Local tourism industry navigates political spat with China

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Canada maintains a travel advisory for China due to the “risk of arbitrary enforcement of local laws,” and China warns its citizens to approach traveling in Canada with caution.

Canadian travel agencies are quietly resuming tourism promotions in China, even as Ottawa maintains a travel advisory for that country in the wake of recent bilateral tensions.

Luo says he is pleased that government agencies such as Destination Canada and other provincial organizations have resumed promoting Canada as a vacation destination. “For this summer, we haven’t heard a lot from Chinese operators,” he said. “We are trying to contact them, but we just haven’t heard back from them.”

China has a history of mobilizing consumers for nationalistic goals, sometimes very effectively, she said, but such efforts don’t always work.

 

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