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World’s Biggest Tourism Spenders Aren’t Traveling—and May Not for Years

Limited flights and other bottlenecks are keeping many Chinese from venturing abroad, depriving the world of needed spending

The sluggish recovery in Chinese travel abroad has disappointed those who had hoped for a faster rebound. wu hao/Shutterstock

Chinese tourists are slowly resuming international travel but it could take years for their numbers to recover to prepandemic levels, holding back a hoped-for windfall for the global economy as memories of Covid-19 fade

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