www射-国产免费一级-欧美福利-亚洲成人福利-成人一区在线观看-亚州成人

US EUROPE AFRICA ASIA 中文
Business / Industries

UK targets Chinese tourists

By Zhang Chunyan and Cecily Liu (China Daily) Updated: 2012-10-19 17:32

This summer, former British culture secretary Jeremy Hunt launched an 8-million-pound publicity blitz aimed at trebling the number of Chinese visitors to Britain to 500,000.

Huang Lin, in his 40s, who comes from Shanghai, says he is happy with the new proposal. "If the visa becomes easier, my family hope to travel to France, Britain, Germany and Italy next year," he says.

According to Cheng Xiaodan, CEO of London-based China Holiday Group, Chinese travel agencies will benefit from the proposed visa changes.

A delegation of around a dozen retailers and leisure companies, including Arsenal Football Club, Harrods and Selfridges, will send delegations to Shanghai in November as part of the UK's largest tourism mission to attract Chinese visitors.

Organized by VisitBritain, the trip will last three days, and is mainly structured around one-to-one meetings with individual tour operators and networking sessions.

"We will be meeting many top Chinese tour operators and will hopefully convince them to include Westfield as a stop in their tour packages," says Myf Ryan, UK marketing manager for Westfield shopping centers.

Although Westfield has already geared a considerable number of its marketing ideas toward Chinese residents and students in the UK, such as discount passes for VIP card holders and goodie bags for new students, Ryan says it is important to reach out to China's domestic market.

Selfridges sees value in conducting one-to-one meetings with tour operators in China.

"Consumers (in China) still rely heavily on agents and tour operators to book every part of their trip, from flights and accommodation to leisure activities," says a spokesperson for the company, adding that face-to-face meetings work best with Chinese tour operators.

"The face-to-face culture is very important in China, so conducting meetings in person is highly valued. Also, the effort to make the journey to China is appreciated and shows how serious a company is about doing business there."

Like Westfield and Harrods, Selfridges has begun to recruit more Chinese shop assistants and install China UnionPay terminals in recent years.

Despite these efforts, industry observers believe the road ahead remains difficult and some suggest Carrick's views are too optimistic.

"The changes being asked for are particularly significant ones," says Andrew Osborne, a partner at UK law firm Lewis Silkin.

"The UK government wants to be assured that people coming here on tourist visas will eventually leave, but once they are in the UK it is difficult to monitor them. So it is easier to check people before they come to the UK," he says.

The proposal would bring the UK's tourism visa policy closer to that of Schengen countries, which is a situation the British government has been trying to avoid. "The British government wants to maintain control of its own policies. They don't want to rely on other countries to control their borders," Osborne says.

Hot Topics

Editor's Picks
...
主站蜘蛛池模板: 国产午夜亚洲精品第一区 | 91成人免费版 | 欧美一级精品高清在线观看 | aaa在线观看| 欧美国产伦久久久久 | 不卡一级毛片免费高清 | 三级亚洲 | 国产在线综合一区二区三区 | 久草一级片 | 99久久免费中文字幕精品 | 国产成人精品综合在线观看 | 国产视频久久 | 中文字幕一区在线播放 | 黄色香蕉视频 | 亚洲成人在线免费观看 | 成人国产精品免费视频不卡 | 国产成人一区二区三区在线视频 | 成 人 动漫在线观看网站网站 | 欧美特黄aaaaaa | 成年人视频网站免费 | 国产日韩欧美精品一区二区三区 | 国产成人a一区二区 | 日韩永久在线观看免费视频 | 欧美在线播放成人免费 | 久操视频免费在线观看 | 久在草视频 | 国产成人午夜性a一级毛片 国产成人午夜性视频影院 国产成人香蕉久久久久 | 久久久久无码国产精品一区 | 成人免费网址在线 | 久久―日本道色综合久久 | 亚洲美色综合天天久久综合精品 | 欧美日韩一区二区三区视频播 | 亚洲成人一级片 | 黄色三级免费 | 亚洲欧洲无码一区二区三区 | 欧美亚洲国产激情一区二区 | 国产综合在线观看视频 | 91碰碰| 日本午夜三级 | 欧美一区二区在线免费观看 | 男女那个视频免费 |