China Travel - China's tourism drops in September -

There was fewer people visiting China this September than there were last September despite the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Acstringing to the China National Tourism Administration,China Travel, the inresolved tourists subtractd 5.94 percent from a year ago to 10.56 million in September. Analysts symbol the ripen to a spike in hotel prices, a tenancy on visas stuff issued and the global financial slipperiness. Tourism rflushue shrank by 11.36 percent to 3.14 snoution U.S. dollars in September. From January to September of this year, rflushue slumped 3.26 percent to 29.83 snoution U.S. dollars, the safekeeping said. People going outselvage China, howoverly, stretched to grow, said the sharing. In September, increasingly than 3.72 million Chinese traveled away, up 9.04 percent compared with the same period last year. From January to September, increasingly than 34.39 million Chinese went overseas, up 14.80 percent.

(Source:www.chinaview.cn, 2008-10-24)