Australians Increasingly Traveling Abroad
Skift Take
- China’s southern city of Shenzhen has three neighborhoods that are the latest to be locked down due to the spread of Covid.
- June data from the Australian Bureau of Stations reveals outbound travelers are growing at almost three times the rate of inbound as Australians continue to flock overseas.
- Macau’s hotel occupancy rate fell by -25.6 percentage points year on year on July to 38.1%. That was down a percentage point from June.
China’s southern city of Shenzhen has three neighborhoods that are the latest to be locked down due to the spread of Covid. One of those is Huaqiangbei, a busy shopping area home to thousands of stalls selling computer components, mobile phone parts and microchips. The lockdown in the three neighborhoods in Futian district, right now is for four days. Shenzhen reported a total of just 35 cases. Metal barriers, some topped with barbed wire, were erected outside some residential buildings to stop people from leaving. The districts of Luohu and Longgang also shut down all entertainment venues and public parks, banning gatherings from conferences and performances to square dancing. A Shenzhen official warned that the upcoming period would be the most stressful, high risk and grim period for epidemic prevention and control in the city. We’d ask how that is all working out for China, but you all know the answer already. It isn’t just Shenzhen as Sichuan reported a resurgence of the
