100m ‘outbound’ trips so far this year
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CHINESE mainland travelers have taken 100 million “outbound” trips this year, officials said, with most visiting Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.
Just under 4 percent of the 100 million trips counted up to the end of November were to Europe, China’s state tourism administration said, while 90 percent were within Asia.
It said that nearly 71 percent of “outbound” trips this year were to Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. The total number of people traveling abroad was not given.
Six countries — South Korea, Thailand, Japan, the United States, Vietnam and Singapore — have seen more than one million trips by mainlanders so far this year, the administration said.
China’s economy has boomed over the past decade, expanding the ranks of its middle-class who are hungry for foreign travel.
Chinese travelers spent some US$102 billion overseas in 2012 — making them the world’s biggest spenders, the UN World Tourism Organization has said.
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