{"id":33396,"date":"2006-04-29T03:03:54","date_gmt":"2006-04-28T19:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2006\/04\/29\/wttc-china-will-become-third-largest-tourism-country-this-year\/"},"modified":"2006-04-29T03:03:54","modified_gmt":"2006-04-28T19:03:54","slug":"wttc-china-will-become-third-largest-tourism-country-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2006\/04\/29\/33396\/","title":{"rendered":"WTTC: China Will Become Third Largest Tourism Country This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World Travel  and  Tourism Council (WTTC) forecasts that the tourism industry of China will grow by 23% this year.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>WTTC says the total value of the Chinese tourism industry will reach US$301 billion in the year, making the country the third largest tourism country in the world next to the U.S and Japan.<\/p>\n<p>WTTC also estimates that China will become the world's second largest tourism and travel power country in the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Claude Baumgarten, chairman of WTTC says that generally it renews the tourism report of a country every five to ten years, but the rapid growth of China's travel and tourism industry makes WTTC reevaluate its tourism in three years.<\/p>\n<p>Concerned research result shows that by 2016, the total market value of China's tourism will exceed $1000 billion. <\/p>\n<p>WTTC is a leader of world's travel and tourism enterprises. Right now, it is managing about 100 major travel companies in the world.&amp;nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) forecasts that the tourism industry of China will grow by 23% this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}