Trip.com Sees China Potentially Easing Travel Curbs in 2022
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Six months or a year seem like way longer than that in the Covid era, and anything can happen in the interim. But it is significant that the executive chairman of China's largest online travel agency is postulating that inbound and outbound travel curbs could be softened next year.
The Delta variant and natural disasters, including flooding, rocked Trip.com Group's third quarter financial results, but the company's executive chairman held out hope that the Chinese government could ease international travel restrictions in the back half of 2022.
"Though some countries have tightened restrictions recently due to the omicron variant, the temporary turbulence will not change the ultimate trend of travel recovery," co-founder and Executive Chairman Jianzhang Liang told financial analysts December 16 in Shanghai. "Under normal conditions, we may see China gradually relax inbound and outbound travel p
