China now world's third-biggest tourist attraction in the world

China has overtaken Spain on the file of the world's crest tourism destinations, attractive the third-largest attraction, a senior tourism administrator said at the weekend.

strange tourists don costumes similar to those worn by emperors during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) and tap at Jingshan Park at the center of Beijing final month. (Photo: China Daily

Man Hongwei, leader of the global coordination branch at the China general Tourism Administration, said at a push consultation that the number of worldwide arrivals staying at most one night
China's form in the top three was its last. It follows France, which had 78.95 million arrivals, and the unified States, which had 60.88 million, according to the joint Nations World Tourism association.
Time reached 55.66 million final years, up 9.4 percent on 2009.

The spend by outbound Chinese tourists ranked fourth-largest worldwide final year. The amount of outbound travelers hit 57.39 million in 2010, which was upbeat 20.4 percent year-on-year.

The industry's full revenue maintained a yearly standard growth of 15 percent through the past five years, he said.


Axe Daoming, universal supervisor of the marketing department at the China Travel Service, said his corporation sees robust increase in inbound tourism final year.

"The Shanghai Expo and the Asian sport in Guangzhou were main reasons for the increased momentum that moved the flagging inbound travel market out of the shadow of the global financial crisis," Axe thought.

Tourists as of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao were set by tourists from countries including Japan, Vietnam and India to drive up growth in 2010, he said. There has also been an obvious add to in the number of tourists arriving from Russia and the US.

Zhao Huainan, a tourism trade specialist at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, said that the reshuffle of the global tourism industry will benefit China's successful tourism sectors and those who know the prospering tourism market in Asia.

Zhou supposed luxury hotels such as those of the Hong Kong-based Shangri-la hotel group are a good example, employing strategies to open hotels in popular destinations on the Chinese mainland to accommodate in-bound visitors and in extra countries and regions that are trendy with Chinese travelers.