1st Asian Resilience Summit in Kathmandu/Nepal includes COTRI director Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Georg Arlt as panellist

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On 29th April 2019
Asian Resilience Summit, chinese outbound tourism, cotri, COTRI China, Kathmandu, Nepal, tourism

As part of the activities of the Global Travel and Tourism Resilience Council (GTTRC), the first Asian Resilience Summit will be held in Kathmandu, Nepal at the end of May 2019. COTRI’s director Prof. Dr. Arlt has been invited by the organisers to provide some insights, especially with regard to the Chinese outbound market, during […]

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 ANALYTICS RADAR included in the latest UNWTO Affiliate Members Newsletter

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On 4th March 2019
chinese market, Chinese Tourism, COTRI Analytics, COTRI Analytics Radar, COTRI China, COTRI statistics, COTRI Weekly, tourism, UNWTO, UNWTO Newsletter

COTRI’s recently introduced free powerful tool to analyse the Chinese outbound tourism, COTRI ANALYTICS RADAR, has been included with a full-page article in the latest UNWTO Affiliate Members Newsletter (vol. 6, March 2019). The first COTRI ANALYTICS RADAR provides insights into the quarterly dynamic changes of the 60 most important destinations for the Chinese outbound […]

A post from the Director: Xenia in 2019

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On 10th January 2019
China's outbound tourism grows, chinese market, chinese outbound tourism, cotri, FIT, forecast, Greek, legend, tourism

Taken from Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Georg Arlt’s LinkedIn blog. In the old times in Greece, Xenia or hospitality was held in such high esteem that not only Hestia, goddess of the hearth, but Zeus himself was responsible to take care of it. As some of you may recall, it was in Eumeneia in Phyrgia (in […]

Chinese tourists remain the top spenders, but retail has to add activities and emotions to the physical shopping experience

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On 5th December 2018
china outbound, china outbound tourism, Chinese Travel Consumption Trends, COTRI Weekly, shopping outlets, Shopping Tourism, Singles' Day, tourism

The success of the “Singles’ Day” on Nov. 11th, 2018, when Alibaba, the biggest online shopping company, collected orders for more than 30 billion USD within 24 hours and their closest rival, JD, reported another 23 billion USD in sales showed the unwavering appetite of Chinese consumers for online shopping. Chinese shopping malls are suffering […]

CTT China Tourism Training programme launch: As Chinese travellers seek out more novel destinations, the industry service providers need to match them

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On 6th September 2018
China Tourism Training, chinese, Chinese outbound travel, COTRI Weekly, ctrip, tourism, Traveling

The ‘Ctrip Customized Travels of Chinese Visitors to Europe’ report published earlier this year showed clearly that the trendsetters in Chinese outbound travel are looking to get off of the beaten track in order to get away from the crowds and enjoy more culture-focused ‘experience’-based travel activities. Such travel patterns – standing in contrast to the ‘overtourism’ suffered […]

COTRI publishes Chinese outbound tourist arrival data for H1 2018

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On 22nd August 2018
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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 […]

South Africa still to fully leverage its tourism resources for the Chinese market

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On 15th August 2018
china outbound tourism, cotri, COTRI Weekly, southafrica, southafricatourism, tourism

Continuing his travels, last week your humble editor had a chance to visit yet another UNESCO World Heritage Site, after having been to the Diaolou towers in China the week before. The “Cradle of Humankind”, an area close to Tshwane (ex-Pretoria) is the world’s richest hominin site, home to around 40% of the world’s human […]

A tale of two cities

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On 8th August 2018
china, china tourism, Diaolou, Jiangmen, tourism, UNESCO

Last week your humble editor had a chance to visit an UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Diaolou towers in Jiangmen, situated between Guangzhou and Macau. These building were erected by Overseas Chinese who had been successful in their adopted countries and wanted to document both their wealth and their newly acquired tastes by building houses […]

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 […]

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