Tour operators have been warned to suspend Uyghur area visits due to human rights violations in China.
Human rights activists for the Uyghur people have demanded that western travel agencies cease marketing vacation packages that include stops in Xinjiang, where human rights violations by the government have been described as a genocide by certain nations.
The proposal is timed with China's reopening to international tourists after the epidemic and President Xi Jinping's encouragement of more travel to the area.
On Wednesday, the U.S.-based Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) issued a study warning that western tourists visiting the area would be normalizing Chinese government programs "intended to destroy the Uyghur identity."
Through its practices of mass imprisonment, reeducation, surveillance, population control, and persecution of religious and cultural expression in the area,...