Meituan Travel registered more than 18 million room nights of hotel bookings in a single month in July, an increase of 50% year on year.
The Walt Disney Company reported an increase of 12% in its parks and resorts revenue for the third fiscal quarter, to $4.9 billion, and Shanghai Disneyland has received more than 13 million visitors.
China remains the world’s largest outbound tourism source market following a 5% increase year on year in the number of Chinese outbound tourists to 62.03 million in the first half of 2017.
Chinese tourist arrivals to Europe grew 65% in the first half of 2017. More than half of these tourists were over 50 years old.
China’s airlines carried 263 million passengers in the first half of 2017, up by 13.4%. Total turnover rose 12.5% to 51.34 billion ton-kilometers during the time.
Thailand’s tourism authority projected that Chinese tourists will make 9 million trips to the country this year, remaining its biggest source of foreign visitors.
The number of Chinese visitors to the Antarctic last year reached 3,944, accounting for 15% of the global market share, and China has become the second largest source market for Antarctica tourism, according to data from IAATO.
Ctrip projected that its group tour business will gross RMB 20 billion this year. Its chairman James Liang said that the company’s sales income from hotels, air tickets, and travel groups will quickly become the highest in the world.