Chinese public holiday in May stages a surprising comeback

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On 10th April 2019
china outbound tourism, China outbound tourism research, chinese market, cotri, COTRI China, COTRI Weekly, golden week, Labour Day, tourism

Dear Readers, In the first decade of the 21st century, Chinese nationals enjoyed three “Golden Weeks” – semi-annual work-free national holidays lasting 7 to 8 days. These took place during Chinese New Year, in the first week of May on International Labour Day, and the first week of October to celebrate the anniversary of the […]

COTRI CTW Chinese Tourist Welcome Award 2019

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On 6th March 2019
China outbound tourism research, Chine Outbound market report, Chinese outbound tourism data, Chinese Tourist Welcome Award, COTRI Market Report, COTRI Weekly, CTW Awards

Dear readers, The time has come for the 2019 edition of the CTW Chinese Tourist Welcome Award. Companies and organisations are invited to apply with their Best Practice examples to win one of the CTW Awards. The CTW Award 2019 is proud to be a partner again with Ctrip, the largest Chinese Online Travel Agency. It has been […]

New CTT China Tourism Training – Extended Preview video

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On 5th March 2019
China outbound tourism research, China Tourism Training Video, chinese market, COTRI Analytics, COTRI China, COTRI Training

COTRI is proudly announcing the new CTT China Tourism Training – Extended Preview video is now available on youtube.com and on the COTRI website. It shows all the different content provided and explains how the training programme works. The first of five CTT, CTT Hospitality for Hotels and Restaurants will go in March 2019. Four […]

Autumn 2018 issue of the COTRI Market Report examines latest trends and new developments in Chinese outbound tourism

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On 24th October 2018
China outbound tourism research, Chine Outbound market report, Chinese outbound tourism data, COTRI Market Report, COTRI Weekly

The Autumn 2018 edition of the COTRI Market Report, released October 23rd, 2018, comes amidst a year of ongoing healthy growth for the Chinese outbound tourism market. With the first half of the year having seen 80 million border crossings made around the world by Chinese passport holders, COTRI’s previously increased annual forecast for 2018 still […]

Ctrip data reveals insights into Chinese outbound travel during the 2018 National Day Holiday Golden Week

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On 10th October 2018
china outbound, China outbound tourism research, chinese outbound tourism, Chinese outbound travel, cotri, COTRI Weekly, ctrip, golden week, Golden Week 2018, national day holiday

According to data recently published by Ctrip [Chinese], the recent national holiday period (Oct. 1 – Oct. 7) saw Thailand emerge as the most popular Golden Week outbound destination for Chinese travellers. In spite of the negative press that the south-east Asian country has received in recent months following a fatal boating disaster in Phuket and […]

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 […]

New Ctrip and COTRI study: 2017 trends in Chinese customised travel to Europe

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On 25th April 2018
China market, China outbound tourism research, conference, COTRI Weekly

COTRI and leading Chinese OTA Ctrip’s joint “Customised Travels of Chinese Visitors to Europe” report was launched last Monday, April 16th at the first Business Summit of Ctrip Customised Travel. Held in Budapest, Hungary, the event saw presentations given by both Ctrip Customised Travel CEO Kane Xu and COTRI Director Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Georg Arlt. The report provides […]