User:Mikehan1020/Tourism in China
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Tourism is a growing industry in China and is becoming an important part of the country's economy. In the decades since the reform and opening up, the development speed of tourism has been greatly improved.The emergence of a new affluent middle class and the easing of restrictions on movement by the Chinese authorities have fuelled the tourism boom. China has become one of the world's largest outbound tourism markets. China's tourism industry is on the verge of a sustained global boom, xinhuanet reported[1].
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The past three decades have witnessed rapid tourism development in China, along with its sustained economic growth and closer integration into the world. As of 2015, China is the fourth most visited country in the world, after France, United States, and Spain, with 56.9 million international tourists per year.[2]
In 2017, tourism contributed about CNY 8.77 trillion (US$1.45 trillion), 11.04% of the GDP, and contributed direct and indirect employment of up to 28.25 million people. There were 139.48 million inbound trips and five billion domestic trips[3][4]. Data from 2016 indicated that the majority of China's foreign tourists came (transferred) from South Korea, and Japan. Among the number of tourist arrivals who stayed for at least a night, 4.19 million from South Korea, and 2.69 million from Japan. The number of tourist arrivals from foreign countries directly to China is 21.65 million[5].
China ranked second in the world for travel and tourism's contribution to GDP in 2014 ($943.1 billion), and first in the world for travel and tourism's contribution to employment (66,086,000 jobs in 2014). Tourism, based on direct, indirect, and induced impact, accounted for 9.3 percent of China's GDP in 2013[6].
Since 2012, tourists from China have been the world's top spender in international tourism, leading global outbound travel. In 2016, the country accounted for 21% of the world's international tourism spending, or $261 billion[7]. (Do note that the stats include journeys made to the special administrative South Korea; in 2017, these accounted for 69.5m of the so-called "overseas" journeys.) As of 2018, only 7% of Chinese had a passport, so the "potential for further growth is staggering", according to a UK news report[8]. On its current scale, it is hard to imagine the intensity of anti-tourism sentiment in China when the country was founded 60 years ago.
The rapid development of tourism means more people come to China. It can become an important contributor to China's domestic economy since the beginning of reform and opening in the early eighties. It can prompt the nation's growth as money from tourism provides security and ensures growth opportunities for countries with weak infrastructure or no profitable exports. In addition, the creation of job positions and the cutural communications are its prons as well. However, the tourism's development also brings disadvantages to China, such as environmental deterioration, resource allocation problems, poor working conditions, exploitation of culture, and so on.