Is it good or bad that there are more outbound tourists than inbound tourists?

It can promote economic development, and outbound travel can promote the development of highway, railway and aviation, create more employment opportunities and stimulate the development of service industry. After all, most people who leave the country will buy things, and only a few people will buy luxury goods, which will promote the economic development of the destination country and benefit the global economic development.

Current situation of outbound tourism development

1In March, 1997, the National Tourism Administration and the Ministry of Public Security promulgated the Interim Measures for the Administration of Overseas Travel of China Citizens at Their Own expense, which marked the formation of China's outbound tourism market. After years of development, China has become one of the top ten outbound tourism consumption countries in the world, and it is the fastest growing emerging tourist source exporting country in the world. At present, the development of outbound tourism in China has the following characteristics:

(1) The number of tourists has maintained a sustained and rapid growth.

From 1994 to 2003, China left the country nearly 1 100 million times, with an average annual growth of 13.87%. Among them, the total number of outbound tourists reached 20.22 million in 2003, surpassing Japan's outbound scale of about170,000 for the first time and becoming the largest tourist exporter in Asia. See table 1.

According to the statistics of the National Tourism Administration, the total number of China citizens traveling abroad in 2005 was 31026,300, an increase of 7.5% over the previous year, ranking first in Asia. Among them, 5,886,300 people went abroad on business, an increase of 0.2% over the previous year, accounting for19.0% of the total number of people leaving the country; There were 25140,000 people going abroad for personal reasons, an increase of 9.4% over the previous year, accounting for 8 1.0% of the total number of people leaving the country. See figure 1.

(2) The concentration of destination countries has changed.

By 2004, the total number of overseas tourist destinations approved by the State Council for China citizens has reached 90, and 63 have been implemented. China's outbound tourism plays an increasingly important role in the international tourism market.

Generally speaking, China citizens' outbound destinations are still mainly in the Asia-Pacific region. Geographically, before 1997, the outbound destinations were mainly concentrated in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong and Macau, but now more countries such as South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Germany have become destinations for China citizens to travel abroad.

(3) The nature and structure of outbound tourism have changed.

In recent years, the total number of China citizens leaving the country, whether on business or for personal reasons, is on the rise.

After two years' decline, 200 1 business travel shows a positive growth, which is related to China's further opening up and expansion of international exchanges after its accession to the World Trade Organization.

With the improvement of people's living standard and the change of consumption concept, private outbound tourism has broken through the long-term closure and become a hot spot in the tourism market once it is launched. Moreover, since 2000, the number of people going abroad for personal reasons has exceeded the number of people going abroad for business and has become the main body of outbound tourism.

(D) Outbound tourism has become a new profit growth point for travel agencies.

China's outbound tourism market has huge demand, strong business initiative and high profit rate. All travel agencies are aiming at this market and opening up new sources of profit.