Globally, number of visitors to theme parks all over the world is projected to grow to 1.3 billion in 2022 from the current total of 1 billion! Fueled mainly by new theme parks in China and Malaysia in the coming five years, market share of Asia Pacific will grow to 46% from 43%.

In the first three days of May Day mini-golden week this year, number of Mainland Chinese visiting Hong Kong totaled some 840,000, up almost 40%; while those visiting Macau totaled 437,000, up 42.7%.

Some 7.5 million foreign travelers visited Los Angeles in 2018, and among them 1.2 million from China and they brought they city a direct income totaling US$1.6 billion.

Some 256,000 Chinese tourists, up 11.06%, visited Hungary in 2018.

Airbnb said 97% of the income derived from rent goes to the landlord, and 50% of their tenant tourists’ spending occur in areas around where they stay.

For non-traditional tourism cities and attractions in the Asia Pacific, Airbnb's fastest growing market in 2018 was China which grew 179%, then Vietnam at 111%, Philippines at 100%, Malaysia at 98% and South Korea at 93%.

Airbnb has nearly 0.5 million rooms in and near non-traditional tourism cities and attractions in the Asia Pacific, which in 2018 drew 12 million travelers, up 70% over the year before, and generated revenue totaling USD1 billion.

Among Chinese tourists to the Antarctica, 47% aged between 50 and 70, while 23% were born in the Nineties, from 2018/19 report published by C-trip, a leading travel portal of China.

A total of 8273 Chinese tourists visited the Antarctica in 2018, and the number is expected to breach 10000 in the year 2018/19.

Chinese tourists’ travel spending during peak season in last summer averaged RMB6000 per person per outbound trip and RMB2800 per domestic trip to other province, according to China Tourism Research Institute.

In 2018, China's Hunan province welcomed 875,300 tourists, up 11.5% over the year before, from Hong Kong.

Media reported number of booking of speed train to China for Easter Holiday this month from Hong Kong tourists totaled some 100,000.

In the financial year 2017/18, Hong Kong had 213,000 salary tax payers, up 8.5%, with annual salary over HK$900,000 who account for 11.4% all tax-payers; and 239,000 tax payers, up 10.6%, with annual salary ranging from HK$600,000 to HK$900,000 who account for 12.8% of all tax payers.

Travelers from Greater China spent in 2018 in Switzerland 1.72 million man-nights, up 6.1%, and around three quarters of Chinese tourists interested in outdoor activities.

In 2018, Paris itself welcomed 800,000 tourists from China, up 3.2%, and among them at least 40% are FIT.

Chinese tourists top France’s inbound by spending on shopping! From tax refund data, average transaction of Chinese tourists in France in 2018 value at EURO1525.

1.8 million Chinese tourists visited Paris and neighboring areas in 2018, with around 50% traveling in FIT. Chinese arrivals increased 3.7 times in the past ten years between 2008 and 2018.

There are seven provinces with per capita disposable income exceeding RMB10000 in the first quarter of 2019, which are respectively Shanghai, Beijing, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Tianjin, Guangdong and Fujian.

Per Capita Disposable Income of all Chinese citizens in the first quarter of 2019 average RMB8493, up 8.7% over same period last year by nominal value but at 6.8% after deducting inflation.

The Boston Marathon this year drew 30234 runners of whom 951 from China, up some 40% on the 682 Chinese runners in 2018 and three times more than the 309 Chinese runners in 2017.

The survey found female account for 46% of these multi-millionaires with average age of 58, while male account for 54% with average age of 60.

A survey which in past 6 months interviewed 4192 Hong Kong citizens aged between 21 and 79 found a record number of 511,000 citizens have net worth of at least HK$10 million, and 69000 among them have current asset worth HK$10 million or more.

High end tailored made tour tourists in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen in 2018 on average spend RMB 23749 per person per trip.

From C-trip, the top ten Chinese (mainland) cities by popularity of tailored made tour in 2018 are Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Wuhan, Xian and Chongqing.

C-trip, a major travel portal in China, reported its tailored-made tour platform saw 180% increase in the number of order in 2018 and in fact triple digits growth in each of the previous three years.

Last year, Hong Kong sent some 410,000 tourists to the Sichuan province of south-west China, thus ranked the province’s second largest source market! In fact, Hong Kong ranked either its largest or second largest market in the past three years.

Comparing to last year, bookings of package tour to Guangdong by coach during the coming Easter Holiday rise by 30% while cost by 35%, and around half of these tours via the new mega bridge linking Hong Kong, Macau and Zhuhai.

Bookings of package tour to long haul destinations all over the world during the coming Easter Holiday rise by 8% comparing to last year though tours cost 5% more, from the city’s Travel Industry Council (TIC). Popular destinations include Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East etc.

Bookings of package tour to short haul destinations in Asia during the coming Easter Holiday that lasts from April 19 to 22 similar to last year though tours cost 3% to 5% more, from the city’s Travel Industry Council (TIC).

Media report quoted Celebrity Cruises who believes MICE business in Asia has much room to grow and cited booking of an Alaska cruise by a direct selling company from Hong Kong for 600 staff in coming June.

62.4% Chinese students studying abroad come from families with annual income of RMB500000 or less, so more now come from mid-level income families instead of upper-middle in the past.

From Chinese media, 53700 more Chinese students went abroad to study in 2018, up 8.83%, but the rate of increase is far slower than that of 11.74% in 2017.

From China’s Ministry of Education, some 662,100 Chinese went abroad in 2018 to study, and among them nearly 600,000 or 90% of the yearly total with own financing.

Survey found 90% respondents will insure their holidays, and 86% of respondents with children think it is important for free insurance coverage for accompanying children.

The insurance company’s survey found for senior Hong Kong citizens aged 61 or above, 77.8% had 1 to 5 outbound holidays in past three years.

An insurance company commissioned a survey which last month interviewed 500 Hong Kong citizens aged between 18 and 80. It found in past 3 years, 64% respondents had 1 to 5 outbound holidays and over 10% had 11 or more outbound holidays.

In 2018, Cambodia welcomed 6.2 million inbound tourists, up 10.7%, of whom around 2 million from China.

Globally, cruise holiday, whose number of travelers grew 78% between 2007 and 2018, account for 3% of the world' s outbound market in 2018.

A report jointly published by VISA and an consultancy firm report the global medical tourism trade worth US$ 50 billion, and will grow by 25% each year in the coming decade.

China accounted for over 30% of the 0.53 million inbound travelers visiting Mongolia in 2018.

The Institute further report the top 10 shopping destinations for China' s outbound last year are respectively Hong Kong, Dubai, Osaka, Macau, Tokyo, Paris, Nagoya, London, Singapore and Kyoto.

The Institute further report the top 20 destinations for China’s outbound last year are Thailand, Japan, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, USA, Cambodia, Russia, Philippines, Australia, Italy, UAE, Turkey, UK, Maldives, France, Germany, Spain and Sri Lanka.

China Tourism Research Institute report the country’s outbound in 2018 totaled 148.72 million, up 14.7%, and remain World’s largest source market.

Based on its booking for Spring Festival Golden Week this year, C-trip, China’s largest travel portal, reported 48% of its users chose FIT or private tour, which in general cost 23% more than package tour.

Some 1.43 million Chinese travelers visited Australia in 2018, thus China replace New Zealand to become the largest source market.

The China- New Zealand year of Tourism 2019 will begin on March 29 after being postponed in mid-February amid diplomatic tensions between the two countries. Numbers of Chinese visitors to New Zealand is projected to increase to 800,000 by 2024.

China is New Zealand’s second largest tourism market, behind Australia, with more than 450,000 Chinese travelers visited New Zealand in 2018

Top ten destinations popular with Chinese tourists for Chinese New Year this year were Thailand, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, USA, Indonesia, Philippines, Australia, Vietnam and South Korea, based on booking data from the Hotelbeds platform.

In 2018, Hong Kong citizens made 92.21 million departures in 2018, averaging 12.4 departures per person!

3.42 million travelers from mainland China, up 6% over the year before, visited Singapore in 2018 and China again became the city state' s second largest source market.

In 2018, some 105,000 Chinese travelers visited Israel while the corresponding figure for 2015 was 47,000.

In SE Asia, budget carriers have about 1,400 aircrafts on order, while the full service carriers have fewer than 400. Asia Pacific is forecast requiring 16930 new planes through 2037.

According to IATA, global air passenger traffic is set to double in the next two decades with Asia Pacific region where almost 4 billion passenger journeys are expected, having the biggest increase.

China' s tourism industry accounted for 11.04% of the country' s GDP, directly employing 28.26 million and indirectly 79.91 million people in 2018.

In 2018, China' s total outbound increased by 14.7% to 149.72 million, while domestic travelers grew by 10.8% to 5.539 billion.

The ten most popular destinations for Chinese outbound tourists during the Spring Festival this year are Thailand, Japan, Vietnam, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, USA, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

Xinhua News Agency reported Chinese citizens made some 6.31 million departures in the Spring Festival Golden Week, up 12.48%.

Some 1.3 million Chinese tourists visited Australia in the year ended September 2018, who spent A$11.5 billion (US$8.1 billion) which account for over 25% of all inbound spending.

Some 1.98 million Chinese travelers visited Indonesia in 2018, with per capita spending per trip average US$1139 or RMB7680.

Indonesia hope to attract some 0.2 million Chinese tourists in February to celebrate the Spring Festival Holiday and Chinese Valentine Day there.

Phuket of Thailand project to attract over 0.33 million Chinese tourists during the Spring Festival Holiday, generating revenue for Thailand travel trade totaling Thai baht 10 billion (RMB2.1 billion).

Indonesia project to draw, from China, around 0.2 million tourists in this February and around 3.5 million tourists for the year 2019.

From IATA, total billing of air ticket sales in Hong Kong in 2018 rose by 7% to HK$28,529 million, while number of transactions rose by 13% to 10.7 million.

Based on outbound levy income collected by Hong Kong Travel Industry Council, total revenue of the city' s outbound tour groups grew 8.1% in the year 2018.

Three most popular Asian destinations for solo holiday during the Chinese New Year were respectively Japan, Singapore and South Korea.

Three most popular non-Asian destinations for solo holiday during the Chinese New Year were respectively UK, USA and Germany.

Media quoted a survey commissioned by an international airline, which interviewed last month 1002 Hong Kong citizens between 18 to 39 years old. Nearly 21% of the respondents expressed desire to take overseas holiday alone during the Chinese New Year.

Top two reasons are respectively "going to where one wants to go at any time" chosen by 45% respondents and "enjoy one's own time" at 44%.

Among these Hong Kong bookings of Airbnb, 36% made by those aged 40 or higher and many groups consisting of 4 persons.

Top five destinations for outbound holiday during the Spring Festival this year, based on Airbnb bookings from Hong Kong, were respectively Japan, Australia with some 13000 bookings, Taiwan, South Korea and Thailand.

Hong Kong' s speed train tour groups departed in the mainland before the station opened last year. Impacts of the opening include, for speed train tour groups to neighboring provinces during Spring Festival this year, a 30% rise in number of bookings, cost 10% more and half of these groups depart from Hong Kong.

The Immigration Dept predicted 7.32 million passengers will pass through Hong Kong border during the Spring Festival between Feb 4 and 10.

Our office will be closed from 5-7 Feb 2019 for the Lunar New Year holidays and will resume service on 8 Feb 2019.

Except those to Thailand which cost 8% to 10% more, prices for short haul outbound tours departing from Hong Kong during the Spring Festival this year similar to last year, while booking rise on average by 5%, according to the city’s Travel Industry Council (TIC).

Long haul outbound tours departing from Hong Kong during the Spring Festival this year will cost 5% to 10% more while passenger volume rise on average by 10%, and destinations in Europe and the Mediterranean for examples are popular, according to the city' s travel agents association (TIC).

Further, media reported that 73% of those China's white collar workers working in foreign funded enterprises received yearend bonus, while less than half of those in other private business got the bonus.

Media report that some 75% of China' s white collar workers' yearend bonus are given out in cash, with the balance in kind such as food and daily necessities.

In 2018, only 55% of China's white collar workers received year-end bonus, a significant drop from the 66% in 2017; with the average amount also dropped RMB200 from 2017 to RMB7100 in 2018, reported by an recruitment firm there.

By per capita spending in 2018, Chinese (mainland) tourists in Japan at over Yen 100,000 ranked top, with Hong Kong at around yen 50000 ranked 4th.

In 2018, Chinese (mainland) tourists ranked top accounting for 34.1% all tourists' spending in Japan, and with others of Japan' s top five markets including South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and USA accounted for over 70% of all tourists spending.

In 2018, shopping accounted for 34.7% of all tourists’ spending in Japan, to be followed by hotel / lodging at 29.3% and Food & Drink at 21.7%.

In 2018, some 2.2 million Hong Kong citizens visited Japan, and Hong Kong is Japan's fourth largest source market well before the fifth source market of USA with 1.52 million inbound to Japan.

In 2018, a record of some 8.4 million Chinese (mainland) tourists visited Japan, and China is Japan's largest source market.

Henley Passport Index, which is prepared based on IATA data, ranks markets by number of destinations with visa free entry. China, whose passport holders can visit 74 destinations visa free, ranks 69 in 2019.

From China Tourism Research Institute, in 2017, Hong Kong travelers visiting the mainland accounted for 57.2% of all China' s inbound; and together with inbound from Macau and Taiwan totaled over 110.3 million, accounting for 79% of all China's inbound.

Chongqing, a major city in SW China, drew 7.8% more inbound group tourists during the National Day Golden Week in 2018. Hong Kong, which accounted for 19.8% of all these tourists, is the largest source market.

Media reported in last November the annul number of Chinese overnight arrivals to Davos of Switzerland has been increasing at 30% in each of the past five years, and reached nearly 15000 in 2017.

Globally, 51707 tourists visited the Antarctica in the year 2017 / 18, and among them 16% or 8273 from China and the number possibly rise above 10000 in 2018 /19.

There were some 200,000 home-stay premises in China in 2017, a big jump from around 50000 in 2016, employing directly nearly 2 million staff and generated revenues totaling RMB36.28 billion.

Now, over 1.6 billion tourists visiting China's forest in each year, which account for roughly 30% of the country's domestic travelers, according to senior official from China's State Forestry and Grassland Administration in December 2018.

Each departing visitor now requires to pay, but those bought tickets before January 7, transit passengers departing within 24 hours and children under two years old are exempted.

Each year, Bali draws some 5.9 million tourists, roughly 42% of' s 14 million tourists.

In the first 8months of 2018, Cambodia received over 1.27 million tourists from China, a 72% increase on the same period in 2017.

Macao's gaming revenue in 2018 grew by 14% to MOP302.8 billion, the first time such revenue exceeding MOP300 a year since 2014.

Macao reported its gaming revenue in December 2018 grew, comparing to same period last year, 16.6% to MOP (Pataca) 26.47 billion; and the current growing trend has been continued for 29 months.

Number of arrivals from China to Thailand exceeded for the first time 10 million on December 19, 2017, and a ceremony was held to welcome the 10th million inbound tourist from China.