Leapfrogging into cashless tourism

  • Posted by Newsdesk
  • 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 […]
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FITs drive Chinese outbound traveller growth in 2017: China Outbound Pulse

  • Posted by Newsdesk
  • On 15th November 2017
  • chinese outbound tourism, Chinese traveller, FITs, ForwardKeys, Statistics
Free independent travellers (FITs) have been revealed as being responsible for almost all growth in Chinese outbound tourist numbers in 2017, according to the recently launched China Outbound Travel Pulse series. The Chinese outbound travel market is currently composed of approximately 40% fully-FIT travellers, 40% modular “semi-FIT” travellers (who choose to book small parts of […]
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