Chinese travelers have canceled their plans to visit Thailand during the New Year’s holidays, as concerns about the invitation N of actor King XING continue to resonate throughout the country.
Online reservations for travel to Thailand will be 15.6 % from January 13 to January 20 after the news of the king’s rescue from fraudulent compounds along the border between Thailand and Myanmar this month. It has decreased. desk.
Fallouts are also expanded to other countries in Southeast Asia, along with Variflight data, which indicates that Chinese tourists have canceled their vacation travel to Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia. 。
“The biggest decrease is Thailand. Other Southeast Asian countries are a secondary damage,” said Bat. “Many people are going to travel in the community as a single trip, so some have canceled their trips born from these countries.”
In the same week in January, Chinese travelers traveled to other destinations to other destinations, including Australia (+4.8 %), the United Arab Emirates (+4.7 %), and Korea (+3.9 %). I also made a reservation.
Last Wednesday, Thailand posted a video on the government’s Facebook page in the AI ​​of the Prime Minister’s AI trying to reassure Chinese tourists to reassure that traveling to Thailand is safe. A few days ago, Chinese officials said that they were ready to cooperate with Southeast Asian countries to crack down on fraudulent compounds across borders, according to Chinese state council.
Yang Lei, an analyst of Hong Kong -based financial service company, CHINA GALAXY International, which hated visiting Southeast Asia to visit Southeast Asia. I mentioned it.
“Currently, the Chinese are more cautious to go to Thailand and several other Southeast countries,” she told the CNBC’s Squawk Box asia on Monday. “The hot outbound place will continue in Japan (and) Korea, and for the New Year in China, people will be very happy to Australia, New Zealand and the United States.”
Fear of human trading
The king’s invitation N, who was tempted by Bangkok for the opportunity to work, reshased fear among Chinese tourists to visit other areas in Thailand and Southeast Asia.
Outbound trip: Increase, “uniform”
Despite the cancellation, some Southeast Asia is expected to attract more Chinese tourists than 2019 than 2019.
Flight reservations to Singapore increased 14.2 % from the 2019 level and 6.2 % to Malaysia. In South Korea, Chinese tourists are expected to recover completely during the festival.
However, Japan is the biggest destination of the Chinese travelers in the New Year’s New Year -It is not expected to see the complete recovery of visitors from China, and the data indicating 2019 is 2019. It decreases by 10 % from the year.
Bat said that outbound trips from China are now “uniform.” He added that he is still away to long -distance destinations like Europe and the United States while outbound trips from China are picking up.
In addition to safety, geopolitics and costs are promoting Chinese travel sentiment. That’s why “politically neutral” countries, such as Singapore and Malaysia, see travelers returning faster than other places.
“The closing of the Russian airspace is more expensive to travel to Europe, so it’s much more expensive to fly (Chinese travelers),” he said.
Yang said, despite the less consumer trust in the economic slowdown, he would be willing to spend his experience, especially his experience, especially traveling.
“In the future of China, inbound and outbound trips are expected to maintain a very strong total.”
Chinese officials expect a record 9 billion trip during the 40 -day New Year’s travel rush of the country that began on January 14.
