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Further expansion of outbound team tour destinations

Yesterday, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism issued a notice on the resumption of travel agencies operating group tours for Chinese citizens traveling abroad to relevant countries and regions. Starting today, national travel agencies and online tourism enterprises will resume operating group tours and "flight+hotel" services for Chinese citizens traveling abroad to relevant countries and regions. At present, the list of pilot outbound team tour countries has increased to 138 countries and regions.

After the news was released, the instantaneous search volume of Ctrip's outbound travel products increased by more than 20 times, with the National Day departure period being the most popular, and the popularity of group products in countries such as Japan, Australia, and New Zealand skyrocketing; On the same trip voucher, Türkiye and Australia have the highest search and consultation popularity; The average increase in geothermal energy for overseas destinations within Mafengwo Station exceeds 150%, with Japan ranking first with an instantaneous visit heat of up to 350%.

After the notice is issued, Ctrip plans to launch relevant outbound travel products in multiple countries such as Japan, Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany, Israel, the United States, Morocco, and India as soon as possible. It is expected to launch the first group tour in Japan in September, and the first group tour in Australia, Morocco, and Israel will be launched around National Day. Spring and Autumn tourism launched group tours in Austria, Japan, South Korea, and Australia as soon as possible, and subsequent products are still being launched one after another; The same journey travel platform has launched visa products for all outbound countries. Among the newly opened destination countries, outbound group tour products for popular destinations such as Türkiye, Australia, Japan and Northern Europe have been launched.

According to the "Big Data Report on Outbound Tourism in the First Half of 2023" recently released by the China Tourism Research Institute, outbound tourism destinations received a total of 40.37 million mainland tourists in the first half of the year. Short distance outbound tourism is the first to recover, with 93.95% of tourists concentrated in the Asian region. Xie Xiaoqing, senior researcher at Ctrip Research Institute, introduced that with the recovery of flight capacity, the cost of outbound travel for tourists has significantly decreased compared to the beginning of the year. According to Ctrip data, the average price of cross-border air tickets including tax in January was still 136% higher than the same period in 2019, and the average price of cross-border air tickets including tax in July was only 29% higher than the same period in 2019.

Feng Rao, President of Ma Fengwo Tourism Research Institute, said, "Before the epidemic, China had been the world's largest outbound tourism market for many consecutive years. Although the summer vacation is coming to an end, this opening will have a significant impact on tourists' tourism consumption decisions during the 'National Day' holiday to some extent. It is expected that the outbound tourism market will reach its peak during the 'National Day' holiday."

§Shencheng

● Recently, the Economic Investigation Team of Shanghai Public Security Bureau cracked a case of illegal foreign exchange trading, and arrested 5 suspect including He, with the amount involved exceeding 100 million yuan.

After three years, the "Golden Magnolia" Shanghai International Puppetry Art Festival will return from September to December. It will be adjusted from biennial to annual, and the first "International Fine Puppetry Art Exhibition" will be launched, creating a new pattern of "double event single exhibition" Shanghai International Puppetry Art Exchange.

On August 8th, nine departments including taxation, courts, and procuratorates in Qingpu, Shanghai, Wujiang, Jiangsu, and Jiashan, Zhejiang jointly signed the Implementation Opinions on Judicial Enforcement and Tax Collection Cooperation in the Yangtze River Delta Ecological Green Integration Development Demonstration Zone.

§domestic

To better stimulate market vitality, enhance trading convenience and smoothness, the Shanghai Stock Exchange and Shenzhen Stock Exchange announced on the 10th that they will accelerate the launch of a series of practical measures in improving trading systems and optimizing trading supervision.

Affected by Typhoon "Dussuri", the Haihe River Basin experienced severe flooding disasters, and some rivers in the Songhua River Basin, Jin River, and Dong River experienced floods above the warning water level, causing serious damage to water conservancy engineering facilities in some areas. On the 10th, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Water Resources issued 1.505 billion yuan of water conservancy disaster relief funds to support 13 disaster stricken areas in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Henan, Guangdong and other provinces for the repair of water conservancy engineering facilities such as Rivers and Lakes dams, reservoirs and their culverts, pump stations, and river projects, and help the disaster stricken areas recover production and living order as soon as possible after the disaster.

In recent days, officers and soldiers of the People's Liberation Army and the People's Armed Police Force have been constructing embankments, defending against dangerous situations, diverting people, facing floods, and making every effort to ensure the safety of people's lives and property.

On the morning of the 10th local time, the Chinese Navy's "Peace Ark" hospital ship docked at Vila Port in the Republic of Vanuatu successfully performed a rare surgery to remove a huge thyroid tumor on the main platform. The surgery was jointly performed by military doctors from China and Vanuatu, and the patient's postoperative condition was good.

§International

On the late night of the 9th, the Pakistani Presidential Office announced that President Alvi has officially approved the dissolution of the National Assembly.

According to a report by KCNA on the 10th, the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea held an expanded meeting on the 9th to discuss further strengthening military readiness in response to the severe political and military situation in the Korean Peninsula region.

On the 10th, Niger's coup soldiers announced on national television a decree signed by their leader Abdulrahman Chiani, announcing the establishment of a new government.

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar stated at the 36th Asia Pacific Roundtable Forum on the 10th that economic sanctions, export restrictions, and other measures will not only have adverse effects on the global supply chain, but also pose obstacles to the overall trend of global economic cooperation. In a world full of various uncertain factors, there is an urgent need to strengthen cooperation between countries and further promote international fairness.

On the 10th, Montenegrin President Milatovic nominated Miloko Spaic, the leader of the "European Now" movement, as Prime Minister in the capital Podgorica.

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