According to the latest figures on spending, Chinese tourists were the biggest spenders in 2017, with a total spend $258 billion on foreign holidays.
In fact, Chinese tourists spent almost double the second placed spenders, the Americans, who coughed up a whopping $135 billion on their travels abroad. Third on the big spending list were Germans who spent $84 billion in 2017. These new figures come from the World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) and were released yesterday.