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Coronavirus: China's tourism industry thrives as world battles COVID-19

Sky, 06 Sep 2020
Tourism across the world has been hit hard by COVID-19 but China has one key advantage - 1.4 billion people with nowhere else to go.

Domestic flights are back to 2019 levels, lockdown is long gone in China and people are keen to travel.

But with the pandemic raging abroad, with many popular tourist destinations keeping their borders closed and with the prospect of a two-week quarantine in a centralised facility on return, Chinese tourists are staying in the country.

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