tourism industry

China’s National Day Holiday – better known as ‘Golden Week’ – usually sees a wave of Chinese tourists visit the UK, but this year, fewer than expected have arrived. Tom Pattinson finds out why Pre-covid, China’s international tourism spend, at £225 billion, was the most of any country in the world – almost double that of the USA in second place, whose citizens collectively spent £117 billion in 2019. Much …

No longer is it all about package tourists being bused from town to town but increasingly Chinese tourists want more experiences from their trips to the UK, writes Ben Clements It’s impossible to go punting in Cambridge or whisky tasting in Scotland without bumping into Chinese tourists on the trail of good old British authenticity. More languages are spoken in London than any other capital city and today you are …