China will continue to drive tourism in Asia Pacific this year, with 50.4 million Chinese visitors expected to travel to destinations in the region in 2016.
French resort operator Club Med signed a cooperation agreement with Yuyuan Tourist Mart on June 20. The companies will establish Club Med Tomamu within the Hokkaido Tomamu Resort area.
The market in China is enormous and growing rapidly. Four Chinese firms were among the world’s ten biggest park operators by attendance in 2015; the year before only one made the list.
Shanghai Disney Resort, the first on the Chinese mainland, is expected to bring three to four million more air travelers to Shanghai each year and reshape the city's civil aviation market.
The Walt Disney Company’s newest “happiest place” opened Thursday in Shanghai, a USD5.5 billion project that’s been in the works for nearly 20 years.
While Asia-Pacific recorded overall growth in inbound travel in Q1 2016, international visitor arrivals into Hong Kong plummeted after the city saw a drastic fall in visitors from China, according to a PATA financial report.
Airlines cancel routes due to declines in group visitors and group permit applications are also down, signaling more declines.
Shanghai Disney Resort opens today, becoming the first Disney theme park in mainland China and the company’s largest global resort.