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Home»Uncategorized»China’s ‘Selfie’ Generation | Drives Next Tourism Wave
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China’s ‘Selfie’ Generation | Drives Next Tourism Wave

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BEJING: A new wave of young, adventurous, tech-savvy tourists from China are heading overseas and the Pacific region is being urged to find out what makes them tick. Chinese tourism experts say independent millennials will drive China’s outbound tourism boom in years to come and operators need to get ready.

The post-80s generation of Chinese, brought up in one child families under former Chinese leader Deng Xiao Ping’s open door policy, are driving the flow, according to Cheng Mingming, Lecturer in Tourism at the University of Otago.

These well-educated, well-off urbanites are China’s first generation to be able to travel freely and they behave quite differently from the typical package tourist of the past, he says.

The millennials are keen to explore and find the next big backdrop for their selfies, according to Dr Cheng.

“They want to say ‘I’m different’ and they want to show ‘I can do this'”, he said.

Prestige and the ability to “showcase their personality” were key to how and where they travelled, he said.

Dr Cheng was among speakers at a conference, China’s New Tourists: New Zealand and the Year of Chinese Tourism organised by the New Zealand Contemporary China Research Centre.

A slowdown in China’s economy would equate to a downshift in the growth of Chinese outbound tourism but numbers heading abroad would still be high, according to Professor Song Haiyan, Professor of Tourism at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

“Last year the total of outbound tourists was 130 million and in the next five years will increase to 150 million (per year). According to our research the next phase will be mainly travelling to long-haul destinations – Europe, United States, New Zealand, Australia,” he said.

Seventy percent of independent outbound tourists were in the 25 to 34 age bracket and, on average, they head abroad about three times a year, according to Song Rui of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a Chinese government think tank.

“For the young generation, they are enjoying their life by travelling. Travel is very important to their lives,” she said.

About 60 percent of these free independent tourists are single women, travelling in small groups, she said.

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