Since the full resumption of China's inbound tourism in 2023, the number of overseas tourists visiting China has grown rapidly. The number of South Korean tourists traveling to China in January exceeded 140,000, up 908 percent year-on-year, China Media Group (CMG) reported on Monday.

China Tourism Academy said in a recent report that it remains optimistic about China's inbound tourism market, which is expected to recover to 50 percent of that in 2019 - the pre-pandemic level.

The number of tickets booked for inbound tourism during the Spring Festival break increased by more than 10 times compared with 2019 on domestic online travel platform Trip.com.

The main source countries were Japan, the US, South Korea, Australia, the UK, Malaysia, Vietnam, Canada, Thailand and Germany, according to a report sent from Trip.com to the Global Times.

Editor Ⅰ: Zhang Wenwen

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