A surge in the number of Chinese visitors to Australia has been linked to record profits in the country's tourism industry.
Thailand's tourism sector will rebound from the negative impact of the recent bombing attack in downtown Bangkok, which left at least 20 people dead.
Arrivals to Hong Kong in the first half of 2015 grew only 2.8%, the slowest rate of growth since 2009 and retail industry is bracing itself for a wave of shop closures.
The World Travel and Tourism Council projects that China’s investments in tourism, estimated to total US$278.7 billion, will overtake the USA by 2025.
The number of Chinese visitors to France grew 50% y-o-y in the first quarter of 2015, and the France issued 56% more visas to Chinese nationals.
Taiwan will increase the daily quota for Chinese individual tourists from 4,000 to 5,000 to answer an increasing demand.
China is anticipated to overtake New Zealand to become the largest source of tourists to Australia in 2016, marking a milestone change in Australia’s tourism industry.
6,000 model tourism villages will be developed nation wide by 2020,and over 100,000 tourism locations will be formed with three million country guesthouses.