Chinese tourists are expected to account for nearly half of all foreign tourists this year with 8.04 million predicted to visit South Korea, up 34.4% from last year, reported Yonhap.
China’s tourism and sports authorities are joining forces to boost the country’s sports-related tourism, aiming to yield 1 billion trips and more than RMB 1 trillion tourism receipts from this segment by 2020.
Japan received a total of 1.875 million foreign visitors in November, and visitor arrivals from China rose 19.2% to 0.4328 million, accounting for 23% of the total arrivals to the country.
Japanese travel companies JTB and Kinki Nippon eye sales of Japan packages by setting up JVs with China' local companies to gain green lights.
Decline in Chinese tourist arrivals to Thailand is expected to continue at least until the first quarter of 2017 due to recent crackdown on low-cost tours, reported Bangkok Post.
Of the more than 60 million cross-border visitors to New York city, nearly a million were from China. This makes China the second largest tourist source after UK.
The average spend per tourist could stagnate in coming years through 2020 despite the surging numbers of Chinese consumers shopping overseas.
Six Chinese airlines that fly to Australia plan to work together to boost the Sino-Aussie travel market which is expected to be worth more than AUD 13 billion by 2020.