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More than 560,000 overseas tourists visited Beijing during the past three months, up 6.2 percent from the same period last year, said officials with the Beijing Tourism Bureau on Monday.
Statistics show that 469,000 foreigners arrived in Beijing in the first quarter, up 7.3 percent on a year-on-year basis. Some 59,000 Hong Kong residents and 3,000 Macao residents came to Beijing, up 1.3 percent and 24.4 percent respectively. About 29,000 Taiwan people visited the city, down 2.1 percent.
The foreign travelers came from almost every continent. Those from Asia, the Americas, Europe and Oceania grew by 7.9 percent, 8.9 percent, 12.9 percent and 1.3 percent. The number of African tourists, however, decreased by 0.7 percent.
Sources also indicated a growing number of domestic travelers. Hotels in the Chinese capital received over 2,534,000 Chinese tourists in the January-March period, up 46.4 percent from the same period last year.
(Xinhua News Agency April 8, 2003)
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