Chinese Tourism Booming
According to a Tourism Research Australia Report released Thursday, June 8, China is Australia's fastest growing inbound tourism market, currently ranked fourth behind New Zealand, Britain and the United States.
Whilst, numerically, the Chinese ranked fourth, in terms of dollars spent and average days stayed Chinese visitors ranked number one
In 2010, Chinese visitors rose 22 percent from the previous year to 454,000 and spent a whopping $3.3 billion.
With the Chinese economy growing at a rate of up to 10% per annum a whole new, cashed up, middle class has emerged that is young, adventurous and relatively close by.
Combined with the increasing economic and cultural links between the two countries Australia will obviously become a preferred holiday option and travel here will grow dramatically in the foreseeable future.
To promote this Tourism Australia has said it is planning to dramatically increase its marketing activity in China and expects to open 11 new offices on the mainland by 2014.
Whilst Chinese tourism will bring considerable additional revenue to Australia it is also extremely important in terms of increasing positive diplomatic relations between the two countries.
And, just as importantly, it exposes the up and coming future leaders of China to a hopefully a positive role model in terms of democratic freedoms and human rights.
This will undoubtedly assist China's "peaceful rising" in it becoming a superpower on the world stage.
So it's time to learn to say hello in Chinese "Ni Hao" China!
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