{"id":94691778,"date":"2011-04-12T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/china-surpasses-spain-as-the-world-s-third-largest-tourism-destination\/"},"modified":"2011-04-12T14:39:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T14:39:00","slug":"china-surpasses-spain-as-the-world-s-third-largest-tourism-destination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/china-surpasses-spain-as-the-world-s-third-largest-tourism-destination\/","title":{"rendered":"China Surpasses Spain as the World\u2019s Third Largest Tourism Destination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2011\/4\/Shanhai.jpg\" alt=\"The Shanghai  skyline at sunset\" title=\"The Shanghai  skyline at sunset\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<strong>China welcomed fewer visitors than only the US and France in 2010&nbsp; <\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nChina has surpassed Spain as the world&rsquo;s third largest tourism destination, according to new figures from the United Nations Tourism Organization. 55.7 million people made a trip to China last year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe United States held on to the number one spot in 2010, welcoming 78.95 million visitors while France finished second with 60.88 million.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlthough Spain welcomed fewer visitors than China, it attracted a higher volume of big spenders. Spain finished behind only the United States in terms of tourism dollars, raking in $52.5 billion.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhile China experienced an increase in visitors, the country also saw a 20 percent increase in the number of its own citizens traveling internationally. 57.39 million Chinese citizens traveled abroad last year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.breakingtravelnews.com\/news\/article\/china-overtakes-spain-to-become-worlds-third-largest-tourism-destination\/\" target=\"_blank\">BTN <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; China welcomed fewer visitors than only the US and France in 2010&nbsp; &nbsp; China has surpassed Spain as the world&rsquo;s third largest tourism destination, according to new figures from the United Nations Tourism Organization. 55.7 million people made a trip to China last year. &nbsp; The United States held on to the number one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94691778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94691778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94691778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94691778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94691778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94691778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94691778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}