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Today a short news I have read on china view about the spendings of Chinese outbound Tourists. Besides the regional differences due to Nielson, I think it is not surprising, that the Chinese Tourist spends 2,597 to 3,506 U.S. dollars. I am asking myself if this amount has really increased?
After the new ADS (Approved Destination Status) agreement between China and the United States of America finally follows the first group of tourists.
The Japanese government plans to achieve 10 million tourist in 2010 and strengthen their tourism industry as a strategic industry. Focusing on this goal with the main target market in Asia, their have been cooperation’s with China, like the development of the air transport.
In the year 2006, according to official statistics, approximately 34 million Chinese tourists went abroad. This made China the largest outbound travel market in whole Asia. This year’s tourists are still increasing. In the first half of 2007 the outbound travel market has increased by 14.04%.
The China National Tourism Administration (CNTA) approved six more countries as destinations for Chinese tourists from October 15th 2007.
Right after the SARS epidemic in 2003 started so called “zero-fee” package tours because of the severe drop of travellers. Zero-fee tours are cheaper than the basic costs of transportation, accommodation and attraction tickets. In order to regain the losses, tour guides get high provisions from different shops.
In China the tour operators have different authorisations to handle tourists. Therefore they are separated in three classes of tour operators:
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The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) has chosen Brian Deeson to be the new Chairman of the association. Brian Deeson is living and working in Shanghai. He thinks that the most challenging problems for the travel industry are the human resource shortages and of course the global warming.
Close to the next event from China Outbound Travel & Tourism Market (COTTM) in May they announced a new partnership with the Africa Travel Association (ATA). The goal is to enhance relationships and build a stronger network between the Chinese travel industry and African tourism destinations (There are more than 26 African nations with ADS status).
I added today a historical statistic from 1991 till 2002 about the chinese outbound tourists in the fact section. Three year ago it was very difficult to gather this data from the different available sources.
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