China Economic Review
Charting China’s changing economic terrain · Since 1990
Chinese tourism overseas
March 11, 2010
Simple facts about Chinese travel overseas.
•About 50 million Chinese now travel overseas a year and 100 million will in 2020.
•China will rank as the No. 4 source of tourists to the world after Germany, Japan and the US by 2020.
•Chinese visiting the US tend to start with Hawaii or California; then go to New York or Las Vegas; before coming to Florida.
•Chinese visitors to the US now spend more on average than any other international visitor: about $6,000 for a three-week trip.
Sun Sentinel.com states the sources for these figures is the World Tourism Organization, US Commerce Dept. and the US Travel Association.