic response and the incoming Chinese tourists.
Most countries around the world have welcomed China’s move to open up to travelers from all over the globe and encouraged Chinese to travel abroad, after the country’s COVID-19 battle entered a new stage. However, a small number of countries and regions, such as the US and Japan, see China’s reopening as another chance to defame Beijing. They have imposed travel restrictions on arrivals from China, citing what experts called “unfounded” and “discriminatory” measures to defend their moves, but the real intention is to sabotage China’s three years of COVID-19 control efforts and attack the country’s system.
As China moves to relax coronavirus curbs, inquiries for outbound travel and visa application have surged, as people are keen to go abroad again after years of relatively strict COVID-19 epidemic controls, industry sources told the Global Times on Sunday.