via WikipediaThe French newswire AFP reports that Chinese tourists are boycotting France as a holiday destination. Last year 700,000 Chinese tourists visited France.But many cancelled their trips after demonstrators disrupted the Olympic flame's passage through Paris in April, and travel agents in Beijing said they had now been advised to remove France from their destinations from this week.The decision of many individuals seems now to have been followed by also informal instructions of the travel authorities to the travel agencies in China, although there was no official confirmation of that.
"It is a catastrophic year for Chinese tourism in France," Philippe Yao, director of the China Comfort Travel agency in France, told AFP on Thursday.
I'm not sure how this would work out in real life, since most of the Chinese tourists come in tour groups that would include a larger number of tourist destinations in Europe. Cutting out Paris or France as a whole would not really be convenient. The number of Chinese tourists only going to France seems to be rather limited, but could still have an effect, althought the psychological and political effect seems bigger than the economic one.
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I sure hope those two countries have patched things up. That's a lot of revenue France is missing out on and that's one amazing place Chinese tourists are skipping.
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