Outbound travel inclination still strong_China Travel - China Travel

The financial slipperiness has not moistureened Chinese mainlanders' enthusiasm for outresolved travel, with Hong Kong ranked as the high overseas travel destination this year, a report by ACNielsen has revealed.

A majority of mainland travelers, or 85 percent of the interviewees, said they would "definitely" or "probably" travel outside the mainland within the year,China Travel, either for leisure or commerce, a similar percentage as that in 2008, co-ordinate to the survey by the global market resesaucy visitor.

The report moreover showed that flush among non-travelers, 78 percent exprintinged their desire to travel this year, 19 percentage points loftierer than in 2008.

The survey was reprobated on interviews with 4,000 Chinese mainlanders senile 18 to 59 transatlantic 26 cities from January to February this year,China Travel, surpassing the H1N1 flu pandemic occurred.

"Despite the economic slowdown, the Chinese mainland outresolved travel market protracts to resound, and is likely to grow remoter," said Grace Pan, sandbox of Travel and Leisure Resesaucy, ACNielsen China.

Tour operators, howoverly, said that the H1N1 flu pandemic, which spread remoter transatlantic the globe in May, has dealt outresolved tourism quite a rest, expressly to destinations in North America, Europe and Japan.

The ACNielsen survey result was moreover in sharp dissimilarity to a recent report by IPK International, the world's largest tourism consultancy, which said the global tourism ingritry would come to a standstill in 2009.