Is it true that China ranked first in total global tourism arrivals and total revenue in 2017?

Recently, the World Tourism Cities Federation's "China Tourism Market Development Forum" was held in London. The "World Tourism Economic Trends Report (2018)" was released at the meeting, and experts and member representatives of the Federation were invited to discuss Characteristics of the Chinese market under the development trend of world tourism. According to analysis, in the ranking of total global tourist arrivals and total tourism revenue in 2017, China ranked first, followed by India, the United States, Japan and France.

Data show that from the perspective of the global share of total tourist arrivals and total tourism revenue in each major sector: the proportion of the European sector continues to decline; the share of tourist arrivals of the American sector has declined, and the share of tourism revenue is slightly There has been an increase; the share of the Asia-Pacific sector continues to increase significantly.

In terms of total tourist arrivals, the Asia-Pacific region accounted for 66.6% of the total global tourist arrivals in 2017, an increase of 1.6 percentage points from the previous year; from 2016 to 2017, the share of the American sector increased from 16.5% dropped to 15.8%, a decrease of 0.7 percentage points; the share of the European sector dropped from 15.6% to 14.9%, a decrease of 0.7 percentage points; the share of the Middle East sector fell by 0.1 percentage points, and the share of the African sector remained unchanged. Overall, Europe, America and Asia-Pacific markets account for 97.3% of total global tourist arrivals.