China is open, but no one is coming

China, like the rest of the world, is being forced to recalibrate its tourism industry after three years of border closures and COVID-19 restrictions. Domestic tourism in a country of 1.4 billion people is making up a lot of the shortfall since President Xi Jinping wound back his zero-COVID strategy in January. And visitors from unlikely places are replacing some of those from the West, operators in China say. "It used to be US-centric but right now, and it is surprising, we are seeing a lot more interest from Latin America, the Middle East and even from Russia," Albert Ng,…