{"id":34879,"date":"2005-11-07T22:46:42","date_gmt":"2005-11-07T14:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2005\/11\/07\/china-to-be-top-tourism-destination-by-2017\/"},"modified":"2005-11-07T22:46:42","modified_gmt":"2005-11-07T14:46:42","slug":"china-to-be-top-tourism-destination-by-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2005\/11\/07\/34879\/","title":{"rendered":"China To Be Top Tourism Destination By 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"60\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/images\/cnta_logo.gif\" width=\"61\" align=\"right\">Zhang Jilin, deputy director of the China National Tourism Administration's Planning, Development and Financial Department, says that according to his agency's calculations, China will be the top global tourist destination by 2017.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The World Trade Organization had predicted that China will receive 137 million overnight inbound tourists in 2020, thus becoming world's largest tourist destination. However these new figures from Zhang show China will reach that target three years earlier than expected.<\/p>\n<p>Official statistics show that China received 41.76 million overseas tourists who spent at least one night on the Chinese mainland last year, ranking fourth in the world. Tourism revenue hit US$25.7 billion, ranking seventh in the world, according to a report about China's tourism investment issued by China National Tourism Administration.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, more than 6 million people work in the tourism sector in China and and the number is expected to increase by more than 500,000 annually over the next five years, China National Tourism Administration's statistics indicate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zhang Jilin, deputy director of the China National Tourism Administration's Planning, Development and Financial Department, says that according to his agency's calculations, China will be the top global tourist destination by 2017.<\/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-34879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34879","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=34879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}