This National Day holiday, inbound tourism continues to be hot. With the continuous expansion of the visa-free "circle of friends", the 144-hour transit visa-free, and the increasing convenience of payment, a number of facilitation policies and measures have attracted a large number of foreign tourists to travel to China.
The number of foreign tourists in many places has increased due to the continuous expansion of visa exemption
This year, Silk Street, which has just become the concession operator of "Beijing Gift", is expected to increase the number of foreign tourists, especially European and American tourists, by more than 50% during the National Day holiday compared to the same period last year. In Shenzhen, railways and airports are also crowded.
Liang Rui, deputy director of the Border Inspection Department of Shenzhen Airport Border Inspection Station, said that more than 360,000 foreign personnel entered the country, a year-on-year increase of about 143%. Among them, more than 130,000 foreign nationals entered the country without visas, a year-on-year increase of more than 5 times.
On September 30, the scope of visa-free countries was expanded again, and the visa-free policy was trialed for ordinary passport holders of Portugal, Greece, Cyprus and Slovenia. Since the beginning of this year, the number of travel orders into China from these four countries has increased by 120%, 150%, 166% and 182% respectively compared with last year.
The newly opened characteristic high-speed rail line is favored by foreign tourists
China's well-established high-speed rail grid connects big cities with small villages, and some of the new high-speed rail routes are also attractive to foreign tourists. The scenery of mountains and valleys, snow-capped mountains and grasslands along the Zhenjiangguan to Huangshengguan section of the Sichuan-Qingdao Railway is overwhelming, and the fastest journey from Chengdu East Railway Station to Huanglong Jiuzhai Station is only 1 hour and 39 minutes.
Enhance services to make it more convenient for foreign tourists to "travel to China".
During the National Day holiday, a series of new measures for entry, payment and services across the country have made foreign tourists' trips to China more convenient. In Beijing, since September, the subway network has supported foreign travelers to China to use wild cards to pass through the gates at all times, at all times and at all gates. At present, 27 operating lines, 836 kilometers and 490 stations of Beijing's urban subway network can be used in the whole network, all times and all gates.
In Lijiang, Yunnan Province, a popular travel destination, the latest customs clearance policy allows overseas tour groups to enter the country in a matter of minutes.
Hu Dalin, head of the Exit and Entry Administration Detachment of the Lijiang Municipal Public Security Bureau, said that for foreigners from countries who have not implemented visa-free access to enter Lijiang, they do not need to apply for visas at overseas embassies and consulates in advance, and only need to apply for group visas through travel agencies to enter Lijiang.
The Viet Nam tour leader said that they used a group landing visa to enter China on this flight, which is not as complicated as before, and they can directly handle exit and entry with a group landing visa to reach Lijiang directly.
Source: CCTV
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