Chinese travel gathers pace

10-May-2005

Almost 29m Chinese travelled abroad in 2004 and the boom in travel is gathering momentum as the Approved Destination Status (ADS) scheme opens up new destinations to tourists. Sandra Newman reports on the latest trends in Chinese outbound travel

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The World Tourism Organization (WTO) predicts that by 2010 China will be the fourth-largest source of overseas travellers after Germany, Japan and the US, with the rapid growth of the

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