THE European Union is reworking its visa regime for Chinese tourists and is likely to propose a new visa policy in November.
According to a report by Xinhua news agency, European Commission (EC) vice-president, Antonio Tajani, said the EC aimed to make visa application easier for Chinese nationals, describing the current procedure as “time-consuming”.
He also proposed a pilot visa project to boost Chinese arrivals to Europe and Europe tourists to China during the 2015 Expo in Milan, Italy. The EC and China’s National Tourism Administration also sealed an agreement to cooperate for sustainable tourism, said the Xinhua report.
Tajani said this during his two-day visit to Beijing, where he and a 60-strong delegation from Europe met with Chinese officials.
Data from the United Nations World Tourism Organization has pegged China as the world’s largest source market for tourism in terms of expenditure, displacing Germany and the US (TTG Asia e-Daily, April 8, 2013).
