Visa delays and insufficient flight capacity have held back a full recovery in China’s outbound travel after the Covid-19 pandemic, according tothe CEO of Trip.com Group, the country’s largest online travel agency.
“There are two major hurdles for the recovery – the first is visa restriction, and the second is flight capacity,” Jane Sun said at a media briefing in Shanghai on Thursday. “I am hoping these two bottlenecks ease and we are able to bring more [Chinese] customers to different countries.”
The release of pent-up overseas travel demand is “creating a strong trajectory” for Trip.com, but the company remains cautiously optimistic because of the gloomy economic outlook, she added.
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