COTRI publishes Chinese outbound tourist arrival data for H1 2018

Having provided its own statistics related to Chinese outbound border crossings since 2015, COTRI China Outbound Tourism Research Institute has released its final data for H1 2018.

The first six months of 2018 saw 80 million worldwide border crossings made by Chinese passport holders, representing a year-on-year growth rate of 16.4%. This strong upturn is built upon a successful Q2 period, during which Chinese nationals made 42 million border crossings around the world between April and June, 2018 – a 15.9% increase against 2017’s equivalent figure.

Among these figures, the Greater China region (Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR, Taiwan) accounted for 17.8 million of Q2 2018’s global Chinese arrivals (corresponding to 42.4% of the total) and 36.7 million for the whole H1 2018 period (45.9% of total) […]

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