Chinese Tourists Go Abroad

The USA Today reports:

The Chinese will take 34.1 million trips abroad this year, the United Nations World Tourism Organization estimates. That's a 10% increase over 2005. By 2020, the number of foreign jaunts, mostly tourist travel, will hit 100 million, the organization predicts. By then, only Germans, the Japanese and Americans will travel abroad more.

Although about 90% of their trips are to Asian destinations, Chinese travelers tour the globe. Their top stop outside Asia: Europe, which will host nearly 1.4 million Chinese tourists this year, the economic research firm Global Insight estimates. North America is next, with about 376,000. Global Insight predicts a 40% to 50% increase in Chinese trips outside Asia by 2010.

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