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China Hotel and Tourism News

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

China's rich are young and keen to travel

BEIJING (Reuters) - Compared with other countries, China's new urban rich are younger, better educated and keener to travel, a survey by international credit card organisation MasterCard showed on Monday. In general, Hong Kong and Macau remain the top two foreign destinations for newly affluent Chinese. But among those who have been abroad at least five times, Europe and the United States are becoming the favourite destinations, the survey found.