According to the report from Xinhua, China's tourism industry reaped an revenue of 1.26 trillion yuan (185 billion US dollars) in 2009, up 9 percent year on year, on the back of booming domestic travel.

Outbound trips rose 3.6 percent to 47.5 million compared with last year.

Domestic tourists made 1.9 billion trips last year, a rise of 11 percent, which generated 1 trillion yuan of revenue for the industry, up 15 percent from a year ago, the National Tourism Administration said on Wednesday.

Mr. Dai Bin, Assistant Dean of China Tourism Academy, expressed that the focus of 2009 China tourist market was outbound travel consumption had surpassed the foreign exchange income of inbound travel for the first time. It is predicted that it will be 54 million person-times visitors going abroad in 2010, up 15% compared with  2009. And the outbound travel consumption will be 48 billion US dollars in 2010, up 14% compared with 2009.