Chinese outbound tourism next stop: To the far side of the moon

According to new data issued by UNWTO, 2018 saw 1.4 billion international trips taking place. Following 1.322 billion in 2017, that would be an increase of 78 million trips, out of which 17 million trips, or more than 20% of the total, would be the result of Mainland Chinese crossing a border. As the “W” in the name of the organisation implies, all these trips are taking part in the “World”, so any space travel, for instance to the far side of the moon, would not be counted at the moment.

Your humble author prided himself in the past of the insight that home sapiens had been pushed from his position in the centre of the university in several steps by Messiers Copernicus and Darwin and more recently by the discoveries of exoplanets and the spectre of AI and the singularity, was his own […]

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