Switzerland Tourism said that Swiss hotels had clocked up a total of 1.060 million nights from Chinese tourists in the first eight months of this year, up 33.9% y-o-y.
The Malaysian government has decided to implement a visa-free policy for groups of two or more Chinese visitors to attract more Chinese tourists.
Softbank has set up an inbound tourism OTA that will be launched on Alitrip, Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba’s travel platform, on November 11.
TravelDaily China led a delegation of Ctrip, Alitrip, Yiqifei and JointWisdom to spak at the ITB Asia conference.
Great Britain’s efforts to attract more Chinese visitors paid off with visitor numbers between April and June this year up 33% y-o-y, according to official statistics.
Overseas island travel specialists Qulv announced it received US$20 million in its A Series financing round from Yuantai Investment Partners
Shanghai Disney expects 10 million admissions at its opening, 95% of from mainland China and over 70% of visitors from the Yangtze River Delta region.
A total of 526 million trips were made nationally in China over the National Day holidays and RMB421.3 billion was spent during the period, up 10.7% and 17.9%.
