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Chinese Travelers Choose Shopping Over Luxury Hotels

Dan Peltier

Skift Take

The buzz around Chinese travel spend is certainly warranted but let's not forget the Americans and Germans, to name a few.

Convincing Chinese tourists to spend more on lodging abroad during the next five years won't be easy because their priority as a group is shopping for luxury goods. That's the view of Euromonitor, which released statistics projecting that Chinese tourists will remain the world's biggest spenders on outbound travel through 2019. Chinese already spend the most on international trips ($145 billion last year) and by 2019 Chinese travelers are projected to spend more than $245 billion abroad. For 2015, the data indicate overall Chinese outbound spending will increase 9.6% year-

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