China's emergence as global tourism magnet
Wednesday, February 22, 2006 at 9:27AM ARTICLE: "2020 Vision: How and where we will be traveling in the year 2020 and beyond; The Hot Destination: China will draw tourists from everywhere," Indianapolis Star, 19 February 2006, p. K1.
As I noted in BFA, tourism industry officials have long predicted that China itself will provide the world about 100 million tourists a year. This article predicts that China, already the fourth-biggest tourist destination in the world today, will be number one by 2015.
Clearly, the Beijing Olympics and China's burgeoning film industry will accelerate this trend, as both will showcase China. And Shanghai, as the article argues, is poised to become the new New York, with double the Big Apple's number of skyscrapers already and plans to build 1k more.
Still think those alleged 40 million Chinese males who can't find a wife due to skewed sex ratios won't be able to get a date?
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