- Travel in China -
Discover China in '08!
Plan to Attend the Public Relations World Congress
Visitors To China By Region/Country
- NATIONALITY 2005 TOTAL
- TOTAL 20,255,137
- ASIA 12,506,302
- JAPAN 3,389,976
- KOREA 3,545,341
- KOREA D.P. REP. 125,800
- MONGOLIA 641,985
- PHILIPPINES 654,000
- THAILAND 586,267
- SINGAPORE 755,883
- INDONESIA 377,622
- MALAYSIA 899,643
- PAKISTAN 83,813
- INDIA 356,460
- NEPAL 29,016
- SRI LANKA 23,461
- KAZAKHSTAN 186,647
- KYRGYZSTAN 37,466
- OTHERS 812,922
- AMERICA 2,145,758
- U.S.A. 1,555,450
- CANADA 429,784
- MEXICO 31,303
- OTHERS 129,221
- EUROPE 4,784,936
- U.K. 499,629
- GERMANY 454,859
- FRANCE 371,987
- ITALY 176,989
- RUSSIA 2,223,875
- SWITZERLAND 51,385
- SWEDEN 110,253
- NETHERLANDS 145,823
- NORWAY 45,127
- AUSTRIA 53,832
- BELGIUM 50,510
- SPAIN 114,758
- PORTUGAL 43,781
- OTHERS 442,128
- OCEANIA 573,579
- AUSTRALIA 482,968
- NEW ZEALAND 78,365
- OTHERS 12,246
- AFRICA 238,046
- OTHERS 6,516
Forbidden City of Beijing China.
China is forever linked to its ancient civilization, friendly people, and many of the world's most revered treasures, such as The Great Wall, Terra-Cotta Warriors & Horses and the Yangtze River. Today, you can also find spectacular architecture and towering skylines in Beijing and Shanghai, a wealth of luxury accommodations - and as always - exquisite cuisine.
Plan to attend the 2008 IPRA Public Relations World Congress and see why China is drawing millions of visitors from all over the world. The Xinhua News Agency reported that a record 472,000 overseas tourists arrived in Beijing during October 2007, pushing the number of foreign visitors to the city to 3.68 million in the first 10 months of 2007. During the January-October period, foreign nationals made 3.23 million visits to Beijing, up 14.2 percent. Compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan contributed 449,000 visits, up 3.1 percent.
The United States was the city's number one source of overseas tourists with 521,000 arrivals, up 21.7 percent, in the first 10 months. Japan was second with 488,000 visits, up 20.1 percent, followed by the Republic of Korea at 383,000, an increase of 6.8 percent.
China National Tourist Office: www.cnto.org
