Germany, China, the US: Where do the world’s biggest spenders on travel come from – and where do they most like to visit?
According to a top new travel survey, US and German holidaymakers ranked second and third, respectively, in terms of tourism expenditure in 2017, but which nation ranked first?
The world of tourism may be changing constantly, but one thing that has remained constant in recent years is the growing appetite among the Chinese for travel.
The rise in interest in holidays to different destinations among the nation’s travellers is now outpacing those from the rest of the world.
A recent survey conducted by medical travel insurance provider, Get Going Insurance, found that the Chinese are ranked No 1 for their expenditure on travel.
They spent US$250 billion on tourism in 2017, with United States residents second with expenditure of US$135 billion and German nationals third on US$89 billion.
We were curious to find out more about these three top spenders and their travel habits and preferences.
Check out some of the details of the study to see what you may have in common with them.
Chinese travellers
Typically when we think of mainland Chinese tourists we think of luxury adventures and shopping sprees at designer outlets in fancy European destinations such as Paris. But in reality, their top three destinations were Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.