Chinese tourists spent a quarter of a trillion dollars abroad, almost twice as much as US

[haidian]

Chinese tourists spent a quarter of a trillion dollars abroad
by Agne Blazyte,
Sep 26, 2018

The robust growth in international tourism is continuing, according to the United Nations World Tourism Organization. 2017 witnessed the highest increase in the total global travel spending in the past eight years – around 1.34 trillion U.S. dollars. China has kept its leading position in the global tourism market since 2012 with outbound tourists spending almost 258 billion U.S. dollars last year, around 20 percent of the world’s total spending on tourism.

Due to a combination of factors such as the emergence of a newly rich Chinese middle class, easing travel restrictions by the Chinese authorities, simplified destination visa policies, and increasing numbers of direct flight connections from China, Chinese citizens became the largest contributors to the global outbound tourism market and the main source of tourism cash across the world. While Chinese tourists are still famous for spending thousands on high-end luxury foreign brands, new spending behavior trends are emerging, particularly among more experienced Chinese travelers. In 2017, Chinese travelers turned more towards enjoying niche sectors like whisky tasting, aurora chasing, outdoor activities and other high-quality and less mass-oriented products and experiences.

https://www.statista.com/chart/15588/international-tourism-expenditure-in-2017/

 

[haidian]

China and Pakistan are neighbors, if the security can be improved, Chinese tourists will spend a whole lot of money in Pakistan, Xinjiang, which is next to Pakistan, is already one of China's hottest tour destination and over 30% of Xinjiang's GDP is from tourism now.

 

[Globenim]

They way the UNWTO tracks their numbers isn't very transparent and intuitive for the "commoner" who doesn't operate in their bureaucratic cloud. I think they are counting anyone living off the peninsula but spending a night in Hong Kong as a tourist and they operate on recipes from the place they are issued from regardless of your nationality, so you get a lot on and off the record.

 

[haidian]

They way the UNWTO tracks their numbers isn't very transparent and intuitive for the "commoner" who doesn't operate in their bureaucratic cloud. I think they are counting anyone living off the peninsula but spending a night in Hong Kong as a tourist and they operate on recipes from the place they are issued from regardless of your nationality, so you get a lot on and off the record.

Hong Kong is counted separately from China, and here it is talking money spent, not number of travelers.

 

[Globenim]

Hong Kong is counted separately from China,

That's the problem. They are mixing up domestic travel with cross border tourism. You count as a Chinese tourist when you stay in a Hong Kong for a night. Same the other way. That will inevitably inflate the numbers on both sides.

and here it is talking money spent, not number of travelers.

Same issue. When you start adding people that shouldn't, the numbers will end up off.

 

[haidian]

That's the problem. They are mixing up domestic travel with cross border tourism. You count as a Chinese tourist when you stay in a Hong Kong for a night. Same the other way. That will inevitably inflate the numbers on both sides.

Same issue. When you start adding people that shouldn't, the numbers will end up off.

However you count, thats a small percentage, we dont count Hong Kong in , otherwise the number will be much bigger.

When your number is twice as much as the second,, errors in calculating doesnt mean much.