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China
Tourism and Travel Related Statistics
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Quick
Facts and Figures of China Tourism Industry |
- Total inbound tourists
in 2007: 131 million, about 26.11 million foreigners, among
them16.07 million from Asia; 2.72 million from America; 6.21 million
from Europe; 728, 400 Oceania; 379,100 from Africa.
- Total domestic travelers
in 2007: 1.610 billion, average expenditure per person: 482 yuan
RMB (about $US 66.02)
- Total inbound tourists
in 2006: 124 million
- Total number of travel
agencies: in China: 13,361,
among them
1,364 handle international travel; 11,997handle domestic
travel. There are 12 travel agencies with foreign investment.
(by the end of 2003)
- Total number of hotels: 10481
- Total number of employees in
tourism industry: 5.98 million (2001)
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Source: CNTA |
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China
Tourism Industry Statistics |
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Year |
Inbound
(million people) |
Revenue
(billion) |
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1996 |
51.13 |
10.20 |
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1997 |
57.59 |
12.07 |
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1998 |
63.48 |
12.60 |
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1999 |
72.80 |
14.11 |
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2000 |
83.44 |
16.23 |
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2001 |
89.01 |
17.79 |
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2002 |
97.91 |
20.39 |
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2003 |
91.66 |
17.40 |
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2004 |
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2005 |
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2006 |
124.00 |
33.5 |
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2007 |
131.87 |
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Sources:
China National Tourism Administration
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Ranking |
Country |
Inbound* |
Ratio
% |
Growth
% |
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1 |
Japan |
220.15 |
21.7 |
18.7 |
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2 |
South
Korea |
134.47 |
13.3 |
35.6 |
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3 |
Russia |
108.02 |
10.7 |
29.7 |
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4 |
USA |
89.62 |
8.8 |
21.7 |
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5 |
Malaysia |
44.10 |
4.4 |
18.3 |
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6 |
Singapore |
39.94 |
3.9 |
13.3 |
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7 |
Mongolia |
39.91 |
3.9 |
12.6 |
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8 |
Philippines |
36.39 |
3.6 |
22 |
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9 |
UK |
28.39 |
2.8 |
9.6 |
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10 |
Thailand |
24.11 |
2.4 |
16.8 |
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11 |
Germany |
23.91 |
2.4 |
9.8 |
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12 |
Canada |
23.66 |
2.3 |
10.7 |
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13 |
Australia |
23.41 |
2.3 |
15 |
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14 |
Indonesia |
22.06 |
2.2 |
20.6 |
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15 |
France |
18.50 |
1.8 |
18.8 |
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16 |
India |
12.09 |
1.2 |
43.6 |
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17 |
Viet
Nam |
8.22 |
0.8 |
58.5 |
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18 |
Italy |
7.78 |
0.8 |
7.8 |
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19 |
North
Korea |
7.64 |
0.8 |
9.4 |
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20 |
Holland |
7.60 |
0.7 |
8.4 |
*10,000
people
Sources:
2000 CNTA
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Year |
Total
Tourists* |
Revenue** |
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1996 |
639 |
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1997 |
644 |
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1998 |
694 |
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1999 |
719 |
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2000 |
740 |
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2001 |
784 |
42.44 |
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2002 |
878 |
46.72 |
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2003 |
870 |
41.47 |
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2004 |
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2005 |
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2006 |
1394 |
81.9 |
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2007 |
1610 |
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*unit: million people
** unit: billion US dollars
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Quick
Statistics of China Tourism (Archive) |
- Total inbound tourists
in 2006: 124 million
- Total number of domestic
travelers in 2007: 1.610 billion, average expenditure per person: 482
yuan
RMB (about $US 66.02)
- Total inbound tourists
in 2007: 131 million
- Total number of travel
agencies: in China: 13,361,
among them
1,364 handle international travel; 11,997handle domestic
travel. There are 12 travel agencies with foreign investment.
(by the end of 2003)
- Total number of hotels: 10481
- Total number of employees in
tourism industry: 5.98 million (2001)
- Total number of foreign
tourists: 97.91 million (2002)
- Total number of domestic
tourists: 878 million (2002)
- Tourism Revenue: $67.06
billion USD (2002)
Source: CNTA |
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China Travel
Facts and Figures |
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Total number of travel
agencies: in China: 13,361, among them 1,364
handle international travel; 11,997handle domestic
travel. There are 12 travel agencies with foreign
investment. (by the end of 2003)
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Total number of hotels: 10481
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Total number of employees in
tourism industry: 5.98 million (2001)
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Total number of foreign
tourists: 97.91 million (2002)
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Total number of domestic
tourists: 878 million (2002)
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Tourism Revenue: $67.06 billion
USD (2002)
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China Transported 1.97 Billion
People in Spring Festival of 2005 . The number of
passengers reached 1.97 billion during China's
Spring Festival transport season, a 40-day period.
China's Lunar New Year is an important occasion
for Chinese families to get a reunion. Among those
passengers:
- By railway: 145 million;
- By car/bus: 1.79 billion;
- By water transport: 27 million
- By air: 12.6 million
(Source:
CNTA)
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China's tourism receives $160 bln income in 2007
China's tourism income reached 1,095.7 billion yuan (160.328
billion U.S. dollars) in 2007, up 22.6 percent year-on-year,
said China National Tourism Administration on Thursday.
The country hosted 131.87 million inbound tourists last year.
Domestic and outbound travelers surpassed 1.6
billion and 40.95 million respectively.
The international tourism income reached 41.91 billion US
dollars, up 23.5 percent. Domestic tourism income reached 777.06
billion yuan, up 24.7 percent.
The international inbound market maintained fast momentum last
year. Tourists from other Asian countries took up 61.5 percent
of all international tourists. Republic of Korea continued to be
the first on the list of nations.
By the end of 2007, the country had 13,583 star hotels, up 6.5
percent, while the number of travel agencies increased to 18,943
from 17,957 in previous year.
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CNTA: China is world's 4th largest
host country
Du Jiang, vice director of China
National Tourism Administration, has announced that China has
become the world's fourth largest host country for international
tourists and the largest source market for tourists in the Asia
region.
Du said that in recent years, the
growing tourism industry in China provided a good market
environment for tourism enterprises. Meanwhile, the domestic
tourism industry is rapidly growing with regards to tourism
revenues, the number of inbound tourists, and the size of
tourism enterprises.
To strengthen the China market,
CNTA has said that it will reinforce the cooperation with large
international travel companies in jointly expanding in the
tourism market and will continue to support foreign invested
travel service companies operating in China.
(chinahospitalitynews.com,
September 8, 2008)
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Number of Hotel rooms in Macao surges to 16,148 in 2007
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Overseas tourist visits to Beijing hit new monthly high
Xinhua News Agency November 22, 2007 - A record
472,000 overseas tourists arrived in the Chinese capital in October,
pushing the number of foreign visitors to the city to 3.68 million in
the first 10 months.
Sources with the Beijing Municipal Statistics Bureau said on Wednesday
that October arrivals were 13.6 percent higher than the same period a
year earlier.
During the January-October period, foreign nationals made 3.23 million
visits to Beijing, up 14.2 percent. Compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao
and Taiwan contributed 449,000 visits, up 3.1 percent.
The combined figure was a 12.7-percent increase over the same period in
2006, a growth rate of 5.5 percentage points.
The United States was the city's number one source of overseas tourists
with 521,000 arrivals, up 21.7 percent, in the first 10 months. Japan
was second with 488,000 visits, up 20.1 percent, followed by the ROK at
383,000, an increase of 6.8 percent.
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China to be Asia's 2nd biggest tourist destination in 2006
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3.4 mln
Passenger to Travel by Air in May Day Holiday
Xinhua, April 20, 2007 -
China's airlines are
expected to carry a total of 3.4 million passengers during the
upcoming weeklong May Day holiday, up 12 percent year on year, the
General Administration of Civil Aviation (CAAC) forecast on
Thursday. The priority is safe flights all
over the country, said administration sources.
Maintenance of aircraft and other equipment has
been reinforced. Overtime work is
prohibited for flight crews and air traffic control departments are
required to closely monitor weather changes and provide accurate
forecasts.
The
administration also vowed to crack down on illegal activities to
ensure the safety of passengers.
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100m
Passengers Travel by Train During Holiday
March 1, 2007 -
China's railways
transported around 100 million passengers during the 25-day Spring
Festival travel rush, Wang Yongping, spokesman of the Ministry of
Railways announced here at a press conference Wednesday.
By 6:00 p.m. Tuesday, the
travel flow by railway has reached 93.4 million, 2.56 million more
than the same period of last year. With an estimated 4.81 million
added Wednesday, the figure will press 100 million, according to
Wang.
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Shanghai's Pudong Airport Has Most Passengers from Abroad
Xinhua, Jan. 9, 2007 -
Pudong International
Airport in Shanghai, China's leading metropolis, handled 17.15
million passengers from overseas last year, up 9.4 percent
year-on-year and besting other Chinese airports.
According to the Pudong Entry and Exit Frontier
Inspection Station, the figure included a record 9 million foreign
passengers, up 8 percent year-on-year. Beijing's Capital National Airport handled 12.6 million overseas
passengers, and Baiyun Airport in Guangzhou ranked third among
mainland airports. Figures for Hong Kong were not available at press
time. (Click
for full report)
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Last day of
week-long Chinese New Year holiday sees record number of travellers
People's Daily, Feb. 25, 2007 A record 56.53 million people were
expected to travel around the country on Saturday, the last day of
the week-long holiday of the Chinese Spring Festival. The
Ministry of Communications
estimated the figure will be 7.5 million persons more than that on
Friday. (Click
for full report)
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20 mln
Travel by Air in Spring Festival
Xinhua News Agency March 15, 2007 -
China's airlines carried 20
million passengers during this year's 40-day Spring Festival, up 13
percent year on year, said sources with the Civil Aviation
Administration of China on Wednesday.The number of people traveling
by air rose 21 percent to 3.71 million during the week-long Spring
Festival holiday that ran from Feb. 18 to Feb. 24.On Feb. 22, the
fifth day of the Lunar New Year, 519,000 people traveled by air. The
figure soared to 620,000 on Feb. 24, the last day of the statutory
holiday.The 40-day Spring Festival travel peak began on Feb. 3, 15
days before the Lunar New Year's Day, and ended on March 14.
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Foreign
Tourists in Beijing Spend $4 bln in 2006
Xinhua News, Jan. 26, 2007 - Foreign
tourists in Beijing spent a record US$1,033 each last year,
involving a total of US$4 billion, local authorities said on
Thursday. The Chinese capital received 3.9
million foreign tourists last year, 7.5 percent more than last year,
who spent a total of four billion dollars, according to Fang Zehua,
a spokesman of the municipal tourism administration.
"The boom can be attributed to our promotion of
Beijing in major source countries," he said.
Tourists from Japan, the United States and the
Republic of Korea accounted for about 40 percent of the total
number.
Overseas
arrivals from Russia, Sweden and Australia also saw a rapid
increase, Fang said.Some 132 million Chinese visitors from other
parts of the country came to the capital and spent 148.3 billion
yuan (US$19.1 billion), 14 percent higher than in 2005, he added.
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China Received
124 Mln Inbound Travelers in 2006
Xinhua News, Jan.
14, 2007 - China received 124 million inbound
travelers in 2006, ranking fourth in the world, according to statistics
released by China National Tourism Administration (CNTA).
The figures include arrivals from Hong Kong, Macao
and Taiwan. According to the CNTA, China
reaped US$33.5 billion in tourism income last year, ranking sixth in the
world. Inbound tourism has become China's
biggest service trade area. The number of travelers from Japan, the
Republic of Korea and Southeast Asian nations grew steadily last year,
and the growth of new markets such as Europe, North America and India
has accelerated. The development of inbound
tourism boosted construction of infrastructure, hotels, restaurants and
shops.
Officials from CNTA said inbound tourism will continue to
increase in the next few years. The
Beijing Olympic Games in 2008 and the
Shanghai World Expo in 2010 will attract more travelers from all over
the world.
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Overseas
Tourist Arrivals Rises 2.86% in First 9 Months
Xinhua News, Nov.
14, 2006 -
China received 92.2 million overseas tourists in the
first nine months of the year, up 2.86 percent on the same period in
2005, the China National Tourism Administration said on Monday. The
country's revenue from overseas tourists totaled US$23.03 billion
between January and September, representing a growth of 5.63
percent. Of the total 16.1 million were foreign nationals and the
rest from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. Arrivals of overseas tourists
totaled 10.4 million in September, a rise of 5.56 percent. As in
September, South Korea was the largest source of foreign tourists
for China, with 334,169 arrivals. It was followed by Japan, Russia
and the US. China is now ranked fourth in the world in terms of
overseas tourist arrivals. The World Tourism Organization has
predicted that China will become the No. 1 tourist destination and
the fourth largest source of tourists by 2020.
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WTTC: China's tourism growth exceeds GDP
growth
TravelVedio.TV, July 13, 2006 - A recently released World
Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
report on China revealed that between 1975 to 2000 tourism had an
annual growth rate of 4.6 percent exceeding the country's gross
domestic product (GDP) growth rate of 3.5 percent. (Click
for full report).
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China tourism
predicted to be 2nd largest
China Daily MayThe
World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) predicted in Beijing on Monday that over
the next decade China will become the second largest travel and tourism industry
in the world, after the United States.
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Week-long Labour Day holiday in China boosts tourism earnings
Newkerala.com India, May 9, 2006 - Beijing: China's week-long "Golden
Week"
holiday to mark the International Labour Day has
helped
tourism sites and companies rake in over USD 2.5
billion, official figures showed. (Click
for full report)
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3 Mln People
to Travel by Air During National Day Holiday
Xinhua News, Sep.
28, 2006 - The General Administration of
Civil Aviation of China (CAAC) forecast that 3.06 million people
will travel by air during the upcoming National Day holiday, an
increase of 13.5 percent from a year ago.CAAC predicts the peak
times for air travel will be on September 29 and 30.
Airlines have been urged to take preventative
measures to deal with passengers stranded due to postponement of
flights during the "Golden Week" holiday from October 1 to 7.
China now has three "Golden
Week" holidays -- Spring Festival, International Labor Day, and
National Day.The holiday scheme, initiated by the Chinese government
in 1999, is aimed at boosting domestic demand, stimulating
consumption and restructuring the economy.
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Millions Travel on 1st
Day of Golden Week Holidays
Xinhua News, May 2,
2006 - At least 116 main tourist attractions across China received 28.9 million
visitors the first day of the golden week holidays starting from May 1, up 17
percent over the same period of last year. The tourism income generated from the
day increased by 25 percent compared with last year, according to Beijing News Daily. (Click
for full report)
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Nearly 10,000 ROK People
Tour China Each Day
Xinhua News, Nov.
9, 2005 - Nearly 10,000 people from the Republic of
Korea (ROK) tour China each day, which will make the total number of ROK
tourists hit 3.5 million this year, ROK ambassador to China Kim Ha Joong said
Tuesday. (Click
for full report)
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China is the world's largest
domestic tourist market
Dominican Today, Oct. 14, 2005 - Beijing.– The booming tourism industry
has made China the biggest domestic tourist market in the world, and the largest
source of tourists in Asia, establishing its position as a big tourism country
in the world, according to Shao Qiwei, director-general of the State
Administration of Tourism. (Click
for full story)
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China 2nd largest destination
for Japanese tourists
Chinaview.cn June 29, 2005 -- China has
annually received an average of 2 million Japanese tourists since 2000,
maintaining a two-digit growth rate, according to the National Tourism
Administration. (full
coverage)
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Tourism Boom in China
Raises Concern
OhmyNews, Korea
- China has just beaten
tourism giant Italy and is ranked fourth in the number of visitors. According to
statistics from the World Tourism Organization (WTO)'s 2004 report (PDF), 41.8
million people visited China last year, while Italy had 37.1 million visitors. (full
report)
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China Makes Great
Breakthrough in Tourism
Xinhua News Jan. 21, 2005
- The inbound tourists to the Chinese
mainland reached 109.04 million in 2004, breaking the 100 million mark for the
first time. This earned the foreign exchange revenue up to US$25.74 billion,
according to statistics released by the National Bureau of Statistics and the
China National Tourism Administration on Thursday. The inbound tourists
mainly came from
the 16 countries of Japan, the Republic of Korea, Russia, the United States, the
Philippines, Malaysia, Mongolia, Singapore, United Kingdom, Thailand, Australia,
Canada, Germany, Indonesia, India and France. The number of visitor arrivals
from these countries saw remarkable growth in 2004 over the previous year. The
outbound tourists from the Chinese mainland amounted to 28.85 million in 2004.
Some 5.87 million Chinese mainland people traveled abroad for business purpose,
up 8.55 percent compared with last year. More than 12.97 million mainlanders
went abroad for private reasons, representing an increase of 55.15 percent over
a year earlier. Figures show that domestic tourism revenue totaled 471.1 billion yuan (US$58 billion) in the past year.
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Foreign Tourists to China Jump by
20%
Xinhua News Agency Jan.
2, 2005 - China on Saturday
reported sharp increases in the number of foreign tourists and tourism dollars
in the first 11 months in 2004, jumping by around 20 percent and 50 percent
year-on-year, respectively. "The numbers of inbound tourists and foreign
tourists in the
January-November period both exceeded
the total numbers for the whole year in 2002," an official with the National
Tourism Administration said. China netted US$23.5 billion in tourist revenue in
the first 11 months, representing an increase of 49.61 percent compared with the
corresponding time in 2003, he said. The country received inbound tourists of
99.14 million in the 11 months, 19.6 percent more than the same time in the
previous year.
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