In 2006, the China tourism industry still maintained a rapid growth as before. The inbound tourism, domestic tourism and the outbound tourism markets comprehensively increased. In the year, China received more than 124.9421 million oversea tourists, earning an international tourism revenue of 33.949 billion US dollars, respectively up 3.9% and 15.9% as compared with the pervious year; The number of domestic tourists reached 1.394 billion, receiving 623 billion Yuan, increased 15.0% and 17.9% respectively from last year; The number of Chinese citizens went on tours abroad achieved 34.5236 million, up 11.3% than the previous year; The gross income of China Tourism Industry is 893.5 billion Yuan, 16.3% increased compared with last year, accounting for 4.27% of the GDP.

China Tourism Statistics 2006

Domestic Tourism:

Among all the 1,394 million domestic tourists in 2006, 576 million were urban residents and 818 million were rural residents, 15% up from last year

China's tourism received an income of 622.974 billion yuan from domestic tourists, increased 17.9% from the previous year. Of the total, 441.474 billion yuan were earned from urban residents and 181.5 billion yuan from rural inhabitants.

Domestic tourists spent an average of 446.9 yuan each on their travels, up 2.5% from 2005. Urban people spent an average of 766.4 yuan while rural residents spent an average of 221.9 yuan each.In the peak periods of tourism, like the Spring Festival, Labor Day (May Day) and the Chinese National Day each with one week of holidays, the 357 million domestic tourists brought the tourism revenue of 151.2 billion yuan.

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