Total tourism revenue in 2019 is 6.63 trillion yuan, and tourism accounts for 11.05% of GDP

On March 10, with the approval of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the China Tourism Research Institute (Data Center of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism) was authorized to release the "Basic Situation of the Tourism Market 2019", which shows that in the whole year of 2019, the number of domestic tourists was 6.006 billion, which is higher than The year-on-year growth was 8.4%; the total number of inbound and outbound tourism was 300 million, a year-on-year increase of 3.1%; the total tourism revenue for the year was 6.63 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 11%.

The comprehensive contribution of tourism to GDP is 10.94 trillion yuan, accounting for 11.05% of the total GDP. Tourism directly employed 28.25 million people, and tourism directly and indirectly employed 79.87 million people, accounting for 10.31% of the country's total employment.

The number of inbound tourists in 2019 was 145 million, an increase of 2.9% over the same period last year. Among them, there were 31.88 million foreigners, an increase of 4.4%. International tourism revenue was 131.3 billion US dollars, an increase of 3.3% over the same period last year.

The number of Chinese citizens traveling abroad reached 155 million in 2019, an increase of 3.3% over the same period last year.