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With China's easing of entry restrictions, the global air travel market has embraced a golden opportunity for further recovery and carriers have been ramping up their international flight services to China to satisfy growing travel demand.

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The re-launch of outbound group tours has triggered growing international resumption of outbound travel, which has brought more hope for a quick recovery of the industry that has suffered three years of bleeding due to the pandemic

The number of people leaving and entering the Chinese mainland reached 676,000 on Monday, up by 32.8 percent from the previous day and the highest since the COVID-19 pandemic began, according to data released by the National Immigration Administration (NIA) on Tuesday.

After China resumed group tour services to 20 countries and regions in a pilot program, more Chinese tour groups departed on Tuesday for destinations in Southeast Asia and beyond, and bookings for trips to other places like New Zealand are surging, said Chinese travel agencies.

Thousands of excited travelers made an early morning dash for various checkpoints as the Chinese mainland fully resumed normal travel with the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions on Monday.

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced that travel agencies could resume booking group travel to the Hong Kong and Macao from Monday.

Macao's economy is showing a momentum of accelerated recovery with multiple favorable factors emerging after three years of COVID-19 pandemic, Ho Iat Seng, chief executive of the Macao Special Administrative Region, said Monday.

BEIJING, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- Immigration authorities across China on Monday handled 676,000 exits and entries, hitting a record high since the COVID-19 outbreak,