China is keeping group tour restrictions on Canada. What will the impact be?

recent decision to keep group tour travel restrictions on Canada as it loosens pandemic-era measures is a blow to Canadian tourism, industry groups say.

The continued restrictions are already impacting the Canadian tourism industry because there aren’t as many flights as there previously were, says one travel expert.“It’s tough on the Canadian tourism industry because second to the U.S., China has the biggest spend here,” travel consultant Claire Newell told Global News.British Columbia is a big tourist destination for Chinese visitors coming to Canada.

Even so, the federal government says that by the end of last year, 93 per cent of tourism businesses in the country were back at their 2019 levels. This comes as relations between the two countries have soured following reports of allegations of Chinese interference in Canadian politics.

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