Leapfrogging into cashless tourism

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On 31st May 2018
china outbound tourism, Chinese traveller, COTRI Weekly, payment method, tourism

The English word “cash” originates from the Chinese term for round copper coins, moving with traders physically all the way already from Han Dynasty China to the Roman Empire and linguistically from Tamil and Sanskrit to Old Italian to Old French to Middle English, reaching Germany in the form of “Käsch”. In the 21st century, Chinese […]

Latest China Outbound Travel Pulse video: Cruises

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On 30th May 2018
China Outbound Travel Pulse, Chinese food, Chinese Outbound Travellers, Chinese tourists food, pulse video

The tenth episode of the China Outbound Travel Pulse series is now available on the COTRI website, as well as on the series’ dedicated YouTube channel. With cruise tourism being a popular means of travel for Chinese tourists and hence a promising market business-wise, the video provided the latest insights into the industry’s current situations and its […]

The Ctrip-sponsored CTW Chinese Tourist Welcome Awards

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On 23rd May 2018
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Sponsored for the first time by leading Chinese OTA Ctrip, the 15th annual instalment of the CTW Chinese Tourist Welcome Awards took place at ITB China in Shanghai last week on Thursday, May 17th, 2018. The ceremony was hosted by both COTRI Director Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Georg Arlt and Victor Tseng, VP of Corporate Affairs and […]

COTRI Director Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Georg Arlt discusses overtourism on Germany’s ZDF

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On 22nd May 2018
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COTRI Director Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Georg Arlt made an appearance as part of a German-language documentary broadcast ‘Sommer, Sonne, Urlaubsglück’ (‘Summer, Sun, Vacation Happiness’), which was shown on Monday May, 21st on ZDF. As part of a wider piece on the topic of overtourism in various worldwide destinations, Prof. Arlt is interviewed in Hallstatt, Austria, […]

Presented for the first time in partnership with Ctrip, the 15th annual CTW Awards see a strong performance from European applicants

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On 17th May 2018
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Held for the first time in partnership with leading Chinese online travel agency Ctrip, the 2018 CTW Chinese Tourist Welcome Awards were presented at a ceremony at ITB China in Shanghai on May 17th, 2018. Having been organised annually by COTRI since 2004 and recognised as the leading awards programme in its field, the CTW […]

COTRI publishes the latest statistics from the Chinese outbound tourism market

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On 16th May 2018
China outbound tourism research, China statistics, COTRI Weekly, ITB China

With more statistics available, COTRI has updated its forecast. Here is a sneak preview for COTRI Weekly readers: With the final picture from 2017 becoming clear, COTRI has been able to verify the accuracy of its forecast of 145 million border crossings made by Mainland Chinese passport holders last year. This came to total 69.4 […]

COTRI Director Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Georg Arlt quoted by Germany’s Die Zeit

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On 14th May 2018
chinese outbound tourism, Chinese tourism trends, Chinese tourists to Germany, Die Zeit, red tourism

COTRI Director Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Georg Arlt has been cited numerous times in a German-language article posted on Zeit Online on May 12th, 2018. Entitled ‘Der Markt passt sich an’ (‘The market will adapt itself’), the piece examines the effects that the enormous growth in Chinese outbound travel since 2004 has had on the global […]

Overtourism in Upper Austria

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On 9th May 2018
austria, china outbound tourism, COTRI Weekly

Last week, your humble author had the opportunity to do an interview for ZDF (Second German Television) in Hallstatt, Austria. This idyllic little town in Austria’s Salzkammergut region is not only home to the oldest salt mine in the world with 7,000 years of history, but also gave the name to the Hallstatt period, the […]

China Training Day at CVS China Visitors Summit Europe – May 22, 2018 Intercontinental Düsseldorf

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On 3rd May 2018
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Tuesday May 22nd will see the hosting of the China Training Day at the heart of the 2018 CVS China Visitors Summit Europe in Düsseldorf, Germany. The event is a full day workshop designed to inform, educate, showcase and provide a dialogue between travel professionals with real hands on experience and those interested in growing […]

UNWTO releases its 2017 World’s Top Tourism Spenders Rankings

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On 3rd May 2018
chinese market, chinese outbound tourism, Chinese Tourism, COTRI Weekly

The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has published its tourism expenditure statistics for 2017, reporting that: “[virtually] all source markets reported higher tourism spending in 2017, reflecting continued strong demand for international tourism across all world regions.” China is shown to have further established itself at the global leader in tourism spending last year with a […]