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Warren Buffett earned $42.5 billion in 2020 and said, "Never be bearish on the United States."
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2021-02-28
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I worked as a tour guide overseas: I had to return home after losing millions
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The future outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic or other epidemics may have an adverse impact on operations.</p><p><b>Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting this year will be held in Los Angeles on May 1, instead of Omaha.</b>Vice Chairman Charlie Munger will join shareholders on stage to answer questions, while Vice Chairmen Greg Abel and Ajit Jain will also have time to answer questions.</p>\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c4c5593a8353a5ed6be8d5bb8e6cb2ff","relate_stocks":{"BRK.B":"伯克希尔B","BRK.A":"伯克希尔"},"is_english":false,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1121615825","content_text":"2月27日，巴菲特的伯克希尔哈撒韦公司公布了2020年四季度及全年财报，主要业绩为：2020年第四季度净利润（亿美元）：358.4，预期：53.1，前值：291.59。第四季度投资净收益304.5亿美元，去年同期为245.3亿美元。第四季度约有90亿美元用于购买股票，使今年购买股票总额达250亿美元。2020年全年净利润（亿美元）：425.21，预期：119.96，前值：814.17。2020年底的现金储备为1383亿美元。持股情况截至2020年12月31日，伯克希尔持有1204亿美元的苹果公司股票，此前截至9月30日持有1117亿美元苹果公司股票。伯克希尔公布的去年四季度末前十大持仓分别为：苹果（市值1204亿美元）、美国银行（市值313亿美元）、可口可乐（市值219亿美元）、美国运通（市值183亿美元）、Verizon通信（市值86亿美元）、穆迪（市值71.6亿美元）、美国合众银行（市值69亿美元）、比亚迪（市值58.97亿美元）、雪佛龙（市值40.96亿美元）、Charter通信（市值34.5亿美元）。巴菲特表态伯克希尔·哈撒韦公司CEO沃伦·巴菲特表示：永远不要“看空”美国。巴菲特称，公司在2021年回购了更多股份，未来很可能进一步减少其股份数量。未来新冠疫情或其他流行病的暴发可能对运营产生不利影响。伯克希尔哈撒韦今年的年会将于5月1日在洛杉矶举行，而不是在奥马哈。届时，副董事长查理·芒格将一同上台回答股东提问，副董事长格雷格·阿贝尔和阿吉特·贾因也将有时间回答问题。","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"BRK.A":0.9,"BRK.B":0.9}},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":3652,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":366597562,"gmtCreate":1614504987956,"gmtModify":1704772147177,"author":{"id":"3570289928640104","authorId":"3570289928640104","name":"原来的样子","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/54084e3c327465ae0ccf753edf41aa7d","crmLevel":7,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3570289928640104","authorIdStr":"3570289928640104"},"themes":[],"title":"","htmlText":"6666","listText":"6666","text":"6666","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/366597562","repostId":"1151429784","repostType":4,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":4195,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":319024269,"gmtCreate":1611446134251,"gmtModify":1704860277136,"author":{"id":"3570289928640104","authorId":"3570289928640104","name":"原来的样子","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/54084e3c327465ae0ccf753edf41aa7d","crmLevel":7,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3570289928640104","authorIdStr":"3570289928640104"},"themes":[],"title":"","htmlText":"☹️☹️☹️","listText":"☹️☹️☹️","text":"☹️☹️☹️","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/319024269","repostId":"1127071532","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1127071532","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1611363231,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1127071532?lang=en_US&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-01-23 08:53","market":"us","language":"zh","title":"I worked as a tour guide overseas: I had to return home after losing millions","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1127071532","media":"腾讯财经","summary":"我的车队，有一些车况不那么好的，目前大概卖掉了我车队的一半，当然疫情期间二手车也没有那么好出售，折价也高出平常，大概在6-7折左右。就这么过了一年，我还是熬不住了，这一年没有收入，等于损失了上百万人民","content":"<p>Some of my fleet vehicles are in poor condition, and I've sold about half of them so far. Of course, used cars aren't so easy to sell during the pandemic, and the discounts are higher than usual, around 60-70% off. A year passed like this, and I still couldn't take it anymore. I had no income that year, which meant I lost millions of RMB. In addition, the long break inevitably made me panic, so in the end I chose to return to China. The pandemic broke out like dominoes around the world, and even in 2021, the overseas pandemic showed no signs of abating, which severely damaged the global tourism industry.</p><p>Data released by the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) shows that the number of international tourists decreased by approximately 1.1 billion in 2020, a drop of between 70% and 75%. The loss of international tourism revenue amounted to $1.1 trillion, resulting in a global economic loss of $2 trillion.</p><p>When the nest is overturned, how can there be an intact egg? The outbreak of the global pandemic has also presented tour guides who previously worked in \"overseas travel\" with the most difficult year of their careers. For many overseas tour guides, this year may be \"zero customers, zero income\" or even unemployed. So how did these overseas tour guides get through this year? What difficult or interesting stories have happened to them?</p><p>After focusing on overseas home purchases and overseas real estate agencies in the previous two episodes, \"Personal Experience\" shifts its focus to overseas tour guides. This episode focuses on four tour guides who have long been engaged in overseas travel to France, the UK, and Japan. During the pandemic, some of them lost millions and had to travel back to China, while others used this free time to study short videos and maintain a normal income through e-commerce and promotion... The following is the \"pandemic story\" of these four tour guides:</p><p><b>1</b></p><p><b>In 2020, he was unemployed and lost nearly a million yuan at home. He sold half of his fleet before returning to China.</b></p><p>Narrator: Mr. Wang</p><p>Profile: Engaged in the tourism industry in Scotland, UK in 2005, receiving domestic tour groups.</p><p>I started working in the overseas tourism industry in 2005, mainly in Scotland, UK, and have been doing it for 15 years now.</p><p>I started as a single tour guide, and as I gained experience, I formed my own small company with a fleet of vehicles that would hire drivers and tour guides to serve domestic tour groups.</p><p>Before the pandemic, I would host about a hundred domestic tour groups a year, including companies, schools, MBA colleges, summer camps, business trips, exhibitions, and other tour groups of all sizes. They are basically busy from April to December, with a small peak around Christmas. They stay busy for about nine months, and the remaining months are the off-season for the whole family to rest.</p><p>Before the pandemic, our income wasn't particularly high, but we definitely had no problem supporting our team and family. Our annual income was around £100,000. At the same time, because we could take a holiday every year during the off-season, whether we were resting in the UK or returning home, we were living a relatively good life.</p><p>Unexpectedly, the entire year of 2020 will be shrouded in the shadow of the epidemic. First, there was an outbreak in Wuhan, China, and then recently there was a large-scale outbreak in the UK. It is conceivable that Chinese people will certainly not take such risks to travel overseas again, let alone to the UK. As a result, our tourism work has been completely suspended, and a large number of tour guides and convoy operators engaged in domestic tours to the UK are also unemployed.</p><p>Fortunately, the UK also provides subsidies to us and the tourism industry. This subsidy is 80% of your monthly salary in the month you previously filed your taxes, which guarantees that you will have a basic living income every month. For example, if you earn £5,000 a month, and you file your taxes normally, the government will only give you £4,000 in subsidies this month. Of course, the amount of subsidies may vary depending on the company's and individual's circumstances.</p><p>So when the pandemic hit, because I still had savings and government subsidies, my life wasn't really affected. It was like taking a year's vacation in the UK, tidying up the garden, playing golf, and so on.</p><p>The reality is that not everyone files their taxes normally. The tax rate in the UK is between 20-30%. For example, some tour guides wanted to keep more money in their hands before the pandemic, so they would report less tax or not at all.</p><p>However, the subsidy rule is that the more taxes you filed before, the more subsidies you can receive this time. If you didn't file taxes before, you wouldn't receive the subsidies and would have to rely on yourself.</p><p>Without subsidies and savings, even if there is a risk of infection, people have to find other jobs to do, such as working in Chinese restaurants, takeout shops, or delivering goods. Others will do jobs such as picking up international students at the airport, returning them to China, and moving them.</p><p>A friend of mine is like this. He was helping international students move and pick them up from the airport to return to China. Finally, in the car he was taking them back to China, one of the international students was diagnosed. He was terrified. Fortunately, he was okay in the end, but it also reflects the helplessness of his survival situation.</p><p>In addition, because I own a travel agency, unlike individuals, in addition to subsidies, the government will also provide me with an interest-free loan based on my turnover. If I need it, I will use this interest-free loan.</p><p>Of course, in order to reduce expenses, I am still doing things to ensure cash flow. For example, I have sold almost all of my fleet of cars that are not in good condition and need to be updated in the future. I have sold about half of my fleet so far. Of course, used cars are not so easy to sell during the pandemic, and the discounts are higher than usual, about 60-70%.</p><p>Regarding employees, since we don't have a long-term employment relationship with the tour guides, most of them are settled on a daily basis, meaning you get paid for each day you work. The team they work for isn't necessarily fixed, so I'm fine. I don't have to pay employees a fixed basic salary every month, which helps me somewhat.</p><p>However, a year passed, and I still couldn't take it anymore. I had no income that year, which meant I lost millions of RMB. In addition, the long break inevitably made me panic, so in the end I chose to return to China.</p><p>I first arrived in Beijing in mid-January 2021. I first flew to Shanghai and quarantined there for 21 days. I am currently under observation in accordance with Beijing's epidemic prevention requirements until the relevant personnel notify me that I can go out.</p><p>large reason for returning to China was my assessment of the UK pandemic. I think it will take at least 4-5 years for the UK tourism industry to recover to pre-pandemic levels. If I rely solely on the UK tourism industry, I will be unemployed in the next few years. Moreover, with Brexit, the actual impact on the local economy will be quite significant, and I cannot sit and wait forever.</p><p>I'm from Beijing, and my house and relatives are all in Beijing, so I've decided to go back to China and think carefully about what I want to do in the next few years.</p><p>However, returning to China for a career transition will be more difficult. Domestic travel agencies have also been impacted by the pandemic, and compared to domestic tour guides, I may not have more advantages. When I go to work for a company, I'm in my forties. I wouldn't be willing to pay 10,000 or 8,000 yuan, but I would be willing to pay 50,000 yuan. But why would a company want me? They could easily find a young elite, so I still need to find a suitable direction for myself.</p><p>It seems more realistic now that I might do some golf projects with friends. I've also visited many golf clubs and studied golf operations before. During this period, I also met many people in the domestic golf industry, so I plan to go to Shenzhen or Yunnan to operate a youth golf course or training ground. However, this is still a preliminary idea and has not yet reached the stage of putting it into practice.</p><p>As for the UK tourism industry, if the global pandemic improves, I will still return to this industry. After all, I have been in this industry for so many years and I love it very much. In order to better attract the clients I lead tours with, I have learned a lot about golf and wine, and I have also studied it in depth. I don't want to give up just like that. I also really hope that the pandemic will pass and overseas travel will rebound. But at least for now, this idea is a bit too optimistic.</p><p><b>2</b></p><p><b>When I have nothing to do, I focus on researching short videos; the pandemic has boosted the food delivery industry in the UK.</b></p><p>Narrator: Brother Bao from the UK</p><p>Profile: He has lived in the UK for nearly 20 years and mainly leads tour groups of Chinese people.</p><p>When the pandemic first broke out in 2020, the situation in the UK, Spain, and Italy was quite serious. I thought the pandemic would affect the European tourism industry, but I didn't expect it to last so long. I thought there shouldn't be any problems in 2021, but now I feel that this year will be tough too.</p><p>After the outbreak of the pandemic, many Chinese tourists stopped coming. The groups I handle are more upscale, privately tailored, as well as some large MBA study tours and business tours. There were still some family group tours in January and February 2020, but most people started canceling their bookings for March to May, and by the time the UK lockdown began in March, there were no more tourists.</p><p>Later, during the May Day holiday and summer vacation, the domestic epidemic eased somewhat, and some people came to inquire, but no groups were formed. All the tour groups, plus the summer camps, didn't come. We have many Chinese tour guides in the UK, perhaps three or four hundred of them full-time. Most of them have changed careers or returned to their home countries, so this incident has had a huge impact on the tour guide groups.</p><p>In addition, domestic tourism in the UK is also quite sluggish. The British are quite obedient to the government. If the government says the city is under lockdown and they are not allowed to move around freely, they will really stay at home and not wander around. Therefore, many tourist attractions in the UK have closed at all. Some major attractions, such as the British Museum, require online reservations in advance to limit the number of people and visitors. They also set up single-route tours to ensure the safety of visitors.</p><p>I went to Scotland in November 2020. It wasn't really a tourist trip, but I went there to run some errands and stayed in a hotel for a while. After staying for four days, I could feel the exploitation of the entire tourism industry, including the particularly luxurious hotels in the city center, which were very cheap. You could see that the exploitation was indeed terrible.</p><p>So from the tour guide's perspective, there was basically no business in the past year, and they could only do other things. I started making short videos in 2019, mainly to promote my travel business. Later, I did receive some customers from the platform, and my followers reached more than 300,000.</p><p>After the outbreak of the pandemic, I started to study this topic seriously, slightly changed the video style, and introduced the local customs and culture of the UK. Taking this opportunity, I built my account, which now has more than 2 million followers. So, I've essentially become a We Media resident now.</p><p>I monetize my videos through both e-commerce and advertising. In 2020, I took on some promotional advertisements, and the income was decent, on par with my previous income as a tour guide.</p><p>The government will also provide some subsidies. But for us, it's not really that much. In other industries, subsidies are basically 80%, such as hotels. However, for tour guides, salaries are not easy to measure because they are paid when there are tours, and not when there are no tours. The subsidies are not that much, and you can only apply for a small fixed amount.</p><p>There aren't many people around me who do personal shopping. I just have a few brands or merchants here who have mini-programs. I help them promote the mini-programs, and you can buy things on them. Actually, it's quite difficult to buy through personal shoppers these days. The UK pandemic is quite severe, and domestic consumers are quite worried about logistics. Many people in China are reluctant to buy things shipped directly back from the UK for fear of carrying the virus. So some of my personal shopper friends are also complaining.</p><p>The catering industry in the UK is also not ideal, because catering and tourism are also linked. Large luxury restaurants have been hit harder, but the government will provide them with some compensation and support. Some have survived, while others have gone bankrupt. However, food delivery is booming. The pandemic has changed the consumption habits of British people and local Chinese people. They are more willing to order online, and food delivery apps have also become quite popular.</p><p><b>3</b></p><p><b>Domestic tourism in France is particularly popular, with some rural guesthouses experiencing an occupancy rate of 120%.</b></p><p>Narrator: Mr. Y</p><p>Profile: Residing in France for decades, freelancing, such as contributing to domestic media and organizing business delegations.</p><p>For the past year, I have had almost no contact with any overseas tourists. There are two types of Chinese people who return to France. The first type is Chinese people who live in France long-term and return to France after visiting relatives or running errands in China. The second type is international students. If there are no other Chinese people, how could anyone still come to France for tourism in these extraordinary times?</p><p>There are fewer Chinese people, but domestic tourism in France is excellent. After the pandemic hit, international tourism suffered a loss of about 70% to 80%, but domestic tourism only suffered a loss of about 20%. Therefore, the revenue of the entire French tourism industry did not decline significantly, mainly because domestic tourism had a positive impact.</p><p>In 2020, most French people chose to vacation domestically. The characteristic of this vacation is the development of green tourism, going to less crowded places, including many Parisians who go to their second homes in the countryside or rent a house in the countryside and \"isolate\" there. This has led to the development of tourism in many remote parts of France. In addition, beach tourism was also quite popular last year, especially in summer, when tourism in the Mediterranean region was booming, with the French Riviera reaching 70% to 80% of its usual capacity.</p><p>There are also some scenic spots in big cities, such as the Louvre and the Palace of Versailles, which have been significantly affected. These attractions were closed during the French lockdown and will only open to the public after the lockdown is lifted. However, even if it is open, there are still people restrictions. You have to make an appointment online and calculate how many people can get in. These places are mainly visited by international tourists, so their overall revenue has dropped significantly, with the Louvre and Versailles receiving more than 50% of their revenue.</p><p>I saw international tourists in Paris, but they mainly came from neighboring countries: Belgians, Dutch, British, Germans, and Spaniards. These people came to France for tourism. Because Europeans still treated pneumonia like influenza, there was a period of time when the borders were not closed or checked at all. They came by car or train, and I even had the idea of driving to Italy for a trip. In June and July, Europeans feel that there's nothing to be afraid of, because you just need to wear a mask and be careful when you go to the hotel. That's what everyone thinks.</p><p>The Chinese tour guide industry in France is in decline, but there is a very important reason why people still feel they can survive: France provides very high levels of aid.</p><p>If you work in a travel agency and are employed by a company as a tour guide, the travel agency pays you a salary. During the pandemic, you will receive 83% of your salary, which is stipulated by the government, so you will not be significantly affected. If you are a freelancer working as a tour guide, the government will ease your loan burden and provide you with a subsidy of at least 1,500 euros per month.</p><p>Therefore, although tour guide business was sluggish in 2020 and income was not comparable to before, maintaining a normal standard of living was still not a problem. Medical resources were also quite developed, and testing was free whether you were sick or not, which was quite good.</p><p>I heard that some tour guides started doing overseas personal shopping this year, but the current situation is not something you can just do whenever you want. There are several important factors for overseas personal shoppers. First, you need to have your own customer base. Second, customs restrictions on personal shoppers are becoming increasingly strict. Third, many stores have closed during the lockdown period, making it quite difficult for you to do personal shoppers.</p><p>But if you run a bed and breakfast in the countryside, it will be quite good. France has a unique characteristic: in rural areas, farmers have the right to rent out their houses to tourists, and the government collects very low taxes to encourage rural tourism. Rural hotels have been very popular over the past year, with many popular tourist destinations fully booked during the summer, reaching an occupancy rate of around 120%.</p><p>However, Airbnb is relatively weak in rural areas. They mainly operate guesthouses in big cities, such as Paris, where there are very few tourists. As a result, the tourism industry in Paris is in a state of collapse this year, and Airbnb in major French cities has also been severely impacted.</p><p>The restaurant industry will be hit harder because the government allows it to operate for very few hours. Of course, the government subsidies are also very substantial. If high-end restaurants don't open, they can receive most of the government's loan assistance, and employees who don't work can also receive most of their wages. This is called technical unemployment benefits, which are borne by the government.</p><p>In addition, there were indeed quite a few mid-to-low-end restaurants offering takeout last year. Many restaurants in Paris that allow online ordering have appeared. Some restaurants, unable to open normally, have transformed into online takeout services. This is indeed the case.</p><p><b>4</b></p><p><b>We've been out of work for a year now, and we haven't seen any Chinese people fighting for masks in Japan.</b></p><p>Narrator: Mr. D</p><p>Profile: Arrived in Japan in 2006, employee of a local travel agency.</p><p>When the COVID-19 pandemic first broke out in Japan in 2020, my colleagues and I had the same thought: if we controlled it, it would be fine during the May Day Golden Week holiday. However, by May Day, the epidemic was still spreading, so we could only look forward to the National Day holiday, but the National Day holiday still didn't work, and we could only look forward to New Year's Day, but the National Day holiday still didn't work. My current state of mind is that I hope to recover somewhat this year.</p><p>However, after the whole year of last year, everyone knows that there is nothing that can be done about the epidemic in the short term. It will take some time for everyone to get vaccinated when the vaccine is available. This year, things may not be so optimistic.</p><p>Later, Japan issued several notices banning all foreign imports and all foreigners from entering Japan. But for us, such notices no longer made much sense, because no matter how anxious we were, no one would come, and we couldn't conduct business.</p><p>The biggest impact on everyone was probably in March, April, and May last year. After that, everyone got used to it. No matter how many bans or openings there were, everyone understood that as long as the epidemic did not end, no matter how much they opened, it would be temporary. They might open for a week and then be stopped again.</p><p>Since February 2020, there have been virtually no foreign tourists. However, Japan has a policy that allocates some budget to subsidize tourism products in order to support its tourism industry and hotels. It has been implemented intermittently since last year, and it is stopped whenever the epidemic becomes serious.</p><p>This is the state of domestic travel, and basically no one is looking forward to overseas travel. Although there are no government penalties for taking overseas tours now, travel agencies will not take the risk of doing so. First, no one will come, and the operating costs and revenue are not proportional; Secondly, if someone in this group gets infected, the company will be unable to conduct future business, which would have a significant negative impact.</p><p>Currently, it seems that Japan has few pristine places left to offer tourists, especially Hokkaido, where the pandemic is very severe. Because Hokkaido entered the ice and snow season at the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020, many foreign visitors passed by and then brought the virus to Hokkaido. Therefore, when the epidemic first broke out in Japan, Hokkaido was the most severely affected. In addition, other major cities such as Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya have hundreds or even thousands of confirmed cases a day.</p><p>Of course, the situation is slightly better in some places, such as Yamagata Prefecture and Akita Prefecture, which are not very economically developed and have low population mobility. The number of infections is relatively small, and the daily increase is in the single digits. However, these individual counties will not open international routes separately to receive guests. If they do open up, it will definitely be a stable state for the whole country. Either they will open them all, or they will not open them at all. That's the only way.</p><p>For more than a year, we have had almost no jobs. We are in the tourism business, and there are no customers coming. No matter how we try to save ourselves, it is useless. For now, we can only make some videos or do some overseas promotion through live streaming, so as to build some popularity for the future recovery of the tourism industry. Anyway, the Japanese are never idle; they find something to do whenever they have free time.</p><p>Because I work for a company, I have a salary to guarantee my salary. However, many of my friends who run their own tourism businesses, such as charter drivers, face a lot of pressure and end up doing some personal shopping to make a living.</p><p>Speaking of personal shoppers, I would also like to say something. Many people say that Chinese tourists bought masks in Japan in large numbers in January, but I really didn't notice that. To be honest, Japanese masks are quite expensive. The normal price of masks in Japan is fifty or sixty yuan a pack, which is not cheap compared to when masks were in short supply in China. Therefore, there may be a few individuals who come to Japan to buy masks, but this is not a common phenomenon.</p><p>My income has definitely decreased. I don't have as much business anymore, so I don't have overtime pay or subsidies, so my overall income has decreased somewhat. Because consumption in Japan is relatively high, there are mortgage payments, and families have many expenses, so the past year has indeed been a bit tight.</p>","source":"txcj","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>I worked as a tour guide overseas: I had to return home after losing millions</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 12.5px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nI worked as a tour guide overseas: I had to return home after losing millions\n</h2>\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n<p class=\"head\">\n<strong class=\"h-name small\">腾讯财经</strong><span class=\"h-time small\">2021-01-23 08:53</span>\n</p>\n</h4>\n</header>\n<article>\n<p>Some of my fleet vehicles are in poor condition, and I've sold about half of them so far. Of course, used cars aren't so easy to sell during the pandemic, and the discounts are higher than usual, around 60-70% off. A year passed like this, and I still couldn't take it anymore. I had no income that year, which meant I lost millions of RMB. In addition, the long break inevitably made me panic, so in the end I chose to return to China. The pandemic broke out like dominoes around the world, and even in 2021, the overseas pandemic showed no signs of abating, which severely damaged the global tourism industry.</p><p>Data released by the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) shows that the number of international tourists decreased by approximately 1.1 billion in 2020, a drop of between 70% and 75%. The loss of international tourism revenue amounted to $1.1 trillion, resulting in a global economic loss of $2 trillion.</p><p>When the nest is overturned, how can there be an intact egg? The outbreak of the global pandemic has also presented tour guides who previously worked in \"overseas travel\" with the most difficult year of their careers. For many overseas tour guides, this year may be \"zero customers, zero income\" or even unemployed. So how did these overseas tour guides get through this year? What difficult or interesting stories have happened to them?</p><p>After focusing on overseas home purchases and overseas real estate agencies in the previous two episodes, \"Personal Experience\" shifts its focus to overseas tour guides. This episode focuses on four tour guides who have long been engaged in overseas travel to France, the UK, and Japan. During the pandemic, some of them lost millions and had to travel back to China, while others used this free time to study short videos and maintain a normal income through e-commerce and promotion... The following is the \"pandemic story\" of these four tour guides:</p><p><b>1</b></p><p><b>In 2020, he was unemployed and lost nearly a million yuan at home. He sold half of his fleet before returning to China.</b></p><p>Narrator: Mr. Wang</p><p>Profile: Engaged in the tourism industry in Scotland, UK in 2005, receiving domestic tour groups.</p><p>I started working in the overseas tourism industry in 2005, mainly in Scotland, UK, and have been doing it for 15 years now.</p><p>I started as a single tour guide, and as I gained experience, I formed my own small company with a fleet of vehicles that would hire drivers and tour guides to serve domestic tour groups.</p><p>Before the pandemic, I would host about a hundred domestic tour groups a year, including companies, schools, MBA colleges, summer camps, business trips, exhibitions, and other tour groups of all sizes. They are basically busy from April to December, with a small peak around Christmas. They stay busy for about nine months, and the remaining months are the off-season for the whole family to rest.</p><p>Before the pandemic, our income wasn't particularly high, but we definitely had no problem supporting our team and family. Our annual income was around £100,000. At the same time, because we could take a holiday every year during the off-season, whether we were resting in the UK or returning home, we were living a relatively good life.</p><p>Unexpectedly, the entire year of 2020 will be shrouded in the shadow of the epidemic. First, there was an outbreak in Wuhan, China, and then recently there was a large-scale outbreak in the UK. It is conceivable that Chinese people will certainly not take such risks to travel overseas again, let alone to the UK. As a result, our tourism work has been completely suspended, and a large number of tour guides and convoy operators engaged in domestic tours to the UK are also unemployed.</p><p>Fortunately, the UK also provides subsidies to us and the tourism industry. This subsidy is 80% of your monthly salary in the month you previously filed your taxes, which guarantees that you will have a basic living income every month. For example, if you earn £5,000 a month, and you file your taxes normally, the government will only give you £4,000 in subsidies this month. Of course, the amount of subsidies may vary depending on the company's and individual's circumstances.</p><p>So when the pandemic hit, because I still had savings and government subsidies, my life wasn't really affected. It was like taking a year's vacation in the UK, tidying up the garden, playing golf, and so on.</p><p>The reality is that not everyone files their taxes normally. The tax rate in the UK is between 20-30%. For example, some tour guides wanted to keep more money in their hands before the pandemic, so they would report less tax or not at all.</p><p>However, the subsidy rule is that the more taxes you filed before, the more subsidies you can receive this time. If you didn't file taxes before, you wouldn't receive the subsidies and would have to rely on yourself.</p><p>Without subsidies and savings, even if there is a risk of infection, people have to find other jobs to do, such as working in Chinese restaurants, takeout shops, or delivering goods. Others will do jobs such as picking up international students at the airport, returning them to China, and moving them.</p><p>A friend of mine is like this. He was helping international students move and pick them up from the airport to return to China. Finally, in the car he was taking them back to China, one of the international students was diagnosed. He was terrified. Fortunately, he was okay in the end, but it also reflects the helplessness of his survival situation.</p><p>In addition, because I own a travel agency, unlike individuals, in addition to subsidies, the government will also provide me with an interest-free loan based on my turnover. If I need it, I will use this interest-free loan.</p><p>Of course, in order to reduce expenses, I am still doing things to ensure cash flow. For example, I have sold almost all of my fleet of cars that are not in good condition and need to be updated in the future. I have sold about half of my fleet so far. Of course, used cars are not so easy to sell during the pandemic, and the discounts are higher than usual, about 60-70%.</p><p>Regarding employees, since we don't have a long-term employment relationship with the tour guides, most of them are settled on a daily basis, meaning you get paid for each day you work. The team they work for isn't necessarily fixed, so I'm fine. I don't have to pay employees a fixed basic salary every month, which helps me somewhat.</p><p>However, a year passed, and I still couldn't take it anymore. I had no income that year, which meant I lost millions of RMB. In addition, the long break inevitably made me panic, so in the end I chose to return to China.</p><p>I first arrived in Beijing in mid-January 2021. I first flew to Shanghai and quarantined there for 21 days. I am currently under observation in accordance with Beijing's epidemic prevention requirements until the relevant personnel notify me that I can go out.</p><p>large reason for returning to China was my assessment of the UK pandemic. I think it will take at least 4-5 years for the UK tourism industry to recover to pre-pandemic levels. If I rely solely on the UK tourism industry, I will be unemployed in the next few years. Moreover, with Brexit, the actual impact on the local economy will be quite significant, and I cannot sit and wait forever.</p><p>I'm from Beijing, and my house and relatives are all in Beijing, so I've decided to go back to China and think carefully about what I want to do in the next few years.</p><p>However, returning to China for a career transition will be more difficult. Domestic travel agencies have also been impacted by the pandemic, and compared to domestic tour guides, I may not have more advantages. When I go to work for a company, I'm in my forties. I wouldn't be willing to pay 10,000 or 8,000 yuan, but I would be willing to pay 50,000 yuan. But why would a company want me? They could easily find a young elite, so I still need to find a suitable direction for myself.</p><p>It seems more realistic now that I might do some golf projects with friends. I've also visited many golf clubs and studied golf operations before. During this period, I also met many people in the domestic golf industry, so I plan to go to Shenzhen or Yunnan to operate a youth golf course or training ground. However, this is still a preliminary idea and has not yet reached the stage of putting it into practice.</p><p>As for the UK tourism industry, if the global pandemic improves, I will still return to this industry. After all, I have been in this industry for so many years and I love it very much. In order to better attract the clients I lead tours with, I have learned a lot about golf and wine, and I have also studied it in depth. I don't want to give up just like that. I also really hope that the pandemic will pass and overseas travel will rebound. But at least for now, this idea is a bit too optimistic.</p><p><b>2</b></p><p><b>When I have nothing to do, I focus on researching short videos; the pandemic has boosted the food delivery industry in the UK.</b></p><p>Narrator: Brother Bao from the UK</p><p>Profile: He has lived in the UK for nearly 20 years and mainly leads tour groups of Chinese people.</p><p>When the pandemic first broke out in 2020, the situation in the UK, Spain, and Italy was quite serious. I thought the pandemic would affect the European tourism industry, but I didn't expect it to last so long. I thought there shouldn't be any problems in 2021, but now I feel that this year will be tough too.</p><p>After the outbreak of the pandemic, many Chinese tourists stopped coming. The groups I handle are more upscale, privately tailored, as well as some large MBA study tours and business tours. There were still some family group tours in January and February 2020, but most people started canceling their bookings for March to May, and by the time the UK lockdown began in March, there were no more tourists.</p><p>Later, during the May Day holiday and summer vacation, the domestic epidemic eased somewhat, and some people came to inquire, but no groups were formed. All the tour groups, plus the summer camps, didn't come. We have many Chinese tour guides in the UK, perhaps three or four hundred of them full-time. Most of them have changed careers or returned to their home countries, so this incident has had a huge impact on the tour guide groups.</p><p>In addition, domestic tourism in the UK is also quite sluggish. The British are quite obedient to the government. If the government says the city is under lockdown and they are not allowed to move around freely, they will really stay at home and not wander around. Therefore, many tourist attractions in the UK have closed at all. Some major attractions, such as the British Museum, require online reservations in advance to limit the number of people and visitors. They also set up single-route tours to ensure the safety of visitors.</p><p>I went to Scotland in November 2020. It wasn't really a tourist trip, but I went there to run some errands and stayed in a hotel for a while. After staying for four days, I could feel the exploitation of the entire tourism industry, including the particularly luxurious hotels in the city center, which were very cheap. You could see that the exploitation was indeed terrible.</p><p>So from the tour guide's perspective, there was basically no business in the past year, and they could only do other things. I started making short videos in 2019, mainly to promote my travel business. Later, I did receive some customers from the platform, and my followers reached more than 300,000.</p><p>After the outbreak of the pandemic, I started to study this topic seriously, slightly changed the video style, and introduced the local customs and culture of the UK. Taking this opportunity, I built my account, which now has more than 2 million followers. So, I've essentially become a We Media resident now.</p><p>I monetize my videos through both e-commerce and advertising. In 2020, I took on some promotional advertisements, and the income was decent, on par with my previous income as a tour guide.</p><p>The government will also provide some subsidies. But for us, it's not really that much. In other industries, subsidies are basically 80%, such as hotels. However, for tour guides, salaries are not easy to measure because they are paid when there are tours, and not when there are no tours. The subsidies are not that much, and you can only apply for a small fixed amount.</p><p>There aren't many people around me who do personal shopping. I just have a few brands or merchants here who have mini-programs. I help them promote the mini-programs, and you can buy things on them. Actually, it's quite difficult to buy through personal shoppers these days. The UK pandemic is quite severe, and domestic consumers are quite worried about logistics. Many people in China are reluctant to buy things shipped directly back from the UK for fear of carrying the virus. So some of my personal shopper friends are also complaining.</p><p>The catering industry in the UK is also not ideal, because catering and tourism are also linked. Large luxury restaurants have been hit harder, but the government will provide them with some compensation and support. Some have survived, while others have gone bankrupt. However, food delivery is booming. The pandemic has changed the consumption habits of British people and local Chinese people. They are more willing to order online, and food delivery apps have also become quite popular.</p><p><b>3</b></p><p><b>Domestic tourism in France is particularly popular, with some rural guesthouses experiencing an occupancy rate of 120%.</b></p><p>Narrator: Mr. Y</p><p>Profile: Residing in France for decades, freelancing, such as contributing to domestic media and organizing business delegations.</p><p>For the past year, I have had almost no contact with any overseas tourists. There are two types of Chinese people who return to France. The first type is Chinese people who live in France long-term and return to France after visiting relatives or running errands in China. The second type is international students. If there are no other Chinese people, how could anyone still come to France for tourism in these extraordinary times?</p><p>There are fewer Chinese people, but domestic tourism in France is excellent. After the pandemic hit, international tourism suffered a loss of about 70% to 80%, but domestic tourism only suffered a loss of about 20%. Therefore, the revenue of the entire French tourism industry did not decline significantly, mainly because domestic tourism had a positive impact.</p><p>In 2020, most French people chose to vacation domestically. The characteristic of this vacation is the development of green tourism, going to less crowded places, including many Parisians who go to their second homes in the countryside or rent a house in the countryside and \"isolate\" there. This has led to the development of tourism in many remote parts of France. In addition, beach tourism was also quite popular last year, especially in summer, when tourism in the Mediterranean region was booming, with the French Riviera reaching 70% to 80% of its usual capacity.</p><p>There are also some scenic spots in big cities, such as the Louvre and the Palace of Versailles, which have been significantly affected. These attractions were closed during the French lockdown and will only open to the public after the lockdown is lifted. However, even if it is open, there are still people restrictions. You have to make an appointment online and calculate how many people can get in. These places are mainly visited by international tourists, so their overall revenue has dropped significantly, with the Louvre and Versailles receiving more than 50% of their revenue.</p><p>I saw international tourists in Paris, but they mainly came from neighboring countries: Belgians, Dutch, British, Germans, and Spaniards. These people came to France for tourism. Because Europeans still treated pneumonia like influenza, there was a period of time when the borders were not closed or checked at all. They came by car or train, and I even had the idea of driving to Italy for a trip. In June and July, Europeans feel that there's nothing to be afraid of, because you just need to wear a mask and be careful when you go to the hotel. That's what everyone thinks.</p><p>The Chinese tour guide industry in France is in decline, but there is a very important reason why people still feel they can survive: France provides very high levels of aid.</p><p>If you work in a travel agency and are employed by a company as a tour guide, the travel agency pays you a salary. During the pandemic, you will receive 83% of your salary, which is stipulated by the government, so you will not be significantly affected. If you are a freelancer working as a tour guide, the government will ease your loan burden and provide you with a subsidy of at least 1,500 euros per month.</p><p>Therefore, although tour guide business was sluggish in 2020 and income was not comparable to before, maintaining a normal standard of living was still not a problem. Medical resources were also quite developed, and testing was free whether you were sick or not, which was quite good.</p><p>I heard that some tour guides started doing overseas personal shopping this year, but the current situation is not something you can just do whenever you want. There are several important factors for overseas personal shoppers. First, you need to have your own customer base. Second, customs restrictions on personal shoppers are becoming increasingly strict. Third, many stores have closed during the lockdown period, making it quite difficult for you to do personal shoppers.</p><p>But if you run a bed and breakfast in the countryside, it will be quite good. France has a unique characteristic: in rural areas, farmers have the right to rent out their houses to tourists, and the government collects very low taxes to encourage rural tourism. Rural hotels have been very popular over the past year, with many popular tourist destinations fully booked during the summer, reaching an occupancy rate of around 120%.</p><p>However, Airbnb is relatively weak in rural areas. They mainly operate guesthouses in big cities, such as Paris, where there are very few tourists. As a result, the tourism industry in Paris is in a state of collapse this year, and Airbnb in major French cities has also been severely impacted.</p><p>The restaurant industry will be hit harder because the government allows it to operate for very few hours. Of course, the government subsidies are also very substantial. If high-end restaurants don't open, they can receive most of the government's loan assistance, and employees who don't work can also receive most of their wages. This is called technical unemployment benefits, which are borne by the government.</p><p>In addition, there were indeed quite a few mid-to-low-end restaurants offering takeout last year. Many restaurants in Paris that allow online ordering have appeared. Some restaurants, unable to open normally, have transformed into online takeout services. This is indeed the case.</p><p><b>4</b></p><p><b>We've been out of work for a year now, and we haven't seen any Chinese people fighting for masks in Japan.</b></p><p>Narrator: Mr. D</p><p>Profile: Arrived in Japan in 2006, employee of a local travel agency.</p><p>When the COVID-19 pandemic first broke out in Japan in 2020, my colleagues and I had the same thought: if we controlled it, it would be fine during the May Day Golden Week holiday. However, by May Day, the epidemic was still spreading, so we could only look forward to the National Day holiday, but the National Day holiday still didn't work, and we could only look forward to New Year's Day, but the National Day holiday still didn't work. My current state of mind is that I hope to recover somewhat this year.</p><p>However, after the whole year of last year, everyone knows that there is nothing that can be done about the epidemic in the short term. It will take some time for everyone to get vaccinated when the vaccine is available. This year, things may not be so optimistic.</p><p>Later, Japan issued several notices banning all foreign imports and all foreigners from entering Japan. But for us, such notices no longer made much sense, because no matter how anxious we were, no one would come, and we couldn't conduct business.</p><p>The biggest impact on everyone was probably in March, April, and May last year. After that, everyone got used to it. No matter how many bans or openings there were, everyone understood that as long as the epidemic did not end, no matter how much they opened, it would be temporary. They might open for a week and then be stopped again.</p><p>Since February 2020, there have been virtually no foreign tourists. However, Japan has a policy that allocates some budget to subsidize tourism products in order to support its tourism industry and hotels. It has been implemented intermittently since last year, and it is stopped whenever the epidemic becomes serious.</p><p>This is the state of domestic travel, and basically no one is looking forward to overseas travel. Although there are no government penalties for taking overseas tours now, travel agencies will not take the risk of doing so. First, no one will come, and the operating costs and revenue are not proportional; Secondly, if someone in this group gets infected, the company will be unable to conduct future business, which would have a significant negative impact.</p><p>Currently, it seems that Japan has few pristine places left to offer tourists, especially Hokkaido, where the pandemic is very severe. Because Hokkaido entered the ice and snow season at the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020, many foreign visitors passed by and then brought the virus to Hokkaido. Therefore, when the epidemic first broke out in Japan, Hokkaido was the most severely affected. In addition, other major cities such as Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya have hundreds or even thousands of confirmed cases a day.</p><p>Of course, the situation is slightly better in some places, such as Yamagata Prefecture and Akita Prefecture, which are not very economically developed and have low population mobility. The number of infections is relatively small, and the daily increase is in the single digits. However, these individual counties will not open international routes separately to receive guests. If they do open up, it will definitely be a stable state for the whole country. Either they will open them all, or they will not open them at all. That's the only way.</p><p>For more than a year, we have had almost no jobs. We are in the tourism business, and there are no customers coming. No matter how we try to save ourselves, it is useless. For now, we can only make some videos or do some overseas promotion through live streaming, so as to build some popularity for the future recovery of the tourism industry. Anyway, the Japanese are never idle; they find something to do whenever they have free time.</p><p>Because I work for a company, I have a salary to guarantee my salary. However, many of my friends who run their own tourism businesses, such as charter drivers, face a lot of pressure and end up doing some personal shopping to make a living.</p><p>Speaking of personal shoppers, I would also like to say something. Many people say that Chinese tourists bought masks in Japan in large numbers in January, but I really didn't notice that. To be honest, Japanese masks are quite expensive. The normal price of masks in Japan is fifty or sixty yuan a pack, which is not cheap compared to when masks were in short supply in China. Therefore, there may be a few individuals who come to Japan to buy masks, but this is not a common phenomenon.</p><p>My income has definitely decreased. I don't have as much business anymore, so I don't have overtime pay or subsidies, so my overall income has decreased somewhat. Because consumption in Japan is relatively high, there are mortgage payments, and families have many expenses, so the past year has indeed been a bit tight.</p>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n<p> source：<a 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玩的。6月份、7月份的时候，欧洲人的感觉就是没有什么好怕的，因为你戴着口罩，到酒店注意一点就好了，大家都是这么认为的。\n在法国的华人导游业处于一片凋零，但是为什么大家还觉得能够过下去，有一个很重要的原因，法国的援助力度是非常高的。\n如果你是在旅行社工作，受雇于企业当导游，旅行社给你工资。疫情期间，你会得到83%的工资，这是政府规定的，所以你没受大的影响。如果你是自由职业者，个人做导游业务的，国家给你减轻贷款压力，此外每个月起码给你1500欧元的补助。\n所以，尽管2020年导游生意冷淡，收入不能跟以前比，但是维持正常的生活水准还是没问题的，医疗资源也挺发达，你是生了病还是没有生病，做检测都不要钱的，这点还是相当不错的。\n我听说有导游今年开始做海外代购，但是现在这个情况也不是你想做就能做。海外代购有几个重要因素，第一你要先有自己的客户群，第二海关对于代购的限制越来越严了，第三在禁足期间，很多商店都关门了，你要做代购也是相当困难。\n但如果你是在乡村开民宿的，就会相当不错。法国有一个特点，在乡村地区，农民有权利出租自己的房子给游客住，政府收税很低，就是为了鼓励乡村旅游的。过去一年农村酒店非常火，很多热门旅游地带在夏天期间全部订满，达到 120%左右的入住率。\n但像爱彼迎在乡村地区比较弱，他们主要是在大城市的民宿，比如巴黎，来旅游的人很少，所以今年巴黎的旅游业就处于一种比较崩溃的状态，包括爱彼迎在法国的大城市也受到了很大的打击。\n餐饮业受到的打击会比较大，因为政府允许它营业的时间很少。当然政府补助的力度也是非常大的。高档饭店不开门，就可以从国家拿大部分的贷款援助，不上班的员工也能拿到大部分工资，这个叫技术性失业工资，由政府承担。\n此外，中低档饭店做外卖的现象去年确实也挺多的，巴黎已经出现了很多可以网上订购的饭店，有些餐馆无法正常开门营业，就转型专门做网上订购外卖的业务，这个确实是有的。\n4\n我们已经一年没有活干了，没看到中国人在日本抢口罩\n口述人：D先生\n人物档案：2006年到日本，当地某旅行社员工\n2020年疫情在日本刚刚爆发的时候，我和同事的想法都一样，觉得控制一下，到了五一黄金周就好了。但是等到了五一，疫情还在蔓延，只能又盼十一，结果十一还是不行，又只能盼元旦，结果元旦还是不行，现在的内心状态就是盼着今年能恢复一些。\n但是经历了去年一整年，大家也知道疫情这个事情，短期没有办法，疫苗出来大家都接种要看一段时间，今年搞不好没那么乐观了。\n后来日本发布过几次通知，禁止一切境外输入，禁止所有外国人进入日本，但对于我们来说，这样的通知，已经没啥感觉了，因为再着急，也没人来，没办法开展业务。\n对大家比较大的影响应该是在去年三四五月份，后续大家都很习惯了，再有什么禁止也好，开放也好，大家心里都明白，只要疫情不结束，再怎么开放，也都是短暂的，说不定开放一个礼拜，又被叫停了。\n从2020年二月份至今，国外游客基本就没有了，但日本有一个政策，为了扶持本国的旅游业、酒店，拨出来一些预算给旅游产品做补贴。从去年开始断断续续的执行，只要疫情一严重，就把它停了。\n国内游都是这个状态，海外游基本没人期待，虽然现在带国外团，政府没有什么处罚措施，但是旅行社也不会去冒险做这个事情。第一是不会有人来，营业的成本和收入不成正比；第二，万一要是这个团有人感染，公司以后的业务就没有办法做了，这个负面影响还是很大的。\n目前看日本已经没有什么净土可以提供给游客了，尤其是北海道，疫情非常严重。因为2019年年底和2020年年初，北海道进入到冰雪季，很多国外客人的都过去了，然后就把病毒带到北海道。所以疫情刚在日本爆发的时候，北海道是最严重的。此外，其他像东京、大阪、名古屋这些大城市，一天的确诊病例都是成百上千人。\n当然，也有一些地方的情况稍微好一点，像山行县、秋田县这些经济不是很发达、人口流动不是很大的地方，相对来说感染人数比较少，每天的增长是个位数。但是这些个别的县也不会单独开通国际航线来接待客人，如果真是开放了，它一定是全国整体的稳定状态，要不然就全开，要不然就不开，只能是这样。\n这一年多，我们几乎没有什么工作，做旅游生意的，没有客人来，怎么自救也没用。我们现在只能做一些视频，或者通过网络直播，针对海外做一些宣传，为之后旅游业恢复，积累点人气。反正日本人不会闲着，没事就找事干。\n因为我是在公司上班，是有工资做保障的，但是很多朋友，自己在做旅游生意的，比如包车司机，他们的压力会比较大，会搞一些代购，维持生计。\n提到代购也说一点，很多人都说1月份有中国游客在日本大肆购买口罩，但这个我确实没注意到。说实话日本口罩比较贵。日本口罩正常价格是五六十块钱一包，跟国内口罩最紧缺的时候相比，卖的也都不便宜。所以可能会有个别人来日本买口罩，但不是普遍现象。\n我这边的收入肯定也是减少了，没有那么多业务了，也就没有加班费和补助费了，所以整体收入是有一些减少。因为日本的消费比较高，要供房，家庭需要开销的地方比较多，所以过去一年日子确实过得有点紧巴巴。","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{}},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":3318,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0}],"hots":[{"id":366597413,"gmtCreate":1614505004832,"gmtModify":1704772147016,"author":{"id":"3570289928640104","authorId":"3570289928640104","name":"原来的样子","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/54084e3c327465ae0ccf753edf41aa7d","crmLevel":7,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3570289928640104","authorIdStr":"3570289928640104"},"themes":[],"title":"","htmlText":"6666","listText":"6666","text":"6666","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/366597413","repostId":"1121615825","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1121615825","kind":"news","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"为用户提供金融资讯、行情、数据，旨在帮助投资者理解世界，做投资决策。","home_visible":1,"media_name":"老虎资讯综合","id":"102","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba"},"pubTimestamp":1614430939,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1121615825?lang=en_US&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-02-27 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America</a>(Market capitalization: $6.9 billion)<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/002594\">BYD</a>(Market capitalization: US$5.897 billion)<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/CVX\">Chevron</a>(market capitalization of $4.096 billion), Charter Communications (market capitalization of $3.45 billion).</p><p><b>Buffett's statement</b></p><p>Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett said: Never be \"bearish\" on the United States.</p><p>Buffett stated that the company repurchased more shares in 2021 and is likely to further reduce its number of shares in the future. The future outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic or other epidemics may have an adverse impact on operations.</p><p><b>Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting this year will be held in Los Angeles on May 1, instead of Omaha.</b>Vice Chairman Charlie Munger will join shareholders on stage to answer questions, while Vice Chairmen Greg Abel and Ajit Jain will also have time to answer questions.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Warren Buffett earned $42.5 billion in 2020 and said, \"Never be bearish on the United States.\"</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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The future outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic or other epidemics may have an adverse impact on operations.</p><p><b>Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting this year will be held in Los Angeles on May 1, instead of Omaha.</b>Vice Chairman Charlie Munger will join shareholders on stage to answer questions, while Vice Chairmen Greg Abel and Ajit Jain will also have time to answer questions.</p>\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c4c5593a8353a5ed6be8d5bb8e6cb2ff","relate_stocks":{"BRK.B":"伯克希尔B","BRK.A":"伯克希尔"},"is_english":false,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1121615825","content_text":"2月27日，巴菲特的伯克希尔哈撒韦公司公布了2020年四季度及全年财报，主要业绩为：2020年第四季度净利润（亿美元）：358.4，预期：53.1，前值：291.59。第四季度投资净收益304.5亿美元，去年同期为245.3亿美元。第四季度约有90亿美元用于购买股票，使今年购买股票总额达250亿美元。2020年全年净利润（亿美元）：425.21，预期：119.96，前值：814.17。2020年底的现金储备为1383亿美元。持股情况截至2020年12月31日，伯克希尔持有1204亿美元的苹果公司股票，此前截至9月30日持有1117亿美元苹果公司股票。伯克希尔公布的去年四季度末前十大持仓分别为：苹果（市值1204亿美元）、美国银行（市值313亿美元）、可口可乐（市值219亿美元）、美国运通（市值183亿美元）、Verizon通信（市值86亿美元）、穆迪（市值71.6亿美元）、美国合众银行（市值69亿美元）、比亚迪（市值58.97亿美元）、雪佛龙（市值40.96亿美元）、Charter通信（市值34.5亿美元）。巴菲特表态伯克希尔·哈撒韦公司CEO沃伦·巴菲特表示：永远不要“看空”美国。巴菲特称，公司在2021年回购了更多股份，未来很可能进一步减少其股份数量。未来新冠疫情或其他流行病的暴发可能对运营产生不利影响。伯克希尔哈撒韦今年的年会将于5月1日在洛杉矶举行，而不是在奥马哈。届时，副董事长查理·芒格将一同上台回答股东提问，副董事长格雷格·阿贝尔和阿吉特·贾因也将有时间回答问题。","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"BRK.A":0.9,"BRK.B":0.9}},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":3652,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":366597562,"gmtCreate":1614504987956,"gmtModify":1704772147177,"author":{"id":"3570289928640104","authorId":"3570289928640104","name":"原来的样子","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/54084e3c327465ae0ccf753edf41aa7d","crmLevel":7,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3570289928640104","authorIdStr":"3570289928640104"},"themes":[],"title":"","htmlText":"6666","listText":"6666","text":"6666","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/366597562","repostId":"1151429784","repostType":4,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":4195,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":319024269,"gmtCreate":1611446134251,"gmtModify":1704860277136,"author":{"id":"3570289928640104","authorId":"3570289928640104","name":"原来的样子","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/54084e3c327465ae0ccf753edf41aa7d","crmLevel":7,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3570289928640104","authorIdStr":"3570289928640104"},"themes":[],"title":"","htmlText":"☹️☹️☹️","listText":"☹️☹️☹️","text":"☹️☹️☹️","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/319024269","repostId":"1127071532","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1127071532","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1611363231,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1127071532?lang=en_US&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-01-23 08:53","market":"us","language":"zh","title":"I worked as a tour guide overseas: I had to return home after losing millions","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1127071532","media":"腾讯财经","summary":"我的车队，有一些车况不那么好的，目前大概卖掉了我车队的一半，当然疫情期间二手车也没有那么好出售，折价也高出平常，大概在6-7折左右。就这么过了一年，我还是熬不住了，这一年没有收入，等于损失了上百万人民","content":"<p>Some of my fleet vehicles are in poor condition, and I've sold about half of them so far. Of course, used cars aren't so easy to sell during the pandemic, and the discounts are higher than usual, around 60-70% off. A year passed like this, and I still couldn't take it anymore. I had no income that year, which meant I lost millions of RMB. In addition, the long break inevitably made me panic, so in the end I chose to return to China. The pandemic broke out like dominoes around the world, and even in 2021, the overseas pandemic showed no signs of abating, which severely damaged the global tourism industry.</p><p>Data released by the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) shows that the number of international tourists decreased by approximately 1.1 billion in 2020, a drop of between 70% and 75%. The loss of international tourism revenue amounted to $1.1 trillion, resulting in a global economic loss of $2 trillion.</p><p>When the nest is overturned, how can there be an intact egg? The outbreak of the global pandemic has also presented tour guides who previously worked in \"overseas travel\" with the most difficult year of their careers. For many overseas tour guides, this year may be \"zero customers, zero income\" or even unemployed. So how did these overseas tour guides get through this year? What difficult or interesting stories have happened to them?</p><p>After focusing on overseas home purchases and overseas real estate agencies in the previous two episodes, \"Personal Experience\" shifts its focus to overseas tour guides. This episode focuses on four tour guides who have long been engaged in overseas travel to France, the UK, and Japan. During the pandemic, some of them lost millions and had to travel back to China, while others used this free time to study short videos and maintain a normal income through e-commerce and promotion... The following is the \"pandemic story\" of these four tour guides:</p><p><b>1</b></p><p><b>In 2020, he was unemployed and lost nearly a million yuan at home. He sold half of his fleet before returning to China.</b></p><p>Narrator: Mr. Wang</p><p>Profile: Engaged in the tourism industry in Scotland, UK in 2005, receiving domestic tour groups.</p><p>I started working in the overseas tourism industry in 2005, mainly in Scotland, UK, and have been doing it for 15 years now.</p><p>I started as a single tour guide, and as I gained experience, I formed my own small company with a fleet of vehicles that would hire drivers and tour guides to serve domestic tour groups.</p><p>Before the pandemic, I would host about a hundred domestic tour groups a year, including companies, schools, MBA colleges, summer camps, business trips, exhibitions, and other tour groups of all sizes. They are basically busy from April to December, with a small peak around Christmas. They stay busy for about nine months, and the remaining months are the off-season for the whole family to rest.</p><p>Before the pandemic, our income wasn't particularly high, but we definitely had no problem supporting our team and family. Our annual income was around £100,000. At the same time, because we could take a holiday every year during the off-season, whether we were resting in the UK or returning home, we were living a relatively good life.</p><p>Unexpectedly, the entire year of 2020 will be shrouded in the shadow of the epidemic. First, there was an outbreak in Wuhan, China, and then recently there was a large-scale outbreak in the UK. It is conceivable that Chinese people will certainly not take such risks to travel overseas again, let alone to the UK. As a result, our tourism work has been completely suspended, and a large number of tour guides and convoy operators engaged in domestic tours to the UK are also unemployed.</p><p>Fortunately, the UK also provides subsidies to us and the tourism industry. This subsidy is 80% of your monthly salary in the month you previously filed your taxes, which guarantees that you will have a basic living income every month. For example, if you earn £5,000 a month, and you file your taxes normally, the government will only give you £4,000 in subsidies this month. Of course, the amount of subsidies may vary depending on the company's and individual's circumstances.</p><p>So when the pandemic hit, because I still had savings and government subsidies, my life wasn't really affected. It was like taking a year's vacation in the UK, tidying up the garden, playing golf, and so on.</p><p>The reality is that not everyone files their taxes normally. The tax rate in the UK is between 20-30%. For example, some tour guides wanted to keep more money in their hands before the pandemic, so they would report less tax or not at all.</p><p>However, the subsidy rule is that the more taxes you filed before, the more subsidies you can receive this time. If you didn't file taxes before, you wouldn't receive the subsidies and would have to rely on yourself.</p><p>Without subsidies and savings, even if there is a risk of infection, people have to find other jobs to do, such as working in Chinese restaurants, takeout shops, or delivering goods. Others will do jobs such as picking up international students at the airport, returning them to China, and moving them.</p><p>A friend of mine is like this. He was helping international students move and pick them up from the airport to return to China. Finally, in the car he was taking them back to China, one of the international students was diagnosed. He was terrified. Fortunately, he was okay in the end, but it also reflects the helplessness of his survival situation.</p><p>In addition, because I own a travel agency, unlike individuals, in addition to subsidies, the government will also provide me with an interest-free loan based on my turnover. If I need it, I will use this interest-free loan.</p><p>Of course, in order to reduce expenses, I am still doing things to ensure cash flow. For example, I have sold almost all of my fleet of cars that are not in good condition and need to be updated in the future. I have sold about half of my fleet so far. Of course, used cars are not so easy to sell during the pandemic, and the discounts are higher than usual, about 60-70%.</p><p>Regarding employees, since we don't have a long-term employment relationship with the tour guides, most of them are settled on a daily basis, meaning you get paid for each day you work. The team they work for isn't necessarily fixed, so I'm fine. I don't have to pay employees a fixed basic salary every month, which helps me somewhat.</p><p>However, a year passed, and I still couldn't take it anymore. I had no income that year, which meant I lost millions of RMB. In addition, the long break inevitably made me panic, so in the end I chose to return to China.</p><p>I first arrived in Beijing in mid-January 2021. I first flew to Shanghai and quarantined there for 21 days. I am currently under observation in accordance with Beijing's epidemic prevention requirements until the relevant personnel notify me that I can go out.</p><p>large reason for returning to China was my assessment of the UK pandemic. I think it will take at least 4-5 years for the UK tourism industry to recover to pre-pandemic levels. If I rely solely on the UK tourism industry, I will be unemployed in the next few years. Moreover, with Brexit, the actual impact on the local economy will be quite significant, and I cannot sit and wait forever.</p><p>I'm from Beijing, and my house and relatives are all in Beijing, so I've decided to go back to China and think carefully about what I want to do in the next few years.</p><p>However, returning to China for a career transition will be more difficult. Domestic travel agencies have also been impacted by the pandemic, and compared to domestic tour guides, I may not have more advantages. When I go to work for a company, I'm in my forties. I wouldn't be willing to pay 10,000 or 8,000 yuan, but I would be willing to pay 50,000 yuan. But why would a company want me? They could easily find a young elite, so I still need to find a suitable direction for myself.</p><p>It seems more realistic now that I might do some golf projects with friends. I've also visited many golf clubs and studied golf operations before. During this period, I also met many people in the domestic golf industry, so I plan to go to Shenzhen or Yunnan to operate a youth golf course or training ground. However, this is still a preliminary idea and has not yet reached the stage of putting it into practice.</p><p>As for the UK tourism industry, if the global pandemic improves, I will still return to this industry. After all, I have been in this industry for so many years and I love it very much. In order to better attract the clients I lead tours with, I have learned a lot about golf and wine, and I have also studied it in depth. I don't want to give up just like that. I also really hope that the pandemic will pass and overseas travel will rebound. But at least for now, this idea is a bit too optimistic.</p><p><b>2</b></p><p><b>When I have nothing to do, I focus on researching short videos; the pandemic has boosted the food delivery industry in the UK.</b></p><p>Narrator: Brother Bao from the UK</p><p>Profile: He has lived in the UK for nearly 20 years and mainly leads tour groups of Chinese people.</p><p>When the pandemic first broke out in 2020, the situation in the UK, Spain, and Italy was quite serious. I thought the pandemic would affect the European tourism industry, but I didn't expect it to last so long. I thought there shouldn't be any problems in 2021, but now I feel that this year will be tough too.</p><p>After the outbreak of the pandemic, many Chinese tourists stopped coming. The groups I handle are more upscale, privately tailored, as well as some large MBA study tours and business tours. There were still some family group tours in January and February 2020, but most people started canceling their bookings for March to May, and by the time the UK lockdown began in March, there were no more tourists.</p><p>Later, during the May Day holiday and summer vacation, the domestic epidemic eased somewhat, and some people came to inquire, but no groups were formed. All the tour groups, plus the summer camps, didn't come. We have many Chinese tour guides in the UK, perhaps three or four hundred of them full-time. Most of them have changed careers or returned to their home countries, so this incident has had a huge impact on the tour guide groups.</p><p>In addition, domestic tourism in the UK is also quite sluggish. The British are quite obedient to the government. If the government says the city is under lockdown and they are not allowed to move around freely, they will really stay at home and not wander around. Therefore, many tourist attractions in the UK have closed at all. Some major attractions, such as the British Museum, require online reservations in advance to limit the number of people and visitors. They also set up single-route tours to ensure the safety of visitors.</p><p>I went to Scotland in November 2020. It wasn't really a tourist trip, but I went there to run some errands and stayed in a hotel for a while. After staying for four days, I could feel the exploitation of the entire tourism industry, including the particularly luxurious hotels in the city center, which were very cheap. You could see that the exploitation was indeed terrible.</p><p>So from the tour guide's perspective, there was basically no business in the past year, and they could only do other things. I started making short videos in 2019, mainly to promote my travel business. Later, I did receive some customers from the platform, and my followers reached more than 300,000.</p><p>After the outbreak of the pandemic, I started to study this topic seriously, slightly changed the video style, and introduced the local customs and culture of the UK. Taking this opportunity, I built my account, which now has more than 2 million followers. So, I've essentially become a We Media resident now.</p><p>I monetize my videos through both e-commerce and advertising. In 2020, I took on some promotional advertisements, and the income was decent, on par with my previous income as a tour guide.</p><p>The government will also provide some subsidies. But for us, it's not really that much. In other industries, subsidies are basically 80%, such as hotels. However, for tour guides, salaries are not easy to measure because they are paid when there are tours, and not when there are no tours. The subsidies are not that much, and you can only apply for a small fixed amount.</p><p>There aren't many people around me who do personal shopping. I just have a few brands or merchants here who have mini-programs. I help them promote the mini-programs, and you can buy things on them. Actually, it's quite difficult to buy through personal shoppers these days. The UK pandemic is quite severe, and domestic consumers are quite worried about logistics. Many people in China are reluctant to buy things shipped directly back from the UK for fear of carrying the virus. So some of my personal shopper friends are also complaining.</p><p>The catering industry in the UK is also not ideal, because catering and tourism are also linked. Large luxury restaurants have been hit harder, but the government will provide them with some compensation and support. Some have survived, while others have gone bankrupt. However, food delivery is booming. The pandemic has changed the consumption habits of British people and local Chinese people. They are more willing to order online, and food delivery apps have also become quite popular.</p><p><b>3</b></p><p><b>Domestic tourism in France is particularly popular, with some rural guesthouses experiencing an occupancy rate of 120%.</b></p><p>Narrator: Mr. Y</p><p>Profile: Residing in France for decades, freelancing, such as contributing to domestic media and organizing business delegations.</p><p>For the past year, I have had almost no contact with any overseas tourists. There are two types of Chinese people who return to France. The first type is Chinese people who live in France long-term and return to France after visiting relatives or running errands in China. The second type is international students. If there are no other Chinese people, how could anyone still come to France for tourism in these extraordinary times?</p><p>There are fewer Chinese people, but domestic tourism in France is excellent. After the pandemic hit, international tourism suffered a loss of about 70% to 80%, but domestic tourism only suffered a loss of about 20%. Therefore, the revenue of the entire French tourism industry did not decline significantly, mainly because domestic tourism had a positive impact.</p><p>In 2020, most French people chose to vacation domestically. The characteristic of this vacation is the development of green tourism, going to less crowded places, including many Parisians who go to their second homes in the countryside or rent a house in the countryside and \"isolate\" there. This has led to the development of tourism in many remote parts of France. In addition, beach tourism was also quite popular last year, especially in summer, when tourism in the Mediterranean region was booming, with the French Riviera reaching 70% to 80% of its usual capacity.</p><p>There are also some scenic spots in big cities, such as the Louvre and the Palace of Versailles, which have been significantly affected. These attractions were closed during the French lockdown and will only open to the public after the lockdown is lifted. However, even if it is open, there are still people restrictions. You have to make an appointment online and calculate how many people can get in. These places are mainly visited by international tourists, so their overall revenue has dropped significantly, with the Louvre and Versailles receiving more than 50% of their revenue.</p><p>I saw international tourists in Paris, but they mainly came from neighboring countries: Belgians, Dutch, British, Germans, and Spaniards. These people came to France for tourism. Because Europeans still treated pneumonia like influenza, there was a period of time when the borders were not closed or checked at all. They came by car or train, and I even had the idea of driving to Italy for a trip. In June and July, Europeans feel that there's nothing to be afraid of, because you just need to wear a mask and be careful when you go to the hotel. That's what everyone thinks.</p><p>The Chinese tour guide industry in France is in decline, but there is a very important reason why people still feel they can survive: France provides very high levels of aid.</p><p>If you work in a travel agency and are employed by a company as a tour guide, the travel agency pays you a salary. During the pandemic, you will receive 83% of your salary, which is stipulated by the government, so you will not be significantly affected. If you are a freelancer working as a tour guide, the government will ease your loan burden and provide you with a subsidy of at least 1,500 euros per month.</p><p>Therefore, although tour guide business was sluggish in 2020 and income was not comparable to before, maintaining a normal standard of living was still not a problem. Medical resources were also quite developed, and testing was free whether you were sick or not, which was quite good.</p><p>I heard that some tour guides started doing overseas personal shopping this year, but the current situation is not something you can just do whenever you want. There are several important factors for overseas personal shoppers. First, you need to have your own customer base. Second, customs restrictions on personal shoppers are becoming increasingly strict. Third, many stores have closed during the lockdown period, making it quite difficult for you to do personal shoppers.</p><p>But if you run a bed and breakfast in the countryside, it will be quite good. France has a unique characteristic: in rural areas, farmers have the right to rent out their houses to tourists, and the government collects very low taxes to encourage rural tourism. Rural hotels have been very popular over the past year, with many popular tourist destinations fully booked during the summer, reaching an occupancy rate of around 120%.</p><p>However, Airbnb is relatively weak in rural areas. They mainly operate guesthouses in big cities, such as Paris, where there are very few tourists. As a result, the tourism industry in Paris is in a state of collapse this year, and Airbnb in major French cities has also been severely impacted.</p><p>The restaurant industry will be hit harder because the government allows it to operate for very few hours. Of course, the government subsidies are also very substantial. If high-end restaurants don't open, they can receive most of the government's loan assistance, and employees who don't work can also receive most of their wages. This is called technical unemployment benefits, which are borne by the government.</p><p>In addition, there were indeed quite a few mid-to-low-end restaurants offering takeout last year. Many restaurants in Paris that allow online ordering have appeared. Some restaurants, unable to open normally, have transformed into online takeout services. This is indeed the case.</p><p><b>4</b></p><p><b>We've been out of work for a year now, and we haven't seen any Chinese people fighting for masks in Japan.</b></p><p>Narrator: Mr. D</p><p>Profile: Arrived in Japan in 2006, employee of a local travel agency.</p><p>When the COVID-19 pandemic first broke out in Japan in 2020, my colleagues and I had the same thought: if we controlled it, it would be fine during the May Day Golden Week holiday. However, by May Day, the epidemic was still spreading, so we could only look forward to the National Day holiday, but the National Day holiday still didn't work, and we could only look forward to New Year's Day, but the National Day holiday still didn't work. My current state of mind is that I hope to recover somewhat this year.</p><p>However, after the whole year of last year, everyone knows that there is nothing that can be done about the epidemic in the short term. It will take some time for everyone to get vaccinated when the vaccine is available. This year, things may not be so optimistic.</p><p>Later, Japan issued several notices banning all foreign imports and all foreigners from entering Japan. But for us, such notices no longer made much sense, because no matter how anxious we were, no one would come, and we couldn't conduct business.</p><p>The biggest impact on everyone was probably in March, April, and May last year. After that, everyone got used to it. No matter how many bans or openings there were, everyone understood that as long as the epidemic did not end, no matter how much they opened, it would be temporary. They might open for a week and then be stopped again.</p><p>Since February 2020, there have been virtually no foreign tourists. However, Japan has a policy that allocates some budget to subsidize tourism products in order to support its tourism industry and hotels. It has been implemented intermittently since last year, and it is stopped whenever the epidemic becomes serious.</p><p>This is the state of domestic travel, and basically no one is looking forward to overseas travel. Although there are no government penalties for taking overseas tours now, travel agencies will not take the risk of doing so. First, no one will come, and the operating costs and revenue are not proportional; Secondly, if someone in this group gets infected, the company will be unable to conduct future business, which would have a significant negative impact.</p><p>Currently, it seems that Japan has few pristine places left to offer tourists, especially Hokkaido, where the pandemic is very severe. Because Hokkaido entered the ice and snow season at the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020, many foreign visitors passed by and then brought the virus to Hokkaido. Therefore, when the epidemic first broke out in Japan, Hokkaido was the most severely affected. In addition, other major cities such as Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya have hundreds or even thousands of confirmed cases a day.</p><p>Of course, the situation is slightly better in some places, such as Yamagata Prefecture and Akita Prefecture, which are not very economically developed and have low population mobility. The number of infections is relatively small, and the daily increase is in the single digits. However, these individual counties will not open international routes separately to receive guests. If they do open up, it will definitely be a stable state for the whole country. Either they will open them all, or they will not open them at all. That's the only way.</p><p>For more than a year, we have had almost no jobs. We are in the tourism business, and there are no customers coming. No matter how we try to save ourselves, it is useless. For now, we can only make some videos or do some overseas promotion through live streaming, so as to build some popularity for the future recovery of the tourism industry. Anyway, the Japanese are never idle; they find something to do whenever they have free time.</p><p>Because I work for a company, I have a salary to guarantee my salary. However, many of my friends who run their own tourism businesses, such as charter drivers, face a lot of pressure and end up doing some personal shopping to make a living.</p><p>Speaking of personal shoppers, I would also like to say something. Many people say that Chinese tourists bought masks in Japan in large numbers in January, but I really didn't notice that. To be honest, Japanese masks are quite expensive. The normal price of masks in Japan is fifty or sixty yuan a pack, which is not cheap compared to when masks were in short supply in China. Therefore, there may be a few individuals who come to Japan to buy masks, but this is not a common phenomenon.</p><p>My income has definitely decreased. I don't have as much business anymore, so I don't have overtime pay or subsidies, so my overall income has decreased somewhat. Because consumption in Japan is relatively high, there are mortgage payments, and families have many expenses, so the past year has indeed been a bit tight.</p>","source":"txcj","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>I worked as a tour guide overseas: I had to return home after losing millions</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 12.5px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nI worked as a tour guide overseas: I had to return home after losing millions\n</h2>\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n<p class=\"head\">\n<strong class=\"h-name small\">腾讯财经</strong><span class=\"h-time small\">2021-01-23 08:53</span>\n</p>\n</h4>\n</header>\n<article>\n<p>Some of my fleet vehicles are in poor condition, and I've sold about half of them so far. Of course, used cars aren't so easy to sell during the pandemic, and the discounts are higher than usual, around 60-70% off. A year passed like this, and I still couldn't take it anymore. I had no income that year, which meant I lost millions of RMB. In addition, the long break inevitably made me panic, so in the end I chose to return to China. The pandemic broke out like dominoes around the world, and even in 2021, the overseas pandemic showed no signs of abating, which severely damaged the global tourism industry.</p><p>Data released by the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) shows that the number of international tourists decreased by approximately 1.1 billion in 2020, a drop of between 70% and 75%. The loss of international tourism revenue amounted to $1.1 trillion, resulting in a global economic loss of $2 trillion.</p><p>When the nest is overturned, how can there be an intact egg? The outbreak of the global pandemic has also presented tour guides who previously worked in \"overseas travel\" with the most difficult year of their careers. For many overseas tour guides, this year may be \"zero customers, zero income\" or even unemployed. So how did these overseas tour guides get through this year? What difficult or interesting stories have happened to them?</p><p>After focusing on overseas home purchases and overseas real estate agencies in the previous two episodes, \"Personal Experience\" shifts its focus to overseas tour guides. This episode focuses on four tour guides who have long been engaged in overseas travel to France, the UK, and Japan. During the pandemic, some of them lost millions and had to travel back to China, while others used this free time to study short videos and maintain a normal income through e-commerce and promotion... The following is the \"pandemic story\" of these four tour guides:</p><p><b>1</b></p><p><b>In 2020, he was unemployed and lost nearly a million yuan at home. He sold half of his fleet before returning to China.</b></p><p>Narrator: Mr. Wang</p><p>Profile: Engaged in the tourism industry in Scotland, UK in 2005, receiving domestic tour groups.</p><p>I started working in the overseas tourism industry in 2005, mainly in Scotland, UK, and have been doing it for 15 years now.</p><p>I started as a single tour guide, and as I gained experience, I formed my own small company with a fleet of vehicles that would hire drivers and tour guides to serve domestic tour groups.</p><p>Before the pandemic, I would host about a hundred domestic tour groups a year, including companies, schools, MBA colleges, summer camps, business trips, exhibitions, and other tour groups of all sizes. They are basically busy from April to December, with a small peak around Christmas. They stay busy for about nine months, and the remaining months are the off-season for the whole family to rest.</p><p>Before the pandemic, our income wasn't particularly high, but we definitely had no problem supporting our team and family. Our annual income was around £100,000. At the same time, because we could take a holiday every year during the off-season, whether we were resting in the UK or returning home, we were living a relatively good life.</p><p>Unexpectedly, the entire year of 2020 will be shrouded in the shadow of the epidemic. First, there was an outbreak in Wuhan, China, and then recently there was a large-scale outbreak in the UK. It is conceivable that Chinese people will certainly not take such risks to travel overseas again, let alone to the UK. As a result, our tourism work has been completely suspended, and a large number of tour guides and convoy operators engaged in domestic tours to the UK are also unemployed.</p><p>Fortunately, the UK also provides subsidies to us and the tourism industry. This subsidy is 80% of your monthly salary in the month you previously filed your taxes, which guarantees that you will have a basic living income every month. For example, if you earn £5,000 a month, and you file your taxes normally, the government will only give you £4,000 in subsidies this month. Of course, the amount of subsidies may vary depending on the company's and individual's circumstances.</p><p>So when the pandemic hit, because I still had savings and government subsidies, my life wasn't really affected. It was like taking a year's vacation in the UK, tidying up the garden, playing golf, and so on.</p><p>The reality is that not everyone files their taxes normally. The tax rate in the UK is between 20-30%. For example, some tour guides wanted to keep more money in their hands before the pandemic, so they would report less tax or not at all.</p><p>However, the subsidy rule is that the more taxes you filed before, the more subsidies you can receive this time. If you didn't file taxes before, you wouldn't receive the subsidies and would have to rely on yourself.</p><p>Without subsidies and savings, even if there is a risk of infection, people have to find other jobs to do, such as working in Chinese restaurants, takeout shops, or delivering goods. Others will do jobs such as picking up international students at the airport, returning them to China, and moving them.</p><p>A friend of mine is like this. He was helping international students move and pick them up from the airport to return to China. Finally, in the car he was taking them back to China, one of the international students was diagnosed. He was terrified. Fortunately, he was okay in the end, but it also reflects the helplessness of his survival situation.</p><p>In addition, because I own a travel agency, unlike individuals, in addition to subsidies, the government will also provide me with an interest-free loan based on my turnover. If I need it, I will use this interest-free loan.</p><p>Of course, in order to reduce expenses, I am still doing things to ensure cash flow. For example, I have sold almost all of my fleet of cars that are not in good condition and need to be updated in the future. I have sold about half of my fleet so far. Of course, used cars are not so easy to sell during the pandemic, and the discounts are higher than usual, about 60-70%.</p><p>Regarding employees, since we don't have a long-term employment relationship with the tour guides, most of them are settled on a daily basis, meaning you get paid for each day you work. The team they work for isn't necessarily fixed, so I'm fine. I don't have to pay employees a fixed basic salary every month, which helps me somewhat.</p><p>However, a year passed, and I still couldn't take it anymore. I had no income that year, which meant I lost millions of RMB. In addition, the long break inevitably made me panic, so in the end I chose to return to China.</p><p>I first arrived in Beijing in mid-January 2021. I first flew to Shanghai and quarantined there for 21 days. I am currently under observation in accordance with Beijing's epidemic prevention requirements until the relevant personnel notify me that I can go out.</p><p>large reason for returning to China was my assessment of the UK pandemic. I think it will take at least 4-5 years for the UK tourism industry to recover to pre-pandemic levels. If I rely solely on the UK tourism industry, I will be unemployed in the next few years. Moreover, with Brexit, the actual impact on the local economy will be quite significant, and I cannot sit and wait forever.</p><p>I'm from Beijing, and my house and relatives are all in Beijing, so I've decided to go back to China and think carefully about what I want to do in the next few years.</p><p>However, returning to China for a career transition will be more difficult. Domestic travel agencies have also been impacted by the pandemic, and compared to domestic tour guides, I may not have more advantages. When I go to work for a company, I'm in my forties. I wouldn't be willing to pay 10,000 or 8,000 yuan, but I would be willing to pay 50,000 yuan. But why would a company want me? They could easily find a young elite, so I still need to find a suitable direction for myself.</p><p>It seems more realistic now that I might do some golf projects with friends. I've also visited many golf clubs and studied golf operations before. During this period, I also met many people in the domestic golf industry, so I plan to go to Shenzhen or Yunnan to operate a youth golf course or training ground. However, this is still a preliminary idea and has not yet reached the stage of putting it into practice.</p><p>As for the UK tourism industry, if the global pandemic improves, I will still return to this industry. After all, I have been in this industry for so many years and I love it very much. In order to better attract the clients I lead tours with, I have learned a lot about golf and wine, and I have also studied it in depth. I don't want to give up just like that. I also really hope that the pandemic will pass and overseas travel will rebound. But at least for now, this idea is a bit too optimistic.</p><p><b>2</b></p><p><b>When I have nothing to do, I focus on researching short videos; the pandemic has boosted the food delivery industry in the UK.</b></p><p>Narrator: Brother Bao from the UK</p><p>Profile: He has lived in the UK for nearly 20 years and mainly leads tour groups of Chinese people.</p><p>When the pandemic first broke out in 2020, the situation in the UK, Spain, and Italy was quite serious. I thought the pandemic would affect the European tourism industry, but I didn't expect it to last so long. I thought there shouldn't be any problems in 2021, but now I feel that this year will be tough too.</p><p>After the outbreak of the pandemic, many Chinese tourists stopped coming. The groups I handle are more upscale, privately tailored, as well as some large MBA study tours and business tours. There were still some family group tours in January and February 2020, but most people started canceling their bookings for March to May, and by the time the UK lockdown began in March, there were no more tourists.</p><p>Later, during the May Day holiday and summer vacation, the domestic epidemic eased somewhat, and some people came to inquire, but no groups were formed. All the tour groups, plus the summer camps, didn't come. We have many Chinese tour guides in the UK, perhaps three or four hundred of them full-time. Most of them have changed careers or returned to their home countries, so this incident has had a huge impact on the tour guide groups.</p><p>In addition, domestic tourism in the UK is also quite sluggish. The British are quite obedient to the government. If the government says the city is under lockdown and they are not allowed to move around freely, they will really stay at home and not wander around. Therefore, many tourist attractions in the UK have closed at all. Some major attractions, such as the British Museum, require online reservations in advance to limit the number of people and visitors. They also set up single-route tours to ensure the safety of visitors.</p><p>I went to Scotland in November 2020. It wasn't really a tourist trip, but I went there to run some errands and stayed in a hotel for a while. After staying for four days, I could feel the exploitation of the entire tourism industry, including the particularly luxurious hotels in the city center, which were very cheap. You could see that the exploitation was indeed terrible.</p><p>So from the tour guide's perspective, there was basically no business in the past year, and they could only do other things. I started making short videos in 2019, mainly to promote my travel business. Later, I did receive some customers from the platform, and my followers reached more than 300,000.</p><p>After the outbreak of the pandemic, I started to study this topic seriously, slightly changed the video style, and introduced the local customs and culture of the UK. Taking this opportunity, I built my account, which now has more than 2 million followers. So, I've essentially become a We Media resident now.</p><p>I monetize my videos through both e-commerce and advertising. In 2020, I took on some promotional advertisements, and the income was decent, on par with my previous income as a tour guide.</p><p>The government will also provide some subsidies. But for us, it's not really that much. In other industries, subsidies are basically 80%, such as hotels. However, for tour guides, salaries are not easy to measure because they are paid when there are tours, and not when there are no tours. The subsidies are not that much, and you can only apply for a small fixed amount.</p><p>There aren't many people around me who do personal shopping. I just have a few brands or merchants here who have mini-programs. I help them promote the mini-programs, and you can buy things on them. Actually, it's quite difficult to buy through personal shoppers these days. The UK pandemic is quite severe, and domestic consumers are quite worried about logistics. Many people in China are reluctant to buy things shipped directly back from the UK for fear of carrying the virus. So some of my personal shopper friends are also complaining.</p><p>The catering industry in the UK is also not ideal, because catering and tourism are also linked. Large luxury restaurants have been hit harder, but the government will provide them with some compensation and support. Some have survived, while others have gone bankrupt. However, food delivery is booming. The pandemic has changed the consumption habits of British people and local Chinese people. They are more willing to order online, and food delivery apps have also become quite popular.</p><p><b>3</b></p><p><b>Domestic tourism in France is particularly popular, with some rural guesthouses experiencing an occupancy rate of 120%.</b></p><p>Narrator: Mr. Y</p><p>Profile: Residing in France for decades, freelancing, such as contributing to domestic media and organizing business delegations.</p><p>For the past year, I have had almost no contact with any overseas tourists. There are two types of Chinese people who return to France. The first type is Chinese people who live in France long-term and return to France after visiting relatives or running errands in China. The second type is international students. If there are no other Chinese people, how could anyone still come to France for tourism in these extraordinary times?</p><p>There are fewer Chinese people, but domestic tourism in France is excellent. After the pandemic hit, international tourism suffered a loss of about 70% to 80%, but domestic tourism only suffered a loss of about 20%. Therefore, the revenue of the entire French tourism industry did not decline significantly, mainly because domestic tourism had a positive impact.</p><p>In 2020, most French people chose to vacation domestically. The characteristic of this vacation is the development of green tourism, going to less crowded places, including many Parisians who go to their second homes in the countryside or rent a house in the countryside and \"isolate\" there. This has led to the development of tourism in many remote parts of France. In addition, beach tourism was also quite popular last year, especially in summer, when tourism in the Mediterranean region was booming, with the French Riviera reaching 70% to 80% of its usual capacity.</p><p>There are also some scenic spots in big cities, such as the Louvre and the Palace of Versailles, which have been significantly affected. These attractions were closed during the French lockdown and will only open to the public after the lockdown is lifted. However, even if it is open, there are still people restrictions. You have to make an appointment online and calculate how many people can get in. These places are mainly visited by international tourists, so their overall revenue has dropped significantly, with the Louvre and Versailles receiving more than 50% of their revenue.</p><p>I saw international tourists in Paris, but they mainly came from neighboring countries: Belgians, Dutch, British, Germans, and Spaniards. These people came to France for tourism. Because Europeans still treated pneumonia like influenza, there was a period of time when the borders were not closed or checked at all. They came by car or train, and I even had the idea of driving to Italy for a trip. In June and July, Europeans feel that there's nothing to be afraid of, because you just need to wear a mask and be careful when you go to the hotel. That's what everyone thinks.</p><p>The Chinese tour guide industry in France is in decline, but there is a very important reason why people still feel they can survive: France provides very high levels of aid.</p><p>If you work in a travel agency and are employed by a company as a tour guide, the travel agency pays you a salary. During the pandemic, you will receive 83% of your salary, which is stipulated by the government, so you will not be significantly affected. If you are a freelancer working as a tour guide, the government will ease your loan burden and provide you with a subsidy of at least 1,500 euros per month.</p><p>Therefore, although tour guide business was sluggish in 2020 and income was not comparable to before, maintaining a normal standard of living was still not a problem. Medical resources were also quite developed, and testing was free whether you were sick or not, which was quite good.</p><p>I heard that some tour guides started doing overseas personal shopping this year, but the current situation is not something you can just do whenever you want. There are several important factors for overseas personal shoppers. First, you need to have your own customer base. Second, customs restrictions on personal shoppers are becoming increasingly strict. Third, many stores have closed during the lockdown period, making it quite difficult for you to do personal shoppers.</p><p>But if you run a bed and breakfast in the countryside, it will be quite good. France has a unique characteristic: in rural areas, farmers have the right to rent out their houses to tourists, and the government collects very low taxes to encourage rural tourism. Rural hotels have been very popular over the past year, with many popular tourist destinations fully booked during the summer, reaching an occupancy rate of around 120%.</p><p>However, Airbnb is relatively weak in rural areas. They mainly operate guesthouses in big cities, such as Paris, where there are very few tourists. As a result, the tourism industry in Paris is in a state of collapse this year, and Airbnb in major French cities has also been severely impacted.</p><p>The restaurant industry will be hit harder because the government allows it to operate for very few hours. Of course, the government subsidies are also very substantial. If high-end restaurants don't open, they can receive most of the government's loan assistance, and employees who don't work can also receive most of their wages. This is called technical unemployment benefits, which are borne by the government.</p><p>In addition, there were indeed quite a few mid-to-low-end restaurants offering takeout last year. Many restaurants in Paris that allow online ordering have appeared. Some restaurants, unable to open normally, have transformed into online takeout services. This is indeed the case.</p><p><b>4</b></p><p><b>We've been out of work for a year now, and we haven't seen any Chinese people fighting for masks in Japan.</b></p><p>Narrator: Mr. D</p><p>Profile: Arrived in Japan in 2006, employee of a local travel agency.</p><p>When the COVID-19 pandemic first broke out in Japan in 2020, my colleagues and I had the same thought: if we controlled it, it would be fine during the May Day Golden Week holiday. However, by May Day, the epidemic was still spreading, so we could only look forward to the National Day holiday, but the National Day holiday still didn't work, and we could only look forward to New Year's Day, but the National Day holiday still didn't work. My current state of mind is that I hope to recover somewhat this year.</p><p>However, after the whole year of last year, everyone knows that there is nothing that can be done about the epidemic in the short term. It will take some time for everyone to get vaccinated when the vaccine is available. This year, things may not be so optimistic.</p><p>Later, Japan issued several notices banning all foreign imports and all foreigners from entering Japan. But for us, such notices no longer made much sense, because no matter how anxious we were, no one would come, and we couldn't conduct business.</p><p>The biggest impact on everyone was probably in March, April, and May last year. After that, everyone got used to it. No matter how many bans or openings there were, everyone understood that as long as the epidemic did not end, no matter how much they opened, it would be temporary. They might open for a week and then be stopped again.</p><p>Since February 2020, there have been virtually no foreign tourists. However, Japan has a policy that allocates some budget to subsidize tourism products in order to support its tourism industry and hotels. It has been implemented intermittently since last year, and it is stopped whenever the epidemic becomes serious.</p><p>This is the state of domestic travel, and basically no one is looking forward to overseas travel. Although there are no government penalties for taking overseas tours now, travel agencies will not take the risk of doing so. First, no one will come, and the operating costs and revenue are not proportional; Secondly, if someone in this group gets infected, the company will be unable to conduct future business, which would have a significant negative impact.</p><p>Currently, it seems that Japan has few pristine places left to offer tourists, especially Hokkaido, where the pandemic is very severe. Because Hokkaido entered the ice and snow season at the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020, many foreign visitors passed by and then brought the virus to Hokkaido. Therefore, when the epidemic first broke out in Japan, Hokkaido was the most severely affected. In addition, other major cities such as Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya have hundreds or even thousands of confirmed cases a day.</p><p>Of course, the situation is slightly better in some places, such as Yamagata Prefecture and Akita Prefecture, which are not very economically developed and have low population mobility. The number of infections is relatively small, and the daily increase is in the single digits. However, these individual counties will not open international routes separately to receive guests. If they do open up, it will definitely be a stable state for the whole country. Either they will open them all, or they will not open them at all. That's the only way.</p><p>For more than a year, we have had almost no jobs. We are in the tourism business, and there are no customers coming. No matter how we try to save ourselves, it is useless. For now, we can only make some videos or do some overseas promotion through live streaming, so as to build some popularity for the future recovery of the tourism industry. Anyway, the Japanese are never idle; they find something to do whenever they have free time.</p><p>Because I work for a company, I have a salary to guarantee my salary. However, many of my friends who run their own tourism businesses, such as charter drivers, face a lot of pressure and end up doing some personal shopping to make a living.</p><p>Speaking of personal shoppers, I would also like to say something. Many people say that Chinese tourists bought masks in Japan in large numbers in January, but I really didn't notice that. To be honest, Japanese masks are quite expensive. The normal price of masks in Japan is fifty or sixty yuan a pack, which is not cheap compared to when masks were in short supply in China. Therefore, there may be a few individuals who come to Japan to buy masks, but this is not a common phenomenon.</p><p>My income has definitely decreased. I don't have as much business anymore, so I don't have overtime pay or subsidies, so my overall income has decreased somewhat. Because consumption in Japan is relatively high, there are mortgage payments, and families have many expenses, so the past year has indeed been a bit tight.</p>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n<p> source：<a 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玩的。6月份、7月份的时候，欧洲人的感觉就是没有什么好怕的，因为你戴着口罩，到酒店注意一点就好了，大家都是这么认为的。\n在法国的华人导游业处于一片凋零，但是为什么大家还觉得能够过下去，有一个很重要的原因，法国的援助力度是非常高的。\n如果你是在旅行社工作，受雇于企业当导游，旅行社给你工资。疫情期间，你会得到83%的工资，这是政府规定的，所以你没受大的影响。如果你是自由职业者，个人做导游业务的，国家给你减轻贷款压力，此外每个月起码给你1500欧元的补助。\n所以，尽管2020年导游生意冷淡，收入不能跟以前比，但是维持正常的生活水准还是没问题的，医疗资源也挺发达，你是生了病还是没有生病，做检测都不要钱的，这点还是相当不错的。\n我听说有导游今年开始做海外代购，但是现在这个情况也不是你想做就能做。海外代购有几个重要因素，第一你要先有自己的客户群，第二海关对于代购的限制越来越严了，第三在禁足期间，很多商店都关门了，你要做代购也是相当困难。\n但如果你是在乡村开民宿的，就会相当不错。法国有一个特点，在乡村地区，农民有权利出租自己的房子给游客住，政府收税很低，就是为了鼓励乡村旅游的。过去一年农村酒店非常火，很多热门旅游地带在夏天期间全部订满，达到 120%左右的入住率。\n但像爱彼迎在乡村地区比较弱，他们主要是在大城市的民宿，比如巴黎，来旅游的人很少，所以今年巴黎的旅游业就处于一种比较崩溃的状态，包括爱彼迎在法国的大城市也受到了很大的打击。\n餐饮业受到的打击会比较大，因为政府允许它营业的时间很少。当然政府补助的力度也是非常大的。高档饭店不开门，就可以从国家拿大部分的贷款援助，不上班的员工也能拿到大部分工资，这个叫技术性失业工资，由政府承担。\n此外，中低档饭店做外卖的现象去年确实也挺多的，巴黎已经出现了很多可以网上订购的饭店，有些餐馆无法正常开门营业，就转型专门做网上订购外卖的业务，这个确实是有的。\n4\n我们已经一年没有活干了，没看到中国人在日本抢口罩\n口述人：D先生\n人物档案：2006年到日本，当地某旅行社员工\n2020年疫情在日本刚刚爆发的时候，我和同事的想法都一样，觉得控制一下，到了五一黄金周就好了。但是等到了五一，疫情还在蔓延，只能又盼十一，结果十一还是不行，又只能盼元旦，结果元旦还是不行，现在的内心状态就是盼着今年能恢复一些。\n但是经历了去年一整年，大家也知道疫情这个事情，短期没有办法，疫苗出来大家都接种要看一段时间，今年搞不好没那么乐观了。\n后来日本发布过几次通知，禁止一切境外输入，禁止所有外国人进入日本，但对于我们来说，这样的通知，已经没啥感觉了，因为再着急，也没人来，没办法开展业务。\n对大家比较大的影响应该是在去年三四五月份，后续大家都很习惯了，再有什么禁止也好，开放也好，大家心里都明白，只要疫情不结束，再怎么开放，也都是短暂的，说不定开放一个礼拜，又被叫停了。\n从2020年二月份至今，国外游客基本就没有了，但日本有一个政策，为了扶持本国的旅游业、酒店，拨出来一些预算给旅游产品做补贴。从去年开始断断续续的执行，只要疫情一严重，就把它停了。\n国内游都是这个状态，海外游基本没人期待，虽然现在带国外团，政府没有什么处罚措施，但是旅行社也不会去冒险做这个事情。第一是不会有人来，营业的成本和收入不成正比；第二，万一要是这个团有人感染，公司以后的业务就没有办法做了，这个负面影响还是很大的。\n目前看日本已经没有什么净土可以提供给游客了，尤其是北海道，疫情非常严重。因为2019年年底和2020年年初，北海道进入到冰雪季，很多国外客人的都过去了，然后就把病毒带到北海道。所以疫情刚在日本爆发的时候，北海道是最严重的。此外，其他像东京、大阪、名古屋这些大城市，一天的确诊病例都是成百上千人。\n当然，也有一些地方的情况稍微好一点，像山行县、秋田县这些经济不是很发达、人口流动不是很大的地方，相对来说感染人数比较少，每天的增长是个位数。但是这些个别的县也不会单独开通国际航线来接待客人，如果真是开放了，它一定是全国整体的稳定状态，要不然就全开，要不然就不开，只能是这样。\n这一年多，我们几乎没有什么工作，做旅游生意的，没有客人来，怎么自救也没用。我们现在只能做一些视频，或者通过网络直播，针对海外做一些宣传，为之后旅游业恢复，积累点人气。反正日本人不会闲着，没事就找事干。\n因为我是在公司上班，是有工资做保障的，但是很多朋友，自己在做旅游生意的，比如包车司机，他们的压力会比较大，会搞一些代购，维持生计。\n提到代购也说一点，很多人都说1月份有中国游客在日本大肆购买口罩，但这个我确实没注意到。说实话日本口罩比较贵。日本口罩正常价格是五六十块钱一包，跟国内口罩最紧缺的时候相比，卖的也都不便宜。所以可能会有个别人来日本买口罩，但不是普遍现象。\n我这边的收入肯定也是减少了，没有那么多业务了，也就没有加班费和补助费了，所以整体收入是有一些减少。因为日本的消费比较高，要供房，家庭需要开销的地方比较多，所以过去一年日子确实过得有点紧巴巴。","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{}},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":3318,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0}],"lives":[]}
