How China Can Make Life Better for Foreign and Domestic Tourists Alike

Ivan P.L. Png August 26, 2024

South China Morning Post View Original Source

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What a difference a year makes. In June 2023, when my family visited China, we had to deal with a complex Covid-19 declaration, rely on my daughter-in-law to pay for purchases using her WeChat account and go through two travel agents to get our rail tickets.

Since then, China has dispensed with pandemic regulations, greatly liberalised visas for foreign visitors, nudged second-tier hotels to accept foreign guests and, importantly, WeChat has opened its payment system to international credit cards.

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