06 Dec | Author: Julia G | Category:
Travel
Some impressive statistics on China Tourism.
China is consolidating its status as Asia’s largest outbound tourism market as 28.55 million people travelled abroad in the first 10 months of 2006 year.
World Tourism Organisation (WTO) estimate of 100m by 2020.
Stripping out travel to Hong Kong and Macau, which represents around 70% of the total, and considering that only 4% of the urban population has travelled overseas, we can clearly see the huge growth potential.
Domestic Travel Market: China’s domestic tourism market makes up more than 90% of the country’s tourism traffic, and contributes more than 70% of total tourism revenue. In 2003, domestic tourists reached 870 million, which is 3.6 times for the same period in 1985. At least 1.21 billion person-times of Chinese travelled within the country last year (2005), an increase of 53 per cent over 2001.
China is also gaining appeal as a top tourist destination. Official statistics show that China received 46.8 million tourists last year, ranking fourth globally. The tourists spent a total of US$29.3 billion, placing China sixth globally.
Sources: china-embassy.org, usembassy-china.org.cn , mindbranch.com
Tags: Asia, China
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