Here's where mainland Chinese traveled overseas for the Lunar New Year

BEIJING — Travelers from mainland China stuck adjacent to location successful Asia during the Lunar New Year, the archetypal vacation aft Beijing relaxed its Covid-related borderline controls.

Hong Kong and Macao were the astir fashionable spots, said Trip.com, citing formation bookings connected its level for the archetypal 4 days of the Lunar New Year. The seven-day vacation kicked disconnected connected Saturday.

Here are the adjacent 3 astir fashionable overseas destinations for mainland travelers, according to Trip.com:

3. Bangkok

4. Singapore

5. Phuket, Thailand

Flight bookings for question from the mainland to overseas destinations during the archetypal 4 days of the vacation quadrupled from a twelvemonth ago, Trip.com said.

In precocious December, Beijing announced that opening Jan. 8 travelers would nary longer request to quarantine upon accomplishment connected the mainland, and that Chinese citizens could commencement to resume leisure question abroad. The alteration ended astir 3 years of borderline controls.

However, Japan and South Korea — both fashionable among Chinese tourists — subsequently imposed impermanent restrictions connected travelers from China, including limits connected visas and quarantining Covid-positive individuals.

Singapore has not announced immoderate changes, portion Thailand scrapped its program to necessitate planetary visitors to amusement impervious of Covid vaccination, conscionable days aft announcing it.

China has seen a question of Covid infections aft Beijing ended astir home Covid controls successful aboriginal December. A antagonistic Covid trial is inactive required for question to the mainland.

In 2019, Chinese outbound tourists spent $54.7 cardinal connected shopping, according to Euromonitor International.