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Tourism: Big money on overseas tour
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-04-04 14:42

Growing numbers of international tourists from China's largest city, Shanghai, are spending more of their wealth abroad, a survey has shown.

The number of outbound Shanghai tourists has risen by 15 percent to 20 percent annually in recent years. Last year, 1.985 million people traveled abroad from Shanghai, according to the survey published on Monday by Shanghai Municipal Tourism Committee.

Outbound tourists took about 500 million U.S. dollars to their destination countries, the survey revealed.


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