{"id":32338,"date":"2007-06-25T07:59:37","date_gmt":"2007-06-24T23:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2007\/06\/25\/3888-chinese-outbound-travelers-still-face-visa-fears\/"},"modified":"2007-06-25T07:59:37","modified_gmt":"2007-06-24T23:59:37","slug":"chinese-outbound-travelers-still-face-visa-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2007\/06\/25\/32338\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Outbound Travelers Still Face Visa Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new survey conducted by Chinese web portal Sina.com shows Chinese netizens still believe acquiring visas to travel overseas is fraught with problems.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>2,098 people took part in the survey, and only 15.78% of them thought it was easy to go through a visa application process and 29.3% of them found they were faced with excessive difficulties. When it comes to possible reasons for the difficulties, 60.29% of them think it is because many Chinese stay abroad beyond their allotted time limit, and 20.53% think it is the result of discrimination by Western countries.<\/p>\n<p>According to the American Embassy in China, the four consulates in China received 188,422 applications in the first five months of 2007 and 157,355 of them were approved.<\/p>\n<p>There are currently dozens of nations around the world that have Approved Destination Status for Chinese visitors. This allows Chinese citizens easier access and procedures when visiting those countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new survey conducted by Chinese web portal Sina.com shows Chinese netizens still believe acquiring visas to travel overseas is fraught with problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}