STORY: Dutch tourism official hails China's visa-free policy
SHOOTING TIME: May 14, 2024
DATELINE: May 16, 2024
LENGTH: 0:00:40
LOCATION: THE HAGUE, the Netherlands
CATEGORY: ECONOMY

SHOTLIST:
1. SOUNDBITE (English): FRANK RADSTAKE, Director of the Dutch Association of Travel Agents and Tour Operators (ANVR)

STORYLINE:

A Dutch tourism official has welcomed China's visa-free policy, expressing expectations for deeper Sino-Dutch tourism cooperation in a recent interview with Xinhua.

SOUNDBITE (English): FRANK RADSTAKE, Director of the Dutch Association of Travel Agents and Tour Operators (ANVR)
"We organized 300 biggest tour operators and travel agents in the Netherlands and more than half of them offer, or to offer trips to China. 
It's absolutely a brilliant step by the Chinese government to offer this free visa policy. I think we're all very happy with it. 
We know that our members organizing trips to China for the clients would like to have a longer period, because people don't want to go to China for just two weeks. They want to go to China for a much longer period to see much more of the beauty that China has to offer. It would be completely helpful if that two-week period would be extended."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from The Hague, the Netherlands.
(XHTV)