BANGKOK : Overseas travel bookings from mainland China are currently at just over half of pre-pandemic levels but are on course to return to the 2019 numbers by the end of this year or early 2024, the head of online travel agency Agoda said on Thursday.China was the world's largest outbound tourism market
BANGKOK : Overseas travel bookings from mainland China are currently at just over half of pre-pandemic levels but are on course to return to the 2019 numbers by the end of this year or early 2024, the head of online travel agency Agoda said on Thursday.
China was the world's largest outbound tourism market before the pandemic with annual spending of $255 billion. The country reopened earlier this year after removing most of its pandemic restrictions, giving a big boost to outbound travel. "China recovery is expediting, a little higher than half way versus 2019 levels," Omri Morgenshtern told reporters on Thursday, adding that was"still some way off" the 2019 figures for the first five months.A major beneficiary of that reopening was Thailand, one of Asia's most popular travel spots. The top overseas destinations for Chinese tourists were Hong Kong, Bangkok and the Thai island of Phuket, Agoda data showed.
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