What countries are on the list of approved tourist destinations for Chinese citizens?
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- Aparna Patel
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- 25 Jul, 2023
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Based on my understanding of this page at China National Tourism Administration, there are currently 125 countries with Approved Destination Status. Google translates the page as “Outbound travel destination country where area business has been officially launched”, and the dates and countries agree with this paper from University of Hawaii (linked in Henning’s comment on the question). Since 2012 a few countries has been added. Below is the complete list of countries with Approved Destination Status as of August 8th, 2017, with the year the countries were added.
- 1983 Hong Kong, Macau
- 1988 Thailand
- 1990 Malaysia, Singapore
- 1992 Philippines
- 1998 South Korea
- 1999 Australia, New Zealand
- 2000 Brunei, Cambodia, Japan, Myanmar, Vietnam
- 2002 Egypt, Indonesia, Malta, Nepal, Turkey
- 2003 Croatia, Cuba, Germany, Hungary, India, Maldives, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka
- 2004 Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark,
Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Greece, Iceland,
Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Latvia, Liechtenstein,
Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mauritius, Netherlands,
Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Seychelles,
Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
Tanzania, Tunisia, Zambia, Zimbabwe - 2005 Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Brazil, Chile,
Fiji, Jamaica, Lao PDR, Mexico,
Northern Mariana Islands, Peru, Russia, United
Kingdom, Vanuatu - 2006 Bahamas, Grenada, Mongolia, Tonga
- 2007 Andorra, Argentina, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Uganda,
Morocco, Monaco, Namibia, Venezuela, Oman, Syria - 2008 French Polynesia, Israel, Taiwan, United States
- 2009 Cape Verde, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Ghana,
Guyana, Mali, Montenegro, Papua New Guinea,
United Arab Emirates - 2010 Canada, Lebanon, Federated States of Micronesia
North Korea, Uzbekistan, Serbia - 2011 Iran
- 2012 Madagascar, Colombia, American Samoa*, Cameroon*
- 2013 Rwanda*
- 2014 Ukraine*
- 2015 Costa Rica, Georgia*
- 2016 Macedonia*, Armenia*, Senegal*, Kazakhstan*
- 2017 Sudan*, Uruguay*
Starred countries are countries I’ve added based on my translation of the page of China National Tourism Administration, linked above. I’ve included the picture on that page below, feel free to improve my translations.
Credit:stackoverflow.com‘