Category: Tourism

High Net Worth Shoppers are Spending Overseas Again

EXCLUSIVE INSIGHTS Revealing the Resurgence: Key Insights on May Holiday Travel China’s recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic has brought about a resurgence in travel, making it essential to prepare for the influx of Chinese travelers in Q3 and Q4. The May Holiday, April 29- May 3, provided an opportunity for Chinese citizens to venture out…
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CLA Launches Online Training Course

EXCLUSIVE CLA INSIGHTS Become China-Ready Today!CLA has launched the first in its series of online training courses: China-Ready Essentials which is available online for purchase. This course is designed for tourism executives, front-line staff, customer experience specialists, and marketing professionals in order to provide you with the fundamentals of welcoming Chinese tourists to your destination.…
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China Reopens its Borders with the End of Zero COVID

EXCLUSIVE CLA INSIGHTS China reopened its borders on January 8th – almost three years since China first went into COVID lockdown on January 23, 2020. With the reopening of the border, both Chinese citizens and other nationalities can enter and exit China without any quarantine or COVID tests upon arrival. China will resume the issuance…
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Cultural Tourism: Win Digital-Savvy Chinese Travelers in Post-Covid 19 Era

With over 150 million Chinese travelers recently cancelling their domestic & international trips due to coronavirus, the tourism industry – worth 10 percent of global GDP – is being hit hard. As a result, global human interactions are being pushed online; a transformation that took off in China years ago. Cultural institutions and tourism professionals now…
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The Chinese Traveler in a Post COVID-19 World

CLA shares data and insights from its ongoing tracking of Chinese consumer sentiment and its impact on the tourism sector. As the global tourism industry limps into a hesitant local and regional rebound with the onset of Summer, tourism destinations are anxious for the return of international travellers during the second half of 2020. China has long…
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7 Insights on Chinese Tourism from WTM London 2019

Stargazing is especially attractive to Chinese tourists in destinations like Nova Scotia (pictured). Photo courtesy of Tourism Nova Scotia / Photographer: Acorn Art Photography Original Article: https://jingtravel.com/moma-wechat-advent-calendar/ 13 Nov 2019 | Article by: Sienna Parulis-Cook Dragon Trail attended WTM London from 4-6 November, 2019. In addition to giving a keynote and running a panel on customization and personalization in…
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A Silver Lining: The US-China Trade War and Its Impact on Tourism

US-China Tensions and Chinese Tourism:  It’s not as bad as you’re hearing. It’s temporary. It presents an enormous opportunity. The recent drop in inbound international tourism from all countries has been among the most notable drags on U.S. exports, but there is a glittering silver lining, in the case of visitors traveling from China and…
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Upcoming CLA Speaker Events in London

World Travel Market London, November 6, 2019 Personalisation and Customised Travel: The Drivers of Asian Tourism Get up to speed on the latest news and trends in the rapidly developing Chinese outbound tourism market and digital landscape, and what these mean for tourism brands and businesses who want to tap into the world’s leading source…
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U.S. travel industry to Chinese tourists: What trade war?

A Chinese tourist takes pictures of Washington DC t-shirt at a tourism kiosk in Washington. Across the country, the U.S. tourism industry is trying to counter one of the casualties of the trade war with China that is still raging despite this month’s temporary truce: A drop in the flow of affluent Chinese visitors to…
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Chinese Outbound Tourists Survey 2018: Urban Millennials Lead the Charge to More Independent, Adventurous Travel

Scroll to the end of article for free report download! This report details the results of our fourth annual proprietary survey of Chinese overseas tourists’ travel and spending behaviors and preferences, undertaken in partnership with China Luxury Advisors. The top six takeaways from our 2018 survey are:  Millennials—those in their 20s and 30s—are changing the…
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