{"id":138612,"date":"2025-10-17T14:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=138612"},"modified":"2025-10-17T14:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:30:08","slug":"the-great-mall-how-china-is-turning-foreign-tourists-into-shoppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=138612","title":{"rendered":"The Great Mall: how China is turning foreign tourists into shoppers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostForeign tourists in China are increasingly drawn to shopping, said Steven Zhao, CEO of China Highlights, a travel agency that organises tours of the country.<br \/>\n\u201cThey\u2019ll buy drones and take them back home,\u201d he said, noting the trend has become \u201cmore obvious\u201d over the past two years \u2013 especially among Middle Eastern travellers \u2013 as China produces an outsized share of the global total, with some devices small enough to fit in the hand.<br \/>\n\u201cDrone prices are cheap and the choices are numerous,\u201d he said,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3329459\/great-mall-how-china-turning-foreign-tourists-shoppers?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostForeign tourists in China are increasingly drawn to shopping, said Steven Zhao, CEO of China Highlights, a travel agency that organises tours of the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138612"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}