World Tourism Organization predicted that China will become the world’s largest tourist destination and the fourth largest source of visitors by the year 2020. Despite the impacts of SARS, natural disasters and terrorist activities in recent years, The number of visitors at the world record in 2005. Where the number of tourists in the Asia-Pacific region by 7 percent, while in China rose 13 percent.
The Xinhua News Agency quoted Chinese State Bureau of Statistics Chua Zi Wei as saying that the objective of tourism development in China in the next five years is to reach an annual rate of increase in the number of visitors coming to China and 8 percent annual rate of increase in international tourism revenue and 12 percent increase in the number of tourists within the China’s 8 percent increase in tourism revenue in China 10 percent.