Why can China become the largest source of tourists to the Great Lakes in the United States and surpass Britain and Germany for the first time?

Recently, the "2016 Tourist Arrivals Data Report" (hereinafter referred to as the "Report") released by the United States Great Lakes Tourism Bureau pointed out that in 2016, China surpassed the United Kingdom and Germany for the first time and became the largest tourist destination in the United States outside the Americas. The largest source of tourists.

Data show that in 2016, a total of 3.552 million tourists from outside the Americas entered the Great Lakes region of the United States. Among them, 495,000 tourists came from mainland China, accounting for 11.7% of the total arrivals. It is worth mentioning that the total number of Chinese tourists in 2016 increased by 24.7% year-on-year in 2015, becoming the fastest-growing overseas inbound market in the Great Lakes region.

According to 2016 statistics, Chinese tourists’ tourism consumption in the Great Lakes region reached US$4,701 per person, ranking first among inbound tourists and much higher than the average consumption of US$3,358 per person.

In addition, the Great Lakes region has high-quality university education resources, and the most famous headquarters such as the Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Hospital, University of Chicago Medical School, and Northwestern University Medical School are also gathered here, making it one of the most famous universities in the United States. The number one medical tourism destination.

In order to attract China's huge tourism consumer group, it is reported that in the winter of 2017, the Great Lakes Tourism Bureau will officially recommend to Chinese tourists special tourism experience projects such as lake ice fishing, mountain skiing and forest deer hunting.