July has been the busiest month in recent years for Kent Cai, taking the jet-setting Zhejiang native to international cities such as Kuala Lumpur, Osaka, Macau, Jakarta, and Sydney, where he has hosted a total of six overseas study tours for more than 150 Chinese college students.
Following China’s lifting of travel restrictions early last year, students have gradually become more willing to splash out on such tours like they did before the pandemic. But in light of changes in visa policies and global inflation trends, the United States is not as enticing as it used to be.
