Shanghai is to take plenty of new measures to spice up its inbound tourism market and make the town the highest vacation spot for inbound vacationers in China.
Statistics confirmed that the town has continued to see a scorching inbound tourism market.
In 2024, it obtained greater than 6 million inbound vacationers, virtually double the three.65 million in 2023, in accordance with information launched by the Shanghai Administration of Tradition and Tourism.
Town’s border inspection authorities recorded a complete of 4.56 million visits of inbound foreigners, twice the quantity in 2023. Amongst them, the variety of visits by inbound international nationals having fun with visa-free insurance policies was 1.67 million, accounting for about 37 p.c.
To make Shanghai extra enticing as the primary cease for inbound tourism in China, the town authorities just lately handed the “Three-12 months Motion Plan for the Excessive-High quality Growth of Shanghai’s Tourism Business (2025-2027).”
Shanghai will additional discover its complete benefits and attempt to make the tourism business a serious cause for attracting home and international vacationers to go to the town, in accordance with the plan.
It goals to speed up the development of tourism high quality, deepen the combination of tradition, tourism, commerce, sports activities, and exhibitions, lengthen the consumption chain, successfully amplifying the spillover and boosting impact of tourism.
Beneath the newly applied 240-hour visa-free transit coverage and the continual enlargement of the “visa-free circle” since 2024, the speedy progress of inbound tourism is a spotlight of the 2025 Spring Pageant tourism market, China’s world journey service supplier Journey.com mentioned.
Statistics reveal that inbound tourism orders through the Spring Pageant had elevated by 203 p.c 12 months on 12 months, with the principle supply international locations being South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, the US, Australia, Thailand, the UK, Russia and Vietnam.
Catching the momentum, the 2025 Tourism Plus Shanghai, a serious expo cluster of the excellent tourism business, might be held at in Shanghai in late March and early April. It’s estimated it should appeal to 450,000 home and international guests from over 140 international locations and areas to Shanghai with a number of particular exhibitions on meals, espresso, water sports activities, freeway tourism, and motels, and 6 way of life festivals held.
As of one of many essential platforms for Shanghai to deepen the combination of tradition, tourism, commerce, sports activities, and exhibitions, it’s estimated to herald billions of yuan in lodging, catering, transportation, enterprise actions, and tourism consumption.