Posted on 07/09/2013 11:50:35 PM PDT by TexGrill
Over the past 15 years, China's commercial engagement with Africa has seen rapid growth in the trade, aid and investment sectors. Overshadowed by the constant focus on these sectors, tourism trade between the Asian nation and Africa has been quietly expanding.
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is becoming an increasingly popular destination for Chinese tourists. In 2008, 2.6 percent of Chinese outbound tourists chose to travel to Africa, compared to the 8.8 percent that traveled to the Americas and the 67.8 percent that visited other Asian countries.
South Africa is the most popular tourist destination for Chinese visitors to SSA. According to South Africa's tourism department, the country attracted 132,334 Chinese visitors in 2012, a 55.9-percent year-on-year increase and three times the number of Chinese tourists that visited the country in 2009. China has become the fourth largest country of origin for tourists visiting South Africa.
A growing number of Chinese tourists are also visiting Kenya. As a preferred safari destination, Kenya has seen the number of Chinese tourists more than triple between 2005 and 2011, reaching 41,000.
(Excerpt) Read more at chinafrica.cn ...
Africa tourism?
Yep, can’t wait to get over there and scope out all the poverty; disease; open sewers; bacteria-laden foods; and sweating, illiterate hordes.
If I’m lucky, I may even return with a souvenir in the form of elephantiasis or sleeping sickness.
Sign me up!
I’ve been to Africa.
Every form of nasty parasite known to man is at home their.
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