VANCOUVER – Travel agents in British Columbia are celebrating Beijing’s decision to resume group tourism to Canada, hoping for the return of big-spending Chinese visitors who were a dominant presence for the local travel industry before the pandemic.

Travel agent Glynnis Chan, president at Vancouver-based Happy Times Travel and Tour Ltd., has been leading group tours for Chinese tourists in the city for more than forty years.

She says she expects a big boost for the local economy after Monday’s decision by China to resume group tours that were halted in 2020 amid the pandemic.

Chan says the tourists she hosted would typically spend six weeks travelling Canada, estimating they’d spend more than $1,300 a day, with Stanley Park in Vancouver, the Rocky Mountains, and Parliament Hill in Otta

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