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In 2007, China granted the United States “approved destination status,”
which opened the doors to Chinese group leisure travel to America beginning
in 2008. Last year, 1.5 million Chinese arrived on American shores, spending
nearly $8.8 billion, according to the Commerce Department. Today, around
150 travel agencies in the United States have the approval of the National
Tour Association, an American trade group, to organize trips from China,
many of them owned and operated by Chinese-Americans.
But the industry has experienced growing pains. Despite years of meetings in
China and decades of leading motor coach tours across the United States,
the travel agency AmericanTours International learned that Chinese tourists
required a special touch. For one, people from Beijing and Shanghai cannot
travel on the same bus.
“They clashed,” recalled Nick Hentschel, the company’s director of
business development.
Last year, 1,500 Chinese took the company’s “Hollywood to Broadway” bus
tour, a 20-day cross-country journey intended for mainlanders with stops
that included a Las Vegas casino; the bridges of Madison County, Iowa;
Niagara Falls; the White House; and the Empire State Building. |
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