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With China now the world’s richest country by GDP and with an increasingly affluent middle class, often willing to spend high sums of money purchasing luxury goods abroad, destinations around the world are battling fiercely

Kidlington is a typical English village with approximately 14,000 residents that suddenly started seeing Chinese tourists flooding its streets in 2016. What began as a vivid discussion on the village’s local Facebook page soon became

Residents in a quiet and unremarkable Oxfordshire village have spent much of the year wondering why coach loads of Chinese tourists have been arriving in masse to take photographs of their cars and houses. Now,

It’s a common sight in mainland China: a tour guide operator leading crowds of tourists through packed attractions, holding a colorful flag and a loud hailer. But mass tour groups are becoming less popular for

Chinese travelers are keen on using apps when planning and booking trips, and their willingness to embrace technology is much more widespread than in Europe or the United States. International travel deals site Travelzoo revealed

Money talks, and increasingly, more tourists from China have the money to spend on travel to far-flung destinations like Las Vegas. While it’s nice to see U.S. cities serving markets that have, historically, been underserved,

Anyone who thinks the wave of Chinese tourism now inundating the world will slow down any time soon needs to think again. I recently participated in a two-week sales mission to China on behalf of

China’s deficit in tourism is over 40 percent of China’s goods surplus (the other parts of services trade are in rough balance; China’s services deficit is for now all tourism); the tourism deficit is one

China’s National Tourist Bureau recently issued new public travel regulations that restrict or blacklist Chinese tourists from traveling if they behave ‘uncivilized’. At present, these 20 Chinese tourists are already blacklisted. China’s National Tourist Office has

The spending power of Chinese tourists in Japan is so impressive there’s a special word for it: bakugai, or explosive buying. While the soaring yen this year has threatened to curb their enthusiasm, the latest