{"id":33532,"date":"2006-06-15T09:21:36","date_gmt":"2006-06-15T01:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2006\/06\/15\/australia-and-new-zealand-open-doors-to-chinese-travelers\/"},"modified":"2006-06-15T09:21:36","modified_gmt":"2006-06-15T01:21:36","slug":"australia-and-new-zealand-open-doors-to-chinese-travelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2006\/06\/15\/33532\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia And New Zealand Open Doors To Chinese Travelers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The China National Travel Administration (CNTA) says that from August 1, 2006, Australia and New Zealand travel will be opened to all Chinese citizens in mainland China.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Previously, travel to these two countries was limited to only residents of nine Chinese cities including Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.<\/p>\n<p>Australia and New Zealand travel was opened on a trial basis in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou in August 1999. By July 2004, it was extended to six other regions and cities including Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Chongqing.<\/p>\n<p>After August 1, citizens from all over China will be able to apply for an ADS visa. It will take only one week to do so in comparison to the one month in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, 285,000 tourists from China visited Australia, an increase of 13% compared with the previous year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The China National Travel Administration (CNTA) says that from August 1, 2006, Australia and New Zealand travel will be opened to all Chinese citizens in mainland China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33532","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=33532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}