Egypt and the United Arab Emirates stand out as the two favorite destinations in the Chinese outbound tourism market this year, the People’s Daily newspaper of China reported on Saturday.
The newspaper said that the data from the VFS Global agency for visa services shows a strong increase in demand by Chinese tourists for tourist visas since last March.
By May, the number of foreign visa applications in China had reached 40 percent of the 2019 level, People’s Daily said, indicating that VFS Global expects that travel demand will continue to rise this year, and that the annual travel peak will soon come.
VFS Global expressed its optimism about the tourism season for the year 2023, expecting it to continue throughout the year.
The agency added that the students’ summer holidays had brought forward the peak demand for visas to May, anticipating that this peak would continue for four consecutive months.
