06-05-2023, 06:43 AM
Favorite destinations Hong Kong, Thailand, Japan, Malaysia.
The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) anticipates that Chinese tourist arrivals in 2023 will reach between 30% and 60% of pre-Covid-19 pandemic figures, which previously stood at approximately 3.6 million visitors per year from China.
A total of 274 million people went on trips within the mainland during the holiday, 19 per cent more than the same period in 2019 before the pandemic hit, generating revenue of 148 billion yuan (US$21 billion), up 0.7 per cent, according to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
China’s outbound tours have recovered more slowly. Reservations for overseas flights at major online travel agency Qunar.com were 55 per cent lower during this year’s holiday than in 2019, but bookings for outbound tours – including transport and accommodation – on Filggy, another popular travel site owned by Alibaba, soared tenfold compared to last year.
Fliggy data showed that purchases of outbound tours during the Labour Day holiday more than tripled compared with the Lunar New Year holiday, even though the latter lasted for two more days. Just last month, Beijing made it easier to travel in and out of China, cancelling the requirement for a negative PCR test result from April 29 onwards. Instead, travellers can show a negative rapid antigen test result prior to travel.
The top destinations for mainland travellers during the Labour Day holiday were Hong Kong, Thailand, Japan and Malaysia, according to Fliggy.
The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) anticipates that Chinese tourist arrivals in 2023 will reach between 30% and 60% of pre-Covid-19 pandemic figures, which previously stood at approximately 3.6 million visitors per year from China.
A total of 274 million people went on trips within the mainland during the holiday, 19 per cent more than the same period in 2019 before the pandemic hit, generating revenue of 148 billion yuan (US$21 billion), up 0.7 per cent, according to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
China’s outbound tours have recovered more slowly. Reservations for overseas flights at major online travel agency Qunar.com were 55 per cent lower during this year’s holiday than in 2019, but bookings for outbound tours – including transport and accommodation – on Filggy, another popular travel site owned by Alibaba, soared tenfold compared to last year.
Fliggy data showed that purchases of outbound tours during the Labour Day holiday more than tripled compared with the Lunar New Year holiday, even though the latter lasted for two more days. Just last month, Beijing made it easier to travel in and out of China, cancelling the requirement for a negative PCR test result from April 29 onwards. Instead, travellers can show a negative rapid antigen test result prior to travel.
The top destinations for mainland travellers during the Labour Day holiday were Hong Kong, Thailand, Japan and Malaysia, according to Fliggy.