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That article is paywalled, looking at the numbers I got this: > the first half of 2023 witnessed a total of 168 million inbound and outbound individuals passin
by Grimburger 3y ago
That article is paywalled, looking at the numbers I got this:
> the first half of 2023 witnessed a total of 168 million inbound and outbound individuals passing through China’s immigration
https://www.china-briefing.com/news/chinas-tourism-in-2023-outlook-trends-and-opportunities/ https://www.china-briefing.com/news/chinas-tourism-in-2023-o...
Seems fairly decent.
- autocanopener 3y agoThat number is counted whenever citizens travel to/from Hong Kong and Macau. There are people making day trips to/from Hong Kong every day.
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoI still don’t understand why HK is still considered a foreign destination in China.
- zhivota 3y agoWhy would an authoritarian government give up a preassembled internal border checkpoint? Makes sense for them to keep it.
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoMaybe they do it so they can count all tourism between the SAR as international tourism. Results in lots of gained face.
- nerdbert 3y agoPeople from many countries can enter Hong Kong without a visa. It draws tourists and helps with many export businesses. For this reason people in Hong Kong have not passed the stricter scrutiny applied to people who visit the mainland, so they have to be re-checked at the border.
- zztop44 3y agoIt (still) has different laws, different visa rules and a different passport.
- mbajkowski 3y agoDon't have any numbers myself, but per persons who recently attended KubeCon China earlier this year they have not seen Shanghai this empty of tourists in years. Also, supported by a friend of mine who was head of accounting for a cosumer goods firm over there until recently.
- nojs 3y agoYeah, I was in Shanghai recently and it felt like there were an order of magnitude less tourists than a few years ago.