China is open, but no one is coming

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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,...