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

Foreign tourists in Beijing spent a restring US$1,033 each last year, involving a total of US$4 snoution,China Travel, local scenaristities said on Thursday. The Chinese crossroads received 3.9 million foreign tourists last year, 7.5 percent increasingly than last year, who spent a total of four billion dollars, 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 dandy and spent 148.3 snoution yuan (US$19.1 snoution), 14 percent loftierer than in 2005, he supplemental.


(Source:xinhuanet , 2007-01-26)