{"id":4852,"date":"2023-02-07T05:48:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T05:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chinesetouristagency.com\/?p=4852"},"modified":"2023-03-07T13:04:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T13:04:05","slug":"asian-countries-strategies-win-back-chinese-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesetouristagency.com\/asian-countries-strategies-win-back-chinese-tourists\/","title":{"rendered":"The Asian countries strategies to win back the Chinese tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All Tourism Business around the world are so happy for the return of Chinese Travelers. In Asia specially, they offer special welcome packages and services tailored to Chinese unique experiences. They offer flower to new Chinese tourist at airport arival, or special prices and discound for Chinese tour.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The tourism industry must recover and Chinese generous shoppers are perfect fit to help local industry. The middle-class travelers market is changing, and Chinese outbound tourism market has become more activity-oriented.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0 Malaysian, Thailand, Vietnam have been hit hard\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year multiple catastrophes have hit the southeastern countries, scaring away Chinese tourists. Riots, multiple plane crash, a military coup. It is a hard hit for those countries hoping to take their share of the Chinese tourists spending.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But these countries haven\u2019t given up just yet, as a proof they are putting in place different strategies to get the tourists back.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/chinesetouristagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/where-is-MH3704.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4856 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/chinesetouristagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/where-is-MH3704.jpg\" alt=\"where-is-MH3704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chinesetouristagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/where-is-MH3704.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chinesetouristagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/where-is-MH3704-65x54.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In every Chinese memories\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Malaysia had it bad\u00a0 3years agoo year with the massive boycotts of its resorts and airlines after the crash of the MH370 worsened in April by the kidnapping of a Chinese tourist which translated into a 19% drop.<\/p>\n<p><blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"72tpG25TpC\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marketingtochina.com\/vietnam-becoming-hot-destination-chinese-tourists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vietnam is Becoming a Hot Destination for Chinese Tourists<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Vietnam is Becoming a Hot Destination for Chinese Tourists&#8221; &#8212; Marketing China\" src=\"https:\/\/marketingtochina.com\/vietnam-becoming-hot-destination-chinese-tourists\/embed\/#?secret=jEOIbwRfkB#?secret=72tpG25TpC\" data-secret=\"72tpG25TpC\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For Vietnam was the bad month with huge anti-China protests after an oil rig problem in the Vietnamese water that caused the death of Chinese workers followed by the massive evacuation of Chinese tourists. Mainland visitors rate were cut by 30% as a result and there was a 72% drop of visitors from Hong-Kong.<\/p>\n<p><blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"mjDpXxEzdD\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chinesetouristagency.com\/malaysia-will-welcome-chinese-tourists-in-2022\/\">Malaysia will welcome Chinese tourists in 2024, here is why<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Malaysia will welcome Chinese tourists in 2024, here is why&#8221; &#8212; Chinese Tourists Agency\" src=\"https:\/\/chinesetouristagency.com\/malaysia-will-welcome-chinese-tourists-in-2022\/embed\/#?secret=XCpEx01JBM#?secret=mjDpXxEzdD\" data-secret=\"mjDpXxEzdD\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These major catastrophes impacted the nearby countries since they were often part of multi countries tours. As an example Singapore saw a 1.7 YOY drop from January to May 2014<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tourism officials fight hard to win their most important customers back<\/h3>\n<p>Thailand tourism bureay has plan to receive a lot of inbound Chinese tourists in 2023, following a strong recovery in of their local tourism market.<\/p>\n<p>Yuthasak Supasorn, governor of Thailand&#8217;s Tourism Authority is very positive and explained that\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>2 million from the previous estimate of between 5 and 6 million for 2023. . Thailand is now expecting between 7 and 8 million Chinese Outbound Travelers.<\/p>\n<p>We hope that more Chinese tourists will choose Thailand as their top holiday destination, and we will also invite more Thai tourists to visit Shanghai and experience its distinct cultural glamor,&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>They have launch the Marketing Campaign &#8220;Amazing Thailand&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51647\" src=\"https:\/\/chinesetouristagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/amazing-Thailand.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chinesetouristagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/amazing-Thailand.jpg 940w, https:\/\/chinesetouristagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/amazing-Thailand-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chinesetouristagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/amazing-Thailand-768x346.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chinesetouristagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/amazing-Thailand-600x271.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Amazing New Chapters Roadshow to China 2023.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The event brought together travel agencies, partner, Tourism representatives from more than 62 Thailand hotels, duty-free shops, Tour operator, luxury resorts, entertainement &amp; attractions, and airlines to build relationship again with more than 200 Chinese local partners.<\/p>\n<p>Readmore\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"FIKUEXdCo0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chinesetouristagency.com\/5-reasons-why-chinese-tourists-like-to-travel-to-thailand\/\">5 reasons why Chinese like travel to Thailand<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;5 reasons why Chinese like travel to Thailand&#8221; &#8212; Chinese Tourists Agency\" src=\"https:\/\/chinesetouristagency.com\/5-reasons-why-chinese-tourists-like-to-travel-to-thailand\/embed\/#?secret=KZ75scAuJE#?secret=FIKUEXdCo0\" data-secret=\"FIKUEXdCo0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the Shanghai Administration of Culture and Tourism, Shanghai had 20 outbound tour groups within a week of February 6, with 15 groups travelling to Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even though the situation is bad in those countries they are not ready to give up just yet and are putting in place strategies to repair this PR disaster. Indeed for a lot of these countries the Chinese tourism is a vital part of their tourism industry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chinese tourists are :<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>1<sup>st<\/sup> largest group for Thailand and Vietnam<\/li>\n<li>3<sup>rd<\/sup> most important group of tourists in Malaysia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite its previous declarations about stopping all of its promotion efforts until the MH370 was found the Malaysian government resumed its efforts to conquer this vital client\u00e8le. The celebration of the 40<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of China-Malaysia relations was a golden opportunity for the Malaysian prime minister to go to Mainland China to tighten the diplomatic relations between the two countries. The second Malaysian plane however did not influence the Chinese tourism like this article from the <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3011538\/malaysia-airlines-ukraine-crash-china-response-mh17-russia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Time<\/a> shows.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Singapore, on the other hand took advantage of the poor situation of Malaysian Chinese tourism to launch a campaign whose objective is to convince the Chinese tourists to favour Singapore and simply ignore Malaysia.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Strong marketing campaign helps reduce the damage done by the catastrophes<\/h3>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/chinesetouristagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Vietnam.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4855 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/chinesetouristagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Vietnam.jpeg\" alt=\"Vietnam\" width=\"530\" height=\"353\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The military in Thailand have also their eyes on the Chinese tourism market with a visa fee waiving for Chinese tourist between the peak travel dates of August 1 and October 31 as a promotion move. The local tourism authority launched in parallel a shopping campaign offering many discounts, something that Chinese are always looking after. They also used a Key Opinion Leader, the Olympic Gold Medallist Guo Weiyang. In a PR effort they have invited the Chinese tourism officials to take part in various activities in order to demonstrate that visiting Thailand is safe<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What about Vietnam? Officials have focused their efforts on marketing activities to send a strong message of Vietnam as a safe destination<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">What is bad for one may well be a good thing for another<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While these countries had to set severe damage control campaign to win the back the heart of Chinese tourists others have been enjoying the increasing interest of mainland visitors for them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For instance Sri Lanka has seen a startling 137% increase in its number of Chinese visitors for the first part of 2014. Others wants to experience other destinations than the traditional Thailand and have chosen Bali instead. Thus the island enjoyed a 41% YoY increase of arrivals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cambodia was able to benefit from the problems in the standard destinations fro Chinese tourists by marketing itself as another choice for Chinese tourists. This success caused a 18\u00f9 rise in Chinese tourists arrival in April this year.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite all the bad, officials have optimistic forecasts for the second half 2023<\/h3>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chinesetouristagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Malaysia1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4857\" src=\"https:\/\/chinesetouristagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Malaysia1.jpg\" alt=\"Malaysia\" width=\"530\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chinesetouristagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Malaysia1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/chinesetouristagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Malaysia1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Finally, against all bets, the officials from the countries hit by the catastrophes of this year are optimistic and foresee a growth :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Malaysia is hoping for a whopping 2 million Chinese tourists<\/li>\n<li>Thailand predicts growth as well.<\/li>\n<li>Only Vietnam stays cautious in the potential number of arrivals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year has seen an important shift in the South eastern Chinese market that is difficult to measure in the long run. Will this shift cause a lasting change in the destinations most chosen by the Chinese tourists? It is hard to truly predict since there is so much competition and the hard data available is so small.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Digital marketing strategies to improve the countries reputation explained.<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What it is possible to do however is to understand how these country who took a hard hit in their image could try or have already tried to repair their reputation as tourism hotspots.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">From a digital marketing point of view you have the following situation :<\/h4>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>A really bad PR that needs damage control.<\/li>\n<li>Your tourists are customers very much into the digital world (China has more than 500 million netizens)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">How do you solve this problem?<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well as you have read in this article several steps must be taken :<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You must understand that the Chinese like to share their opinion and experiences about a wide range of topics. Here it will be about the turmoil that happened in those countries. You need first to have a damage control operation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51648\" src=\"https:\/\/chinesetouristagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Tourism-Marketing-China.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chinesetouristagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Tourism-Marketing-China.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/chinesetouristagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Tourism-Marketing-China-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chinesetouristagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Tourism-Marketing-China-1024x480.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chinesetouristagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Tourism-Marketing-China-768x360.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chinesetouristagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Tourism-Marketing-China-600x281.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">How does it work?<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When you type the countries names on Baidu, the most favoured Chinese search engine you will have all the bad comments about those countries on the first pages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Posting good comments in the relevant communities and social networks is a first step to push those back comments back away from the first few pages so that customers looking for a destinations or information about the country, like Thailand, Malaysia or Vietnam may not see those but only the good comments posted for damage control.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Managing discussions and promoting the tours via several means<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Online PR : publishing articles about the beauty and attractiveness of the different countries in trouble<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Using people of influence such as KOL like what the Thailand military did when inviting the Olympic Champion Guo Weiyang or the Chinese tourism officials. Their good opinion about the countries will be a key factor in restoring the reputation of the countries since they have a reputation, a credit that Chinese highly esteem.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, paying attention to how the Internet Word Of Mouth propagates through those actions will allow to correct and intensify the actions as needed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Further readings<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you want to know more about the strategies to attract Chinese tourists go <a title=\"Attract Chinese Tourists\" href=\"https:\/\/chinesetouristagency.com\/our-services\/\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>If you want to know more about the boom of Chinese tourists go\u00a0<a title=\"The boom of Chinese tourists\" href=\"https:\/\/chinesetouristagency.com\/boom-chinese-tourists\/\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>If you need help to boost your Tourism Business\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"xkuJPGAPgd\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chinesetouristagency.com\/our-services\/\">Attract Chinese Tourists with Marketing and social Media<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Attract Chinese Tourists with Marketing and social Media&#8221; &#8212; Chinese Tourists Agency\" src=\"https:\/\/chinesetouristagency.com\/our-services\/embed\/#?secret=0ckVzujEg6#?secret=xkuJPGAPgd\" data-secret=\"xkuJPGAPgd\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Tourism Business around the world are so happy for the return of Chinese Travelers. 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