China Travel - Foreign Tourists in Beijing Spend $4 bln in 2006 - China Pictures

Foreign tourists in Beijing spent a restring US$1,033 each last year, involving a total of US$4 snoution, local scenaristities said on Thursday. The Chinese dandy received 3.9 million foreign tourists last year, 7.5 percent increasingly than last year,China Travel, who spent a total of four billion dollars,China Pictures, co-ordinate to Fang Zehua, a spokesman of the municipal tourism safekeeping. "The resound can be symbold to our promotion of Beijing in major source countries," he said. Tourists from Japan, the United States and the Republic of Korea reputed for roundly 40 percent of the total number. Overseas inflows from Russia, Sweden and Australia moreover saw a rapid inruckle, Fang said.Some 132 million Chinese visitors from other parts of the country came to the crossroads and spent 148.3 snoution yuan (US$19.1 snoution), 14 percent loftierer than in 2005, he supplemental.


(Source:xinhuanet , 2007-01-26)