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Increased visitor numbers at China’s Mid Autumn Festival
CGTN Europe
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18/09/2024
More than 5 million cross-border trips were made over the three days of China’s Mid Autumn Festival. Jacques Roizen, from Digital Luxury Group, talks us through its success.
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Mid-autumn festival in the Chinese calendar of milestone is an important tradition but
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it's not a gifting holiday.
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So it's first and foremost favoring experience and tourism.
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What we've seen in the last three to four years is a progressive shift by Chinese consumers
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of their disposable income towards more experience at the expense of luxury goods.
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And so a holiday like the mid-autumn festival is a great opportunity for consumers to experience
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food and beverage, tourism, hospitality, and that's what we're seeing in the form of a
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surge this year.
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Of course, there's a surge in international travel now that the borders have reopened
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and that international travel is resuming.
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That's not surprising.
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What's surprising is that we're continuing to see a growth in domestic tourism during
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this year's mid-autumn festival, which means that there's a really growing continued growth
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in the appetite of the Chinese consumer around experience, travel, tourism, not just abroad
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but also inside China.
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Is this just a correction post-pandemic or is there something new that's driving this
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growth in the last few years?
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I think this is a redistribution of their disposable income in the context of a new
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appreciation of what life has to offer, if you will.
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And there's a lot of enthusiasm behind experience and taking advantage of the fact that we are
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in a post-pandemic world.
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At the same time, let's be very clear.
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The appetite for luxury goods from Chinese consumers remains extremely high.
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Chinese consumers love luxury brands and love luxury goods and the desirability is not lower
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than it was in the past.
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What you're witnessing is a recalibration, first, of how they are allocating their disposable
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income and then the second thing is that as a result of the fact that luxury consumers
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are able to travel outside China, you're starting to see them spend money outside China as well.
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But at the end of the day, the Chinese consumer, regardless of where she or he spends their
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money, is a Chinese consumer and therefore needs to be talked to in China.
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And so what you're seeing is luxury brands, at least the leading ones, understanding full
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well that the spend by Chinese consumers may take place in different geographies and not
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entirely inside China.
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China is where you need to invest in order to generate brand awareness and desirability
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and you're seeing all the luxury brands, or at least the leading ones, invest significant
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amounts inside China in order to generate this kind of desirability, which is so critical
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to their revenue, not just in China but around the world.
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