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sdpapet 发表于 2019-5-16 15:13
不知道楼主哪里来的数据说中国人减少？旅游签证都同比增长了20%多，您还抱怨生意不好做，大环境不好？难道 ...
Slowing Chinese visitor numbers could be costly
Arrivals of Chinese tourists to New Zealand are slowing, according to data released by Statistics NZ.
While nearly 450,000 Chinese tourists visited New Zealand last year, a massive 7.3 increase on the year before, comparing the number of monthly arrivals with the year before shows three consecutive months of decline.
October 2018 saw a dramatic 8.7 percent decline on the year before, November’s arrivals declined 4.4 percent, and December had 3.3 percent fewer arrivals than the year before. It points to what looks like a disappointing summer season for the New Zealand tourism industry.
It also raises further questions about New Zealand’s trading relationship with China. Other popular designations like Australia and Canada, which have also had strained relations with China, saw visitor numbers increase over the period.
Australia saw arrival numbers rise 0.9 percent in October and 1.6 percent in November compared to the years before, while Canada saw a dramatic 17.4 percent increase in October, and a 7.4 percent increase in November. Neither country has published data for December yet.
New Zealand Tourism would not comment on the numbers.
'Costing the country more than it can afford'
News of the apparent decline comes after reports that Chinese tourists are being discouraged from travelling to New Zealand. The reports come in the wake of the GCSB’s decision to block Spark’s rollout of a 5G network using technology provided by Chinese telco Huawei, and New Zealand’s increasingly hawkish stance on China.
A speech given at Georgetown in the US by Foreign Minister Winston Peters and a Strategic Defence Policy Statement delivered in July by Defence Minister Ron Mark were widely perceived as being hawkish on China.
Last week, Newsroom reported Chinese tourists were being given apparently exaggerated information about the level of threat they faced in New Zealand, and the New Zealand Herald reported that Chinese tourists were patriotically boycotting New Zealand.
The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told media on Monday a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson had denied claims Chinese were unofficially sanctioning the tourism industry. They accused reporters of "making either a big fuss over nothing or harbouring ulterior motives".
University of Auckland politics and international relations senior lecturer Stephen Noakes said the slowdown in visitor arrivals could be a form of sanction, but it was difficult to tell for sure.
"The trouble is that there's really no way to know for sure, since the rationale behind any decisions on China's side is so opaque, and many stakeholders have reason to deny that there have been upsets in the NZ-China relationship," Noakes said.
"That said, if there has been a chilling of bilateral ties, I think these are minor. I do not expect any chilling that may be happening in the tourist sector to upend the NZ-China free trade agreement, or its upgrades," he said.
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