{"id":11149,"date":"2020-10-22T21:17:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T21:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=11149"},"modified":"2026-04-24T00:45:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T03:45:22","slug":"china-keeps-ban-on-inbound-and-outbound-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/china-keeps-ban-on-inbound-and-outbound-tourism","title":{"rendered":"China keeps ban on inbound and outbound tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Group tours and flight plus hotel package bookings on the mainland will remain&nbsp;forbidden&nbsp;due to continued Covid-19 concerns.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>China.-\u00a0China\u2019s Ministry of Culture and Tourism has announced it will maintain a ban on inbound and outbound group tourism.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Package tours and the sale of flights and hotels deals are not allowed to resume for now. Agencies and online booking websites&nbsp;must comply with the regulation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The authorities fear the novel coronavirus will hit again in the upcoming cooler months.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wong Fai, director of the Travel Industry Council of Macau, told&nbsp;GGRAsia&nbsp;that the ministry\u2019s announcement &#8220;just adds to more bad news for the sector.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China&#8217;s Individual Visit Scheme (IVS) for visas to Macau is resumed on <strong><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/bernstein-still-no-obvious-recovery-in-macau\" target=\"_blank\">September 23<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. Individual visitors can visit Macau through the current travel bubble but group tours are not allowed.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Group tours and flight plus hotel package bookings on the mainland will remain&nbsp;forbidden&nbsp;due to continued Covid-19 concerns.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"China's Ministry of Culture and Tourism has extended its ban on inbound and outbound group tourism and package deals, citing ongoing COVID-19 concerns. This regulatory decision, despite the resumption of Individual Visit Scheme (IVS) visas for Macau, significantly curtails mass-market visitation, posing continued headwinds for Macau's gaming and hospitality sectors.","focusai_entities":"China\u2019s Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Travel Industry Council of Macau, Wong Fai, GGRAsia","focusai_location":"China, Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.8), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Projected GGR Impact?","query":"What is the revised GGR forecast for Macau's mass market segment given the extended group tour prohibition?"},{"label":"Operator Strategic Adjustments?","query":"What strategic adjustments are Macau's integrated resort operators implementing to mitigate the revenue impact from the sustained group tour ban?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,16338,156,158],"tags":[227],"class_list":["post-11149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news","category-east-asia-news","category-regulation-news","category-slider-home","tag-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11149"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19684,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11149\/revisions\/19684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}