It is interesting to note that Chinese mainland visitors are now a prime target for Australia and its tourism industry (as reported at eTurboNews today)...
Tourism Australia expects China to be the third-largest source of visitors to Australia within three years and is striving to attract more Chinese mainland visitors to meet that expectation...
The Chinese mainland is projected to become the fourth-largest source of international visitors to Australia by the end of this year and the third-largest within three years...
So far, the nation is ranked fifth after New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Japan, Richard Beere, executive general manager of the international (eastern hemisphere) division of Tourism Australia, told China Business Weekly. In view of the strong Chinese economy and growing two-way exchanges, Beere said that he is highly confident about the Chinese tourism market...
At the World Expo in Shanghai next year, Tourism Australia has planned promotional events to promote the down-under destination...
A total of 356,400 Chinese mainland residents visited Australia last year, which was flat compared with 2007, and 276,500 traveled to the country in the first nine months of this year, representing year-over-year growth of 1 percent. In September alone, visitors from the Chinese mainland totaled 22,900, an increase of 19 percent compared with the same month a year earlier...
This is good news for tourism in Australia, where the industry, and many others, are still recovering from the tragic fires earlier this year...
To read this report in full, go to http://www.eturbonews.com/13032/chinese-mainland-visitors-prime-target-australia
Barticus.
Tourism Australia expects China to be the third-largest source of visitors to Australia within three years and is striving to attract more Chinese mainland visitors to meet that expectation...
The Chinese mainland is projected to become the fourth-largest source of international visitors to Australia by the end of this year and the third-largest within three years...
So far, the nation is ranked fifth after New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Japan, Richard Beere, executive general manager of the international (eastern hemisphere) division of Tourism Australia, told China Business Weekly. In view of the strong Chinese economy and growing two-way exchanges, Beere said that he is highly confident about the Chinese tourism market...
At the World Expo in Shanghai next year, Tourism Australia has planned promotional events to promote the down-under destination...
A total of 356,400 Chinese mainland residents visited Australia last year, which was flat compared with 2007, and 276,500 traveled to the country in the first nine months of this year, representing year-over-year growth of 1 percent. In September alone, visitors from the Chinese mainland totaled 22,900, an increase of 19 percent compared with the same month a year earlier...
This is good news for tourism in Australia, where the industry, and many others, are still recovering from the tragic fires earlier this year...
To read this report in full, go to http://www.eturbonews.com/13032/chinese-mainland-visitors-prime-target-australia
Barticus.
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