Just 52,000 tourists on trips organized by travel agents visited China in the first quarter, per the WSJ.
A struggling tourism sector will not help China's economy shake off its slowdown.
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"The number of visitors from Europe, America, Japan and Korea are all dropping, substantially," said Xiao Qianhui, a director of the China Tourism Association, in May.
But the lack of international appetite for visiting China will not do anything to boost the economy.
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