The biggest winners of the Chinese tourist boom are therefore likely to be international retailers and luxury-goods manufacturers.
Major shopping streets such as Bond Street in London and Fifth Avenue in New York are already heavily dependent on Chinese tourist spending.
Naicy Zhang, a Chinese tourist visiting Hong Kong from Dongguan, agrees.
The Chinese tourist market is growing rapidly, driven by burgeoning affluence.
Xintiandi, originally a haven for expatriates, is now Shanghai's number one tourist attraction for Chinese visitors, says Vincent Lo, chairman of Shui On.
Chinese accounted for 22% of tourist arrivals last year (even with a mainland tourist ban around the time of the territory's handover).
But this place truly is the sort of spot where the island's many identities - Malay, Chinese, Indian, British colonial, modern tourist - thread together into a beautiful knot.
Chinese officials would probably not have cottoned on to the tourist-pulling potential of the Roman story had it not been for an Australian writer and adventurer, David Harris.
By the Pakistan Tourist Office is the Mona Lisa restaurant, with an extensive menu including Chinese and Italian food.
The mainland's middle class is estimated at anywhere between 20 million and 50 million, the yuan is holding firm and Beijing is easing up on travel restrictions--good news for Chinese with itchy feet, and for the country's cash-strapped and tourist-hungry neighbors.
China's figures for the first half of this year show that 40% of tourist visas were granted to independent travelers--indicating tacit approval from above as Chinese tourists continue to open their wallets--and minds--around the region.
This company outing was to be the biggest tourist group since this summer when Japanese visa regulations were relaxed and the pool of potential Chinese tourists to Japan aligned to Japanese Ministry guidelines regarding job and income levels increased to about 20 million.
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