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    USA , Mainland China continue to drive global travel

    July 25, 2019
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    USA , Mainland China continue to drive global travel

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    Mainland Chinese are traveling overseas for business and leisure in greater numbers than ever before, according to Mastercard’s newest study of its Global Destination Cities Index .

    Mainland China has jumped from No. 7 in 2009 to No. 2 today, behind only the United States in terms of the number of travelers to overseas destinations.

    Mastercard’s Global Destination Cities Index: Origins specifically ranks where the most people travel internationally from, and their top destinations.

    Globally, the industry contributed a record US$8.8 trillion and 319 million jobs in 2018, according to the World Travel & Tourism Council and insights like these can help shape local decision-making on how to best attract and serve travellers from around the world.

    This year, the United States is the No. 1 origin market followed by mainland China, Germany, the United Kingdom and France.

    Mainland China Origin figures do not count travel numbers and expenditure in Hong Kong SAR and Macau SAR.

    Travel from across Asia-Pacific also surged; the Republic of Korea and Taiwan, which were not in the top 10 a decade ago, rose to No. 6 and No. 10 respectively. The top origin markets are:

    United States of America

    Mainland China

    Germany

    United Kingdom

    France

    Republic of Korea

    Japan

    Canada

    Russian Federation

    Taiwan

    “Mastercard’s Global Destination Cities Index: Origins offers a new way for local officials and companies to see how travelers spend at destinations, providing them with better insights on how to plan and promote travel and tourism capabilities,” said Diana Robino, senior vice president, tourism partnerships for Mastercard.

    Mastercard acts as a key technology partner for the global travel and tourism industry, providing solutions that bundles data insights as tourism insights platform, digital identity, payment and security solutions, visitor management and infrastructure consulting in order to solve for the needs of a destination.

    The Mastercard Global Destination Cities Index ranks 200 cities based on third-party research and proprietary analysis in terms of the number of their total international overnight visitor arrivals and the cross-border spending by these same visitors in the destination cities in 2018, and gives visitor and passenger growth forecasts.

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