SERBIA: A “bride” in a fairly white gown and trainers runs through a field, her long white veil fluttering behind and her “groom” in hot pursuit.
It is not a scene through the Hollywood hit “Runaway Bride” but a normal Serbian wedding service — just with all of the functions played by Chinese tourists.
Enticed by visa-free travel and costs that are low to Western Europe, the Chinese happen arriving at Serbia inside their droves.
The landlocked Balkan state has become among the fastest-growing locations in European countries for Chinese travellers, topping the charts just last year, and it has been rolling out of the carpet that is red.
From Chinese restaurants, to street indications in Mandarin, infrastructure has quickly sprung up.
Chinese authorities had been also sent towards the roads of Belgrade in the summertime to aid keep in touch with their compatriots, a programme also piloted various other European metropolitan areas.
Plus in rural western Serbia, locals into the little, picturesque vacation town of Gostoljublje have discovered ways to claim a piece associated with the cake.
Zeljko Sredic, whom has the resort of wood vacation homes, lays on a complete wedding that is serbian, without really getting hitched.
“We thought we would do weddings since they include most of the traditions: the tradition of food, track, party, costumes and so forth,” he told AFP.
The wedding extravaganza has been wooing the Chinese in particular since it began two years ago against rolling hills and farmland.
On a recently available Saturday, two busloads of tourists mostly from Shanghai had been welcomed with people music and drawn right into a traditional“kolo” that is circular by their Serbian hosts.
“They constantly want one thing uncommon, different things and also this is positively one thing you simply can’t get in agencies which have typical tours to offer,” Katarina Jovancic, the team’s Serbian guide, stated in the sidelines associated with the dance. Continue reading “Serbia, a draw that is big Chinese tourists”