How Western Australia can go about learning from the mistakes of others when it comes to Chinese outbound tourism

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On 29th June 2018
COTRI Weekly, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Georg Arlt, tourism trap, Western Australia

Last week, I invited all COTRI Weekly readers to participate in the symposium on Chinese tourism organised by the Tourism Research Cluster (TRC) of Curtin University together with the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre in Perth, Western Australia and – not to forget – courtesy of the traditional owners of the land, the Whadjuk people of the Noongar […]

Chinese tourists bring more opportunities for Western Australia

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On 3rd December 2015
arlt, australia, china, tourism, Western Australia

China became the world’s largest source of tourists in 2013, and the source of world’s biggest spending tourists in 2012. Even the slowdown of China’s economy did not stop the development of tourism, with a massive 61.9 million Chinese traveling overseas in the first six months of this year, a 12.1% increase from the […]