The Newsletter 72 Autumn 2015

Travels & tourists in the Middle Kingdom: two insider perspectives. Special feature page: The Traveller

Stefano Calzati

Phenomena can be studied both as numeric data (trends) as well as practices, that is, cultural tendencies. When it comes to tourism in relation to China the first approach manifests a clear symptom: China is more and more at the centre of the global tourism sector, either as a tourism destination, or as the source of an increasing number of outbound tourists.