China's outbound tourism market has recovered with outbound destinations receiving 40.37 million trips from the Chinese mainland in the first half of this year, according to China Tourism Academy's official WeChat account.
Short-distance outbound travel was the first to recover, with 93.9% of tourists concentrated in Asia, said the report released on Sunday.
From the perspective of popular areas for outbound tourism, tourists preferred East Asia and Southeast Asia, of which East Asia received the largest number of tourists from the Chinese mainland, accounting for 83.92%.
In the first half of this year, passenger traffic on international routes recovered to 23% of that in 2019.
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