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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nDespite the low numbers, the Chinese market accounted for 6% of total visitor spending in 2019; making them the second biggest spenders after the US. It\u2019s certainly not volume that makes Chinese visitors so valuable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It could be that 2021 will see the importance of Chinese tourists soar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Cost of 2020<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\nThis rise will largely be down to global economic performance this year. 2020 hasn\u2019t been a good year for GDP growth at all; in fact, almost every major economy in the world shrank in the wake of the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is a huge problem for the UK, as our biggest tourism markets all saw negative GDP growth. The US for instance, our biggest market by far, shrank by 4.3%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On top of this, skyrocketing unemployment rates due to covid mean far less people from these countries will be in a position to travel next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moreover, Brexit could throw up an additional barrier to visitor numbers going into 2021 as free movement ends and no deal looms. Losing visa free travel in the event of a no deal could see a sharp drop in visits from Europe as short-haulers opt to visit Schengen areas. EU countries provided 70% of our inbound tourism in 2019, so we would certainly feel this loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All of these factors could very well translate into a sharp decline in trips made from our traditional tourism markets in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is one notable exception to this; the IMF actually projected China\u2019s economy to grow this year by 1.9%, making it the only major economy to do so. This growth may be far slower than recent years, even small growth puts the average Chinese consumer in a better position to travel than those in other countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
China to the Rescue?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\nAll things considered, China has fared well in the pandemic. Since March, life has been slowly getting back to normal, and the country has even seen a surprising rebound of its domestic tourism market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s clear from the huge number of domestic tourists travelling in early September that Chinese consumers are still keen to travel. Furthermore, an August study by McKinsey revealed a growing confidence in travelling overseas, showing that 31% of respondents expected to take their next trip abroad; an increase of 6% since March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We\u2019re very unlikely to see a full recovery until a vaccine is rolled out. But with fewer visitors from the US and Europe, Chinese travellers could provide a valuable lifeline to our flagging tourism industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There is one notable exception to this; the IMF actually projected China\u2019s economy to grow this year by 1.9%, making it the only major economy to do so. This growth may be far slower than recent years, even small growth puts the average Chinese consumer in a better position to travel than those in other countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[14,15],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corporate-blog","tag-chinese-tourists","tag-uk-tourism","clearfix","post-index"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/beiwei55.co.uk\/corporate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/11\/IMG_2115Resized-1-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8q5OR-dP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beiwei55.co.uk\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beiwei55.co.uk\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beiwei55.co.uk\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beiwei55.co.uk\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beiwei55.co.uk\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/beiwei55.co.uk\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2100,"href":"http:\/\/beiwei55.co.uk\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions\/2100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beiwei55.co.uk\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beiwei55.co.uk\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beiwei55.co.uk\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beiwei55.co.uk\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
All things considered, China has fared well in the pandemic. Since March, life has been slowly getting back to normal, and the country has even seen a surprising rebound of its domestic tourism market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s clear from the huge number of domestic tourists travelling in early September that Chinese consumers are still keen to travel. Furthermore, an August study by McKinsey revealed a growing confidence in travelling overseas, showing that 31% of respondents expected to take their next trip abroad; an increase of 6% since March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We\u2019re very unlikely to see a full recovery until a vaccine is rolled out. But with fewer visitors from the US and Europe, Chinese travellers could provide a valuable lifeline to our flagging tourism industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There is one notable exception to this; the IMF actually projected China\u2019s economy to grow this year by 1.9%, making it the only major economy to do so. This growth may be far slower than recent years, even small growth puts the average Chinese consumer in a better position to travel than those in other countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[14,15],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corporate-blog","tag-chinese-tourists","tag-uk-tourism","clearfix","post-index"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/beiwei55.co.uk\/corporate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/11\/IMG_2115Resized-1-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8q5OR-dP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beiwei55.co.uk\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beiwei55.co.uk\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beiwei55.co.uk\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beiwei55.co.uk\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beiwei55.co.uk\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/beiwei55.co.uk\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2100,"href":"http:\/\/beiwei55.co.uk\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions\/2100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beiwei55.co.uk\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beiwei55.co.uk\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beiwei55.co.uk\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beiwei55.co.uk\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}