Hotelbeds has revealed the top international destinations for Chinese travellers during the seven day Chinese New Year holiday period starting on February 4.
According to booking data from the Hotelbeds platform for this year’s break, Thailand is the most popular destination, with Japan and Singapore ranked second and thirdly respectively.
These are followed by Malaysia, the United States, Indonesia, Philippines, Australia, Vietnam, and South Korea.
Spain and Italy have this year dropped out of the top ten countries, replaced by Vietnam and South Korea, but the two remain popular with Chinese tourists and come in at eleventh and twelfth place this year.
Additionally, a trend for Chinese travellers visiting a wider range of countries continues, with Chinese travellers booking hotels through the Hotelbeds bedbank platform in 102 countries during the Chinese New Year holiday period, up from 88 last year.
China remains the number one source market in the wholesale channel for Hotelbeds in Asia Pacific and is now the 4th biggest for Hotelbeds globally, where Hotelbeds offers Chinese travel intermediaries – such as tour operators, airlines, points redemption schemes, and retail travel agents – access to more than 170,000 hotels, 24,000 transfer routes and 18,000 activities, available in over 185 countries.
According to the China National Tourism Administration (CNTA), a total of 6.5 million Chinese mainland tourists travelled aboard during the seven-day Chinese New Year holiday in 2018, with that figure set to increase to seven million this year.