中國遊客蟬聯境外消費冠軍 去年消費達2610億美元

Chinese tourists continued to spend more than any other country's outbound travelers last year, while more than doubling the spending by their US counterparts, according to data released by the United Nations World Tourism Organization.

聯合國世界旅遊組織近日發佈的數據顯示，去年中國遊客的境外消費額在全球出境遊客中居首，且是美國遊客的兩倍多。

Chinese travelers spent 262 billion USD on foreign trips in 2016, a 12% increase over the figure in 2015, while the number of outbound tourists rose 6% to 135 million in 2016.

2016年，中國遊客的境外消費總額達2620億美元，較2015年增加了12%。赴境外旅遊的中國遊客數量增加了6%，至1.35億人次。

Meanwhile, outbound travelers from the US, the second-largest outbound market for tourism spending last year, spent 122 billion USD abroad. Travelers from Germany, the UK and France trailed behind.

同時，美國是第二大境外遊消費市場，該國遊客在境外消費了1220億美元，德國、英國、法國遊客位列其後。

The UNWTO said that China has been the largest outbound travel market since 2012 and that 2016 marked the 13th consecutive year that China saw double-digit growth on outbound tourism expenditure.

聯合國世界旅遊組織表示，自2012年以來，中國已經成爲了最大的境外遊消費市場。而2016年這一數據也標誌着中國遊客境外消費連續第13年呈兩位數的增長。

The growth of China's outbound tourism benefited not only many short-haul destinations in Asia and the Pacific, most notably Japan, South Korea and Thailand, but also long-haul destinations including the US and Europe.

中國境外旅遊的增長不僅令亞太地區諸多短途目的地受益，其中日本、韓國和泰國受益最大，也使歐美等長途目的地獲益匪淺。