The evening of March 31st
A tour group of 31 German tourists
Come to Nanjing and embark on a journey to enjoy spring
This is also the city's first time since 2020
Largest inbound tour to Europe
"Sehr schön! (Very beautiful)" At 21:30 that day, this group of German tourists took the Qinhuai painting boat, boat tour of the Qinhuai River East five miles route, looking at the two sides of the streaming Qinhuai lights, the feet of the sparkling Qinhuai River, they were very excited and exclaimed. "The lights and illumination of Nanjing at night are very beautiful and impressed me."
"There are 25 tourists over 60 years old in this group. During the 2 days and 1 night stay in Nanjing, the guests will tour the Qinhuai River, view the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, climb the city wall, appreciate the non-heritage, and savor the delicious food ...... to fully experience the ancient capital Nanjing's rich historical and cultural heritage and modern fashion." The tour's ground receiving agency, China National Travel Service (Jiangsu), said the person in charge of the inbound center.
On the second day of the trip, tourists carried out Citywalk on the city wall, "I love Nanjing" card frame to take photos, but also experienced paper-cutting, shaking bamboo and other characteristics of Nanjing's non-fangled heritage projects, to enjoy the performance of Yueju Opera, and Yueju Opera performers to communicate with the zero-distance.
In November last year, China decided to expand the scope of unilateral visa-free countries on a trial basis, to Germany and other six countries holding ordinary passports on a trial basis, visa-free policy. during the period from December 1, 2023 to November 30, 2024, theHolders of ordinary passports from the above countries who come to China for business, sightseeing, visiting relatives and friends, and transit for not more than 15 days can enter China visa-free.This move, travel agencies have said "welcome good", speeding up the organization of the pace of the German inbound group to Ningbo.
The 31-member German tour group that came to Nanjing is the largest European inbound group received by the city since 2020. "For German tourists, Nanjing is an ancient capital with both long history and culture as well as high-quality natural landscapes, with a lot to see and an overall good feeling about the tour experience in Nanjing." Since the fourth quarter of last year, the CITS (Jiangsu) Inbound Center has received a number of batches of German inbound tours, including both business tours to meet individual needs, private customized tours, small package tours, and tours organized by German travel agents.
Trendtours, a well-known German wholesaler of Chinese travel routes, organized the group in Ningbo. The group to Ningbo, the company's newly launched this year, including Nanjing trip series of tours of the first group, the annual plan to send 50 tours, has been scheduled to May.
According to Nanjing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism (NMBT), Germany has always been at the top of Nanjing's European inbound source market. At the beginning of this year, Nanjing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism officially resumed the project of German-speaking Europe Promotion Center.From March 5 to 7, Nanjing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism's German-speaking Europe Promotion Center represented Nanjing to participate in the world's largest travel trade show - International Travel Fair (ITB) in Berlin, Germany.On March 7, the Promotion Center jointly organized with VDRJ (German Travel Journalists Association), an important media organization in Germany, to promote Nanjing tourism to 48 media representatives at their breakfast meeting for the VDRJ Media Award Ceremony 2024.
Since last year, China has actively opened up visa-free access to many countries, and inbound tourism has continued to benefit. With the gradual expansion of the visa-free "circle of friends", Nanjing's inbound tourism has heated up significantly. From January to February this year, Nanjing received 51,500 inbound overnight travelers, an increase of 112.3% over the same period last year.
