97m Chinese travelled overseas in 2013
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A total of 97 million Chinese citizens travelled abroad in 2013, it has been revealed.
According to data from the China National Tourism Administration (CNTA), reported by Xinhua, the outbound figure marks a 17% year-on-year increase compared to the 83m Chinese that travelled overseas in 2012.
This means that China provided the world’s destinations with 14m extra international tourists last year – equivalent to the entire populations of Sweden and New Zealand combined.
And the rate of growth is such that China is now expected to far exceed 100m annual outbound tourists in 2014 – a full year ahead of the UNWTO’s forecast, which predicted China would reach the landmark total in 2015.
Meanwhile, China’s domestic tourism sector also expanded last year. The country hosted 3.2 billion domestic travellers in 2013, 10%, or 300m trips, more than in 2012. This means that, on average, every single Chinese citizen made approximately 2.4 domestic trips in 2013.
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