Australia’s recorded its highest annual tourism earnings this year since the 2000 Sydney Olympics and Chinese contributed AUD$19 million in daily tourism revenue.
The number of Chinese visitors to France grew 50% y-o-y in the first quarter of 2015, and the France issued 56% more visas to Chinese nationals.
New Zealand received 313,000 Chinese visitors in the first six months of the year and it expects up to 350,000 arrivals by year end.
Japan received over 10 million foreign visitors in the first seven months this year, with the number of Chinese visitors nearly doubling to 2.17 million.
Chinese flying to the US from five Chinese cities – Xiamen, Fuzhou, Chengdu, Shenyang and Harbin – can enjoy visa-free transit at Toronto and Vancouver.
Korea’s tourism industry is emerging from the unexpected blow of MERS and anticipates a full recovery by August this year.
Spring Airlines will build a hotel at the Centrair Airport, Japan. The planned hotel will have 250-300 rooms and 14 floors and will open in 2016 or 2017.
French Minister Matthias Fekl said France hopes to attract 5 million Chinese visitors every year in the future, up from the current 2 million in the past 12 months.
