Chinese visitor arrivals to Singapore rose 26.4% YoY in the 10 months to October 31, to 1.77 million, accounting for 16.7% of the total visitor arrivals in the time.
A study found 53% of regular users of Facebook Messenger and sister service WhatsApp claim to have interacted with a brand within the messaging environment.
Of the 2,700 theme parks in China, only 10% are reportedly making profits this year, 70% are said to be in the red, with the rest at break-even point, according to a report on Chinese theme parks.
China has become "the world's largest outbound tourism market" and "the world's fourth largest tourist destination", according to the country's tourism authority.
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.
Guests are becoming increasingly tech-savvy and sophisticated travelers. They all expect personalization, want unique experiences and have higher expectations. However the real question they all had was: how do hotels achieve this?
China plans to raise tourism revenue to RMB 7 trillion (USD 1 trillion) by 2020, the Chinese government said. The sector made more than RMB 4 trillion in 2015.
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.