August 10, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China issued a notice related to the resumption of group travel business for travel agencies operating Chinese citizens to relevant countries and regions (the third batch). The list of countries includes Japan and South Korea. 

Mr. Zheng Weihang, Executive Vice President and Secretary General of CCYIA,  specially commented right after the breaking news: Cruises from China to Japan and South Korea could resume sailing, which will make Asian cruise tourism enter a new stage of development.

This exciting news provides brand new topics for the CCS16: How to resume cruising quickly between China, Japan and Korea? The next year which cruise ships would come back to the Northeast Asian market? How to design new cruise lines and new tourism products to Japan and Korea? After 7 years forbidden and the Epidemic, is there any new ports, new equipments, and new circumstance？Nov 25th-27th, Shenzhen, let’s explore more.