Foreign Media: Chinese tourists abroad last year | $ 215 billion surge in 53%| Chinese tourists abroad _ news

Reference news network March 23, British media reports said, although China's economic growth slowed down, but for travel and tourism boom fuelled by Chinese consumers last year. According to the figures released by world travel and Tourism Council on 22nd, 2015, Chinese tourists outside the Chinese mainland spent 215 billion dollars, higher than US $ 140 billion in 2014 were 53%.

According to the United Kingdom by the financial times website reported on March 21, although China's outbound tourism has been rising strongly in recent years, but those figures represent a sharp acceleration. World travel and Tourism Council, Chairman and CEO of daiwei·sikaoxier says: "(China), outbound travel is growing like crazy to. Last year in the stock market and currency exchange rates there have been some significant oscillations, but it did not slow the growth of travel and tourism. Once people began to travel, they don't want to give up. ”

However, China's outbound tourism boom to expand the country's trade deficit in tourism. According to statistics from the United Nations World Tourism Organization, 2015, foreign tourists visiting China rose slightly to 56.9 million people, only 2.2% in two years. From the Group's provisional data show, these foreign visitors spent about $ 57.5 billion in China, from 2014 only 1.1%.

According to the world travel and Tourism Council's calculation, China's tourism and exports--revenues from foreign tourists – slightly higher than the figure of $ 61 billion. However, this figure is equivalent to only 2.6% per cent of China's total export earnings, compared with this ratio of 6.1% on a global scale.

According to the world travel and Tourism Council said, take into account factors of domestic tourism, tourism in 2015 is only 7.9% per cent of China's gross domestic product, below the 9.8% of global proportions. The Council said last year China's tourism industry directly and indirectly support the 65 million jobs, accounting for 8.4% of the total number of jobs, below the 9.5% of global proportions.

However, the world travel and Tourism Council believes, scale the world's second, after the United States annually in the next 10 years will be China's tourism expansion 7%, over 4% of the global growth rate in 2024 years ago and beyond the United States.

Sikaoxier suggested that, in order to attract more foreign tourists, China needs to follow introduction of United States visa-free plan, enabling electronic visa-processing system, and starting a national marketing Fund, rather than letting the provinces engaged in marketing matters.

However, the number and expenditures of outbound tourists in China surge does not lead to a happy outcome. World travel and Tourism Council reported that in 2015, Macau, Korea and Hong Kong's tourist income, "serious decline", respectively, and 32% and 8.4%, which are heavily dependent on the tourism industry in the Chinese mainland tourists. Taiwan Tourism situation is slightly better, the growth in real incomes barely 1.5%.

World travel and Tourism Council found that Japan is the only country in Northeast Asia region from last year's boom benefited tourism destinations, last year the number of international tourists visiting the country increased by 47%, international tourist spending in nominal dollar terms growth 37%.

Sikaoxier said that Chinese tourists are more and more toward the more distant destinations. (Compile/Cao Weiguo)

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外媒:中国游客去年境外消费2150亿美元 猛增53%|中国游客|境外消费_新闻资讯

　　参考消息网3月23日报道 英媒称，尽管中国经济增长放慢，但中国消费者去年为旅行和旅游的热潮推波助澜。据世界旅游理事会22日发表的数据，2015年中国游客在中国内地之外消费了2150亿美元，比2014年消费的1400亿美元高出53％。

　　据英国《金融时报》网站3月21日报道，尽管中国出境旅游近年一直在强劲上升，但这些数据代表的是一种急剧的加速。世界旅游理事会主席兼首席执行官戴维·斯考西尔说：“（中国）出境旅游正在如同疯狂了一样地增长。去年在股市和货币汇率方面出现了一些大幅振荡，但是这并没有减缓旅行和旅游的增长。一旦人们开始了旅行，他们就不愿意放弃。”

　　不过，中国出境旅游的狂潮扩大了该国在旅游业的贸易逆差。据联合国世界旅游组织统计，2015年访问中国的外国游客微幅增长至5690万人次，两年内仅增长2.2％。来自该组织的临时数据显示，这些外国游客在中国消费了大约575亿美元，仅比2014年增长1.1%。

　　根据世界旅游理事会的计算，中国的旅游出口额——即从外国游客身上获得的收入——稍高于这个数字，为610亿美元。不过，这个数字仅相当于中国出口收入总额的2.6%，相比之下在全球范围内这一比例为6.1％。

　　据世界旅游理事会称，把中国国内旅游的因素考虑在内，2015年旅游业占中国国内生产总值的比例仅为7.9％，低于全球范围9.8％的比例。该理事会称，去年中国旅游业直接和间接支持了6500万个就业机会，占就业机会总数的8.4％，低于全球范围9.5%的比例。

　　不过，世界旅游理事会相信，规模居世界第二、仅次于美国的中国旅游业在今后10年内将每年扩张7%，超过4%的全球增长率并在2024年前超越美国。

　　斯考西尔建议说，要想吸引更多外国游客，中国需要仿照推出美国签证免计划、启用电子签证处理系统以及启动一项全国性市场推广基金，而不是让各省自行从事市场推广事宜。

　　不过，中国出境游客人数和支出的飙升并没有带来皆大欢喜的结果。世界旅游理事会报告称，2015年澳门、韩国和香港的旅游收入出现“严重下降”，降幅分别为32％、10.2％和8.4％，这三地的旅游业都严重依赖于中国内地游客。台湾旅游业的情况稍稍好一些，其实际收入勉强实现了1.5%的增长。

　　世界旅游理事会发现，日本是东北亚地区唯一从去年的中国旅游热潮中获益的旅游目的地，去年到访该国的国际游客人数上升47%，国际游客以名义美元计算的消费额增长37%。

　　斯考西尔说，中国游客正在越来越多地走向更遥远的旅游目的地。（编译/曹卫国）

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