SOUTH ASIA NEEDS CHINESE TOURISTS BUT THE BORDERS ARE CLOSED

Samuel Dorsi -
Countries in South Asia are announcing one after another the return of visitors, after a year and a half of border closures. Chinese tourists are being attracted to various destinations the most. Does ...

SWISS GUESTS SAVE THE DOMESTIC HOTEL MARKET

Larry Brain -
Last year, Switzerland recorded 38 million hotel overnight stays. Most of them were accounted for by the Swiss domestic travelers, which provided another record result. Only in the "pre-Corona years" ...

CHINESE TOURISM: NOT LIKELY TO RECOVER THIS YEAR

Larry Brain -
In 2021, global tourism had 448 million tourists and $637 billion in spending, a third of the pre-Covid level. In perspective, the volume of global tourism is now equivalent to that of the 1990s in te ...

AIRBNB LEAVES CHINA – NOT ONLY BECAUSE OF COVID

Alec Hills -
Airbnb has decided to suspend its rental accommodation offering in China due to repeated confinements since early 2020, according to a source close to the matter. The room, apartment and house booking ...

THE REAL ESTATE CRISIS IN CHINA IMPACTS TOURISM

Gary Diskin -
Chinese tourists were the top travelers in the world in 2019. They spent over $250 billion collectively abroad, almost twice as much as their closest rivals, the Americans. Additionally, they recorded ...