Tourism & Transport Forum Australia (TTF) chief executive Margy Osmond said that the Chinese inbound visitor market is likely to continue its record-breaking run this Lunar New Year with an estimated additional 80,000 Chinese visitors expected to fly to Australia to join in the celebrations.
Australia is counting on the dawn of the new Lunar Year to provide a significant windfall to the country’s visitor economy.
Tourism & Transport Forum Australia (TTF) chief executive Margy Osmond said that the Chinese inbound visitor market is likely to continue its record-breaking run this Lunar New Year with an estimated additional 80,000 Chinese visitors expected to fly to Australia to join in the celebrations.
“With China set to overtake New Zealand for the first time as our largest source of inbound tourists any day now, perhaps we should be calling 2018 the Year of the Dingo to reflect the incredible contribution Chinese visitors have on our booming visitor economy,” Osmond said.
Sydney’s official Lunar New Year celebrations are considered to be the biggest outside mainland China.
“There is no doubt that China’s blossoming love-affair with Australia is one of the biggest long-term tourism opportunities we will ever see and in this Year of the Dingo, all Australians should embrace the incredible contribution China has made to both our national landscape and to our visitor economy,” Osmond added.