Outbound Chinese tourists to exceed 600 million in five years: CNTA
China National Tourism Administration (CNTA) expects that over 600 million Chinese tourists will travel overseas in the next five years. Increasing disposable income and relaxed visa policies have helped to drive up numbers heading abroad in the past decade, making China the world's largest exporter of tourists in 2015, when around 120 million Chinese tourists travelled overseas, up from 109 million in 2014. More than 69 million Chinese travellers venture outside of their home nation in H1 2016.

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Over 600 million Chinese tourists will travel abroad in the next five years, according to data from China National Tourism Administration (CNTA).

In the first half of the year, China's outbound tourists reached over 59 million, according to CNTA data.

Thanks to relaxed visa policies and rising disposable income, the number of China's outbound tourists has kept growing in the past decade.

China had the world's largest number of outbound tourists in 2015. About 120 million Chinese traveled overseas in 2015, up from 109 million the previous year, according to the CNTA.

This was an increase of 19.5 percent year on year and nearly 13 times the level in 1998, said the CNTA.

Meanwhile, China's booming domestic tourism market saw over 4 billion journeys in 2015, generating tourism revenue of over 4 trillion yuan (620 billion U.S. dollars).