{"id":533162,"date":"2026-06-13T09:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T09:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/533162\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T09:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T09:58:16","slug":"china-promotes-cruise-tourism-as-catalyst-for-economic-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/533162\/","title":{"rendered":"China promotes cruise tourism as catalyst for economic growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/travel-leisure\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Travel &amp; Leisure<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Easing overcrowding at tourist sites and boosting shipbuilding seen as added benefits<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/5\/1.jpeg\" alt=\"20260603 Adora Magic City\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Adora Magic City, China&#8217;s first domestically built large cruise ship, is capable of carrying 5,200 passengers. \u00a9 Getty Images<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">DALIAN, China &#8212; China is stepping up efforts to promote consumption through large cruise ships, positioning them as an alternative to the extreme crowding that often marks peak holiday travel. With consumer sentiment still subdued, policymakers are encouraging more relaxed travel styles to support economic growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Travel &amp; Leisure Easing overcrowding at tourist sites and boosting shipbuilding seen as added benefits Adora Magic City,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[174],"tags":[79,111316,381,5992,5781,179,18,7111,19,17,229402,5986],"class_list":["post-533162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-catalyst","tag-china","tag-cruise","tag-economic","tag-economy","tag-eire","tag-growth","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-promotes","tag-tourism"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116742214036493630","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}