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Beijing sees first tour group returning after Paris attacks

(People's Daily Online)    16:07, November 17, 2015
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A couple hugs each other after they walk out the checkpoint. This couple has just arrived in Beijing after their trip to France.

Chinese tourists who travelled in France are back to China three days after last Friday's terrorist attacks in Paris. A tour group of 32 tourists arrived at the Beijing Capital International Airport on Monday morning after their short stay in Paris.

The Austrian Airlines OS063 landed on the runway at 10:06 a.m., Monday, 14 minutes earlier than the schedule. A group of 32 Chinese tourists took this flight and returned to China after their trip to Paris.

According to the staff of the travel agency, these 32 tourists were scheduled to make a ten-day trip to France, including a travel to Paris on Nov. 13 and Nov. 14. The tour group is composed mainly of the middle-aged and seniors.

Yu Xiaodan, the tour leader, said that their trip in Paris on Nov. 13 finished at about 8.p.m and then the tourists went back to their hotel.

Yu said that she got to know the terrorist attacks through Wechat Friend's Circle and news. After waking up on the morning of Nov. 14, she communicated with the travel agency and cancelled their trip in Paris on that day after informing all the tourists of what had happened in Paris. The tourists did what they were told to. They stayed at the hotel for a day, waiting for their departure from France on Nov. 15, 2015.

The major travel agencies say that Chinese tourists in France began to depart from Paris in succession since Nov. 14, 2015. This tour group of 32 tourists is the first group which has returned to China from France.

(For the latest China news, Please follow People's Daily on Twitter and Facebook)(Editor:Ma Xiaochun,Bianji)

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