The summer travel season has seen a surge in demand for outbound travel, particularly to Southeast Asia. However, the recovery is still hindered by factors such as visa requirements and limited international flights, the Global Times learned from tourism platforms.

夏季旅游季，出境游需求激增，尤其是前往东南亚的出境游。然而，《环球时报》从旅游平台获悉，复苏仍受到签证要求和国际航班有限等因素的阻碍。

Graduation season and the summer break have seen a doubling in the demand for outbound travel compared to 2019, and orders for overseas travel services such as flights, insurance, and hotels have increased rapidly, according to online travel platform Trip.com.在线旅游平台Trip.com的数据显示，与2019年相比，毕业季和暑假期间的出境游需求翻了一番，航班、保险和酒店等海外旅游服务的订单也迅速增长。The current focus of summer outbound travel is on short-haul trips. Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand and Malaysia are the top five most popular destinations for visa applications during the summer season, Trip.com said.目前夏季出境旅游的重点是短途旅行。Trip.com称，日本、新加坡、韩国、泰国和马来西亚是夏季最受欢迎的五大签证申请目的地。Spring Travel has also seen an increase in demand for trips to Spain, Portugal, France, Switzerland, and the Balkans. Additionally, off-season trips to South Africa during the summer season have become popular.春季旅行对西班牙、葡萄牙、法国、瑞士和巴尔干半岛的旅行需求也有所增加。此外，在夏季的淡季去南非旅游也很受欢迎。Since the beginning of this year, China's inbound and outbound tourism has been gradually recovering in an orderly manner. A report released by the World Tourism Alliance showed the prosperity index for China's outbound travel market in the first half of 2023 exceeded the level of the first half of 2019.今年以来，我国出入境旅游逐步有序恢复。世界旅游联盟发布的一份报告显示，2023年上半年中国出境游市场的繁荣指数超过了2019年上半年的水平。However, long-haul outbound trips are still limited due to the time-consuming visa application process for many European countries and the US, according to industry insiders.然而，业内人士表示，由于许多欧洲国家和美国的签证申请过程耗时，长途出境旅行仍然有限。For example, in Shanghai, it takes 117 working days to process a tourist visa for Germany, while Switzerland is relatively fast at 54 working days, a customer service representative for Trip.com told the Global Times.例如，Trip.com的一位客服代表告诉《环球时报》，在上海，办理前往德国的旅游签证需要117个工作日，而瑞士的速度相对较快，为54个工作日。Zhou Weihong, deputy general manager of Spring Travel, said that the limited reception capacity for Schengen visas in Europe has made it difficult to match the market demand.春运副总经理周伟红表示，欧洲申根签证接待能力有限，难以满足市场需求。”Although some countries have opened up for group tourism, they have not yet opened up group visas. These factors are affecting the progress of outbound travel recovery,” Zhou told the Global Times on Wednesday.周伟红周三对《环球时报》表示：“尽管一些国家已经开放了团体旅游，但他们还没有开放团体签证。这些因素正在影响出境游复苏的进展。”。FlightAI, a market insight platform, predicted that this year's summer outbound travel may experience "high inquiries, high ticket prices, and low capacity" compared to the same period in 2019.市场洞察平台FlightAI预测，与2019年同期相比，今年的夏季出境游可能会出现“高查询、高票价、低容量”的情况。Although the search volume for outbound travel in 2023 has exceeded that of 2019 by 16 percent, the capacity has decreased by 48 percent compared to the same period, it said.报告称，尽管2023年出境游的搜索量已超过2019年的16%，但与同期相比，搜索量下降了48%。Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese mainland had the largest outbound travel market in the world, both in terms of the number of trips and the total spending.在新冠肺炎疫情爆发之前，中国大陆拥有世界上最大的出境旅游市场，无论是出行次数还是总支出。According to a McKinsey report, in 2019, Chinese mainland tourists took 155 million outbound trips, totaling $255 billion in travel spending. China is also an important source market for some major destinations, making up 28 percent of inbound tourism for Thailand, 30 percent for Japan, and 16 percent of non-EU visitors to Germany.麦肯锡的一份报告显示，2019年，中国大陆游客出境旅游1.55亿人次，旅游支出总额为2550亿美元。中国也是一些主要目的地的重要客源市场，占泰国入境旅游的28%，日本的30%，以及德国非欧盟游客的16%。Spring Travel predicted that this fall will be a more suitable season and time for elderly people and young people to take outbound vacations.春运预测，今年秋天将是老年人和年轻人外出度假的更合适的季节和时间。”The weather will be more comfortable, and the scarcity of outbound tourism resources will also be alleviated to some extent,” Zhou said.

“天气会更舒适，出境旅游资源的稀缺性也会在一定程度上得到缓解，”周说。