China Adds Canada and UK to 30-Day Visa-Free Entry List
Record 2 Million-Plus Daily Border Crossings Expected During 2026 Spring Festival
Condor Opens First Frankfurt–Haikou Service, Giving Hainan a Direct European Link
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Spring Festival Campaign Unleashes 360 Million Yuan in Tourism Vouchers for Visitors
China’s culture ministry is injecting 360 million yuan in vouchers and discounts for some 30,000 Spring Festival events, making payments easier for foreign travellers and encouraging post-holiday cultural tourism. Corporates should expect fuller venues and capitalise on subsidised rates where possible.
Spring-Festival boom pushes inbound travel to 2 million passengers a day, says National Immigration Administration
NIA predicts 2.05 million daily border crossings during the 15–23 February holiday, buoyed by expanded visa-free schemes and 240-hour transit waivers. Foreign flight bookings are up 400 percent, tax-refund purchases up 95 percent and digital wallets aligned with 40 overseas e-wallets. The figures highlight both opportunity and compliance risk for firms sending staff to China.
Macau logs 551,623 visitor arrivals in first four days of Lunar New Year Golden Week
Macau recorded 551,623 tourist arrivals between 15 and 18 February, with 186,600 on 19 February alone. While the tally is 8.4 percent lower than last year, volumes remain above 100,000 a day, signalling robust cross-border demand and faster recovery in foreign-visitor share. The numbers give mobility planners fresh insight into Greater Bay Area travel flows during Spring-Festival Golden Week.
Foreign tourists seek deeper cultural immersion as ‘China travel’ meets Lantern-Festival climax
A second Xinhua article shows inbound tourists moving beyond Tier-1 cities and standard tours, spurred by visa-free entry and social-media buzz. Charter flights and OTA data reveal demand for cultural immersion across 102 cities. The trend forces mobility programmes to extend support networks to secondary hubs and track new ‘international consumption corridor’ incentives.