On May 1, 2023, Chinese tourists will visit the Grand Palace, Thailand's scenic spot. PHOTO XINHUA China's outbound tourism market has recovered, with outbound destinations receiving 40.37 million visits from the Chinese mainland in the first half of this year, according to China Tourism Academy's official WeChat account.
Short-distance outbound travel was the first to recover, with 93.9 percent of tourists concentrated in Asia.
From the perspective of popular areas for outbound tourism, tourists preferred East Asia and Southeast Asia, of which East Asia received the largest number of tourists from the Chinese mainland, accounting for 83.92 percent.
Passengers on international routes were up 23.0 percent in the first half of this year to 23.0 percent in 2019.
On March 26, 2023, airport representatives give away Dutch souvenirs - painted wooden tulips - to Chinese tourists at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands. The worldwide passenger traffic in June rebounded back to 41.6 percent of the same period in 2019, according to the Civil Aviation Administration of China.
With Thailand and Japan among the most popular overseas destinations, the first tier was Thailand and Japan, with over 10 percent of the outbound tourists.
The second tier included Singapore and South Korea, with 5 percent and 10 percent of outbound visitors from the Chinese mainland.
The sources of outbound tourists were mainly concentrated in economically developed provinces and cities of the Chinese mainland.
China is a leader in rural tourism, the UNWTO official said in a statement.
China's outbound tourism was dominated by tourists from Jiangsu, Jiangsu, Guangdong, Shanghai, Beijing, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian.