China's inbound trips rose 3.8% to 138 million and outbound trips increased 4.3% to 122 million in 2016, according to CNTA.
HelloWorld, an online travel agency that is part of the Stella Travel Services group in Australia, was apparently able to boast such a metric but decided it needed to capture the imagination of those playing in the world of Instagram.
TripAdvisor subsidiary Smarter Travel Media, home to a number of high-profile content sites, will turn off the lights to VirtualTourist during the latter stages of the first quarter of 2017.
Chinese travelers will return to Europe to celebrate the Chinese New Year in late January after a dip in tourist arrivals in 2016, according to ForwardKeys data.
China’s travel agencies organized 17.02 million outbound trips in the third quarter of 2016, up by 23.1% YoY, according to CNTA data.
While the hotel industry has said Airbnb isn’t as big a threat to their business as some may think it is, a new report from Morgan Stanley Research suggests otherwise.
Visits by China's outbound tourists are forecast to reach 150 million in 2020 from 117 million in 2015, up 5.09% each year, according to the country's tourism authority.
It is unusual for a travel tech trends report to raise the idea some tech initiatives could cross over from helpful to intrusive. Intrusion could be a specific concern of Middle Eastern travelers.