SHANGHAI, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) — Tourism Plus Shanghai 2025, a complete annual tourism expo, is scheduled to happen from March 30 to April 3 this yr. It is anticipated to achieve a file scale amid a rising China-travel wave.
Spanning three venues throughout town, the occasion could have a complete exhibition space of 700,000 sq. meters and over 6,000 exhibitors, and is anticipated to attract greater than 450,000 guests from over 140 nations and areas.
According to the organizers, the expo will function 4 main exhibitions overlaying 14 key industries, together with tourism, hospitality, food and drinks, retail, business actual property and well being, throughout 48 area of interest sectors.
Exhibitors from nations resembling Germany, Italy, Spain, Slovenia, Japan, the Republic of Korea (ROK) and Vietnam have already registered for this yr’s occasion.
After China expanded its visa-free entry coverage in November 2024, “China travel” went viral on international social media, notably in close by nations like Japan and the ROK.
With extra flights and improved infrastructure and providers, weekend tourism within the jap metropolis of Shanghai is changing into a pattern amongst vacationers from the 2 nations.
From November to close the tip of December final yr, 363,000 vacationers from the ROK and Japan arrived in or departed from two worldwide airports in Shanghai, in keeping with the Shanghai General Station of Immigration Inspection. The determine elevated by greater than 20 % from the whole for September and October.