{"id":9189,"date":"2026-05-07T17:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/?p=9189"},"modified":"2026-05-07T17:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:26:09","slug":"posters-chinas-holiday-travel-surges-as-visa-free-arrivals-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/posters-chinas-holiday-travel-surges-as-visa-free-arrivals-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Posters: China&#8217;s holiday travel surges as visa-free arrivals rise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Posters: China&#8217;s holiday travel surges as visa-free arrivals rise<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20260506\/6f29d783a72d44ce9b816653985e4a23\/c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Posters:%20China's%20holiday%20travel%20surges%20as%20visa-free%20arrivals%20rise&amp;url=https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20260506\/6f29d783a72d44ce9b816653985e4a23\/c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20260506\/6f29d783a72d44ce9b816653985e4a23\/c.html\"><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/service.weibo.com\/share\/share.php?title=Posters:%20China's%20holiday%20travel%20surges%20as%20visa-free%20arrivals%20rise&amp;url=https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20260506\/6f29d783a72d44ce9b816653985e4a23\/c.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20260506\/6f29d783a72d44ce9b816653985e4a23\/202605066f29d783a72d44ce9b816653985e4a23_3e77868434014dd28f3670e73a1f0a76.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BEIJING, May 6 (Xinhua) &#8212; China saw a surge in cross-border travel during the May Day holiday, with nearly 11.3 million trips recorded, as an uptick in international visitors, including those entering visa-free, added to the increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20260506\/6f29d783a72d44ce9b816653985e4a23\/202605066f29d783a72d44ce9b816653985e4a23_911af18d97804cd4a24534f047892591.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Trips by foreign nationals to and from China rose to 1.26 million during the holiday, a 12.5 percent increase from a year earlier. Among those entering China, 436,000 came visa-free, up 14.7 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20260506\/6f29d783a72d44ce9b816653985e4a23\/202605066f29d783a72d44ce9b816653985e4a23_fb3102c1699a4082900e642d5018a92e.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>China has expanded visa-free policies in recent years, allowing longer stays and wider travel, while also introducing conveniences such as instant tax refunds for departing visitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posters: China&#8217;s holiday travel surges as visa-free arrivals rise BEIJING, May 6 (Xinhua) &#8212; China&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9190,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9189\/revisions\/9190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}