{"id":120847,"date":"2025-08-30T12:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T12:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/120847\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T12:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T12:47:07","slug":"why-chinese-tourism-to-us-is-still-rising-despite-trump-hard-to-replicate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/120847\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Chinese tourism to US is still rising despite Trump: \u2018hard to replicate\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Gao Huasheng, a university professor from Shanghai, began planning a two-week family holiday to San Francisco earlier this year, he worried about exposing his children to scenes of drug use or even gun violence.<\/p>\n

But in the end, the 44-year-old decided to go ahead with the trip \u2013 and his fears turned out to be misplaced. The family\u2019s visit to the Six Flags Discovery Kingdom amusement park and road trip down the Pacific coast went off without a hitch.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy children said it was exciting, not crowded and not hot,\u201d Gao said, referring to Six Flags.<\/p>\n

Many Chinese tourists appear to be making the same call in 2025: to travel to the United States despite a host of misgivings.<\/p>\n

Chinese tourism to the United States is up so far this year compared with 2023 and 2024 levels, confounding the expectations of many pundits. But industry insiders say a growing list of deterrents \u2013 from inflation and safety concerns to visa snags \u2013 still threatens to push the numbers downward<\/a> over the long term.<\/p>\n

In the first six months of 2025, the US International Trade Administration logged 755,225 arrivals from China, up 2.57 per cent compared with the same period last year. Arrivals reached 410,306 in the first half of 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Gao Huasheng, a university professor from Shanghai, began planning a two-week family holiday to San Francisco earlier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,77574,2356,144,77570,50759,8200,12,77569,38487,77573,7922,2402,3031,2005,3,5284,4633,77568,77571,21,19,22,20,25,77567,77572,21590,24],"class_list":["post-120847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-arches-national-park","tag-california","tag-china","tag-china-trading-desk","tag-chinese-tourists","tag-covid-19-pandemic","tag-donald-trump","tag-dragon-trail-international","tag-drug-use","tag-gao-huasheng","tag-gun-violence","tag-inflation","tag-los-angeles","tag-new-york","tag-news","tag-san-francisco","tag-shanghai","tag-six-flags-discovery-kingdom","tag-statue-of-liberty","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-immigration","tag-us-international-trade-administration","tag-us-visa","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}