Outbound shopping tourism craze arises
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- Category: Ningbo Business
- Published: Tuesday, 20 November 2012 09:30
Outbound shopping tourism becomes popular as Christmas and also the yearly discount season of many western countries draw near. Statistics from a dozen of travel agencies in Ningbo show that itineraries for outbound tourism around Christmas have already been made out and consultations and bookings for European countries and the USA are on the increase.
The shopping tourism to European countries during Christmas has long been a main event for travel agencies. Traditional travel routs to France and Italy are still hot among tourists. The 11-day tour to France, Italy and Swiss become the hottest choice immediately when it was put in the market. The cost during Christmas is set to be around 13,600 yuan.
Given the simplified procedures for applying for the USA visa and the decrease of the exchange rate of US dollars, cargo sweeping tourists to America has increased significantly and consultations as well as bookings has continued to grow. Itineraries offered on such on-line tourism websites as tuniu.com have been revised to satisfy the shopping need of many tourists. For example, the 8-day long tour to the West Coast areas of America started from Shanghai, costing about 10,800 yuan, increased many shopping centers like the Outlets shopping mall and the direct sales center for Lynwood.
It is worth mentioning that HK also become a hot place for Christmas tourism. Gong Shiqing, the person in charge of outbound tourism in Zhelun Overseas Tourism Corporation, introduced that quite a few citizens had already booked tourism to HK in Christmas. The manager of Ningbo branch of Tuniu tourism website also said, “Tourism products for HK around Christmas are much more cost-effective.” Take the 4-day self-service tour to HK started from Ningbo as an example, the cost for Dec. 23 is about 3,000 yuan, covering the round-trip flights and the accommodation fee. The whole price will fluctuate a little bit due to the different accommodation fees in different hotels.
However, experts reminded that consumers should make schedules in advance, such as booking for hotels and tickets, in case that there would no tickets or hotels left.
