Chinese travel bookings to the EU for the first four months of 2019 grew by 16.7%

Chinese tourists to the European Union (EU) grew slightly by 5.1% year-on-year for the whole year of 2018, greatly promoted by the EU-China Tourism Year, according to a report from ETC and ForwardKeys. There were 17 million daily flight bookings to Europe.

The top 3 most popular EU destinations by the volume of Chinese arrivals were the UK (up by 2.4%), Germany (up by 2.6%), and France (up by 7.7%). The top fastest-growing destinations were Croatia (up by 45.7%), Estonia (up by 35.8%)...