CTTC (California Travel and Tourism Commission) forecasts the number of Chinese visitors from China to California will increase 18 percent this year.
After the United Kingdom, Australia and Japan, China has become the fourth-largest source of international tourists for
California.
In 2010, the number of Chinese visitors to California grew by 49 percent year-on-year to 399,000 and they spent $648 million in the Golden State.
CTTC (California Travel and Tourism Commission) forecasts the number of Chinese visitors from China to California will increase 18 percent this year.
Shannon Brooks, international public relations manager of the CTTC said 51 percent of Chinese tourists to the US had visited California in 2010, giving the state a phenomenal market share in China.
California has 81 direct non-stop flights per week to and from China, with 10 percent of growth last year. Over the past four years, travel-related businesses across the state have invested close to $10 billion to innovate and enhance their products and facilities.
Major tourist destinations across the US have seen surging numbers of Chinese visitors in recent years. In 2010 alone, the total number of Chinese tourists visited the US reached 1.2 million, about 30 percent higher than 2009, according to the figures provided by China Tourism Academy.
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