By Claire van den Heever
China is a great producer of mind-boggling statistics, and Chinese outbound tourism is no exception. But beyond how many tens of millions of people travelled last year, little else is published about this demographic: where they travel and why – or where they dream of going. A report by China’s top travel website, Qunar.com, published in the last quarter of 2011, aims to shed light on just that: Chinese tourists’ top ten dream destinations.
By Adam Skuse
Emerging from an alliance of three small cantons in the central Alps over 700 years ago and aimed at protecting free trade in the region, Switzerland’s neutrality has been recognised since the Congress of Vienna in 1815, when it won independence from Napoleonic France. This has been staunchly maintained ever since, seeing the federation of 26 cantons through two world wars that savaged the nations surrounding it.
By Iain Manley
Of the 57.4 million Chinese tourists and businesspeople who went overseas in 2010, only 730,000 arrived in Africa. A full 28 percent of them landed in Egypt, which has an appeal distinct from its neighbors, while a further 33 percent went to just two countries: South Africa, which saw a surge in tourism during the FIFA World Cup, and Kenya.
By Leo Zhang
For the past decade, China has been actively pursuing business opportunities in overseas infrastructure construction and pocketed a hefty amount of orders with handsome returns. However, after years’ of blistering expansion, the sector has come across a bottleneck.
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