The Biden administration is weighing new precautionary measures for travelers entering the U.S. from China, where airline ticket sales are soaring following Beijing’s decision to reopen its borders to international travel.
If not booking tickets, clients are getting their paperwork in order, agents said. “The number of people applying for visas at embassies jumped quite a lot as soon as they heard quarantine-on-return was no longer necessary,” said Kang Yingzhang, who works at China Comfort Travel Group in Beijing.
The mixed feelings toward visitors from China illustrate how Beijing’s sudden reopening has created new and unwelcome risks for much of the world that long ago opted to live with the virus. It also serves as a reminder that Chinese tourists are the world’s biggest source of tourism revenue, together spending about $250 billion a year on average in the five years before the pandemic, United Nations data show.
Covid-19 cases in China have surged after authorities scrapped most of its restrictions, prompting residents to self-isolate and stockpile medication. WSJ’s Jonathan Cheng reports from Beijing on the risks that come with the country’s rapid reopening. Photo: Xiaoyu Yin/Reuters
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