Will cross-border tourism be popular in the future?

Cross-border tourism refers to tourists traveling from one country or region to another. With the acceleration of globalization and the improvement of people's living standards, cross-border tourism has become a trend. However, due to the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic, cross-border tourism has been greatly impacted, and its future development is still uncertain.

In the future, the cross-border tourism industry may have the following trends:

1. Regional tourism will be more popular: due to the epidemic, cross-border tourism may be restricted in the future, and regional tourism will be more popular.

2. Online travel will become more popular: With the development of technology, online travel will become more popular. People can visit scenic spots around the world through the Internet and realize virtual tourism.

3. Healthy tourism will become a trend: the epidemic situation makes people pay more attention to health, and healthy tourism may become a trend in the future.

4. Technology will change the way of tourism: In the future, technology will play an increasingly important role in the tourism industry, such as virtual reality technology, artificial intelligence, big data and so on. This will change the way and experience of traveling.

Generally speaking, there is still a lot of room for the future development of cross-border tourism.

With the adjustment of epidemic prevention and control policies, cross-border fever has rapidly warmed up. Recently, many countries came to China to remove nucleic acids, Hong Kong cancelled the "mask order" and Chinese mainland relaxed its epidemic prevention policy, which further released the demand for cross-border tourism.

Ctrip data shows that in the past two weeks, although the number of outbound flights is still less than 20% in the same period of 20 19, the popularity of air ticket search has reached about 80% in the same period of 20 19.

On February 28th, Hong Kong announced that it would lift the "mask order" from March 1 day. The day before, Macao officially implemented the requirement of not wearing masks outdoors. The industry believes that more friendly social places are expected to promote the further growth of local tourism in spring and summer. According to OTA platform data, after the full customs clearance in Hong Kong on February 6th, travel orders soared. After customs clearance (February 6-February 26), the overall travel booking of the mainland to Hong Kong increased by 54% compared with the previous month, while the average price of travel orders decreased by 8%.

According to incomplete statistics, at present, 27 cities in the mainland have direct flights to Hong Kong, and 20 cities can fly directly to Macao, and the round-trip price basically remains between 1000 yuan and 2,000 yuan. With the resumption of self-service endorsement, Hong Kong and Macao, as the most flexible and convenient cross-border destinations, will have a steady growth in spring outing.

In addition, with the arrival of the cherry blossom season, the Japanese government announced yesterday that it would relax COVID-19's epidemic prevention inspection measures for Japanese immigrants, which also ignited people's enthusiasm for traveling to China. Ctrip platform data shows that since February, the number of visa orders for mainland tourists to Japan has increased by 2 13%. After the news that the entry inspection was relaxed yesterday, the search volume of Japanese products on OTA platform increased by 76% that night.

According to the reporter's incomplete statistics, there are currently about 63 direct flights from the mainland to Japan every week, covering 17 domestic departure cities, with destinations in Tokyo and Osaka. After March 1, there will be more direct flights to Chinese mainland at airports all over Japan, with no limit to destinations. More cities that were popular with tourists from China before the epidemic will open direct flights to China.