Home Office ministers are to start talks with Chinese tour operators in the hope of setting up an easier visa application system for groups of high-spending Asian shoppers who are discouraged by the UK’s border bureaucracy.
The department has been under pressure from luxury retailers to streamline the process for Chinese tourists, who can enter most of continental Europe with just one Schengen visa and are therefore less likely to apply for a separate UK entry.
As a result France receives at least 25 per cent more Chinese tourists each year than Britain.
您已閱讀39%（558字），剩余61%（880字）包含更多重要信息，訂閱以繼續探索完整內容，并享受更多專屬服務。