双语：中国成为世界最大旅游消费国

2013-04-10 00:00:00来源：大耳朵英语

　　A woman from China at a duty-free store that offers new Mandarin-speaking personal shopper service at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany, Nov. 14, 2012.

　　MADRID/FRANKFURT, April 4, (Reuters) - Chinese tourists have overtaken Germans as the world"s biggest-spending travellers after a decade of robust growth in the number of Chinese holidaying abroad, the United Nations World Tourism Organisation

　　(UNWTO) said on Thursday.

　　Chinese tourists, known for travelling in organised tours and snapping up luxury fashion

　　abroad, spent $102 billion on foreign trips last year, outstripping deep-pocketed travellers from Germany and the United States.

　　Chinese tourists spent 41 percent more on foreign travel in 2012 than the year before,

　　beating the close to $84 billion both German and U.S. travellers parted with last year.

　　Tourists from other fast-growing economies with swelling middle classes, like Russia and Brazil, also increased spending in 2012. In recession-hit Europe, however, French and Italian tourists reined in their holiday budgets.

　　"The impressive growth of tourism expenditure from China and Russia reflects the entry into the tourism market of a growing middle class from these countries," said UNWTO

　　Secretary-General Taleb Rifai.

　　The German Travel Association (DRV) said it was to be expected that the Chinese would eventually overtake Germans in terms of spending, given that the country had more inhabitants than North America, Russia and Europe put together.

　　"But that they have overtaken us already is astonishing," DRV president Juergen Buechy said.

　　The Chinese make more long-haul trips than Germans, who typically go to Mediterranean destinations, meaning that the average spend per holiday was greater, he added.

　　路透社马德里/法兰克福4月4日联合国世界旅游组织(UNWTO)周四表示，过去十年中国海外游客人数激增，中国游客现在已超越德国游客成为世界上最大的旅游消费群体。

　　以组团旅行并在海外抢购奢侈品而闻名的中国游客去年的海外旅行开支高达1,020亿美元，超越荷包殷实的德国和美国的游客。

　　中国游客2012年的海外旅行开支比前年多出41%，而德国和美国游客去年的开支分别接近840亿美元。

　　来自俄罗斯、巴西等经济发展迅速、中产阶级不断扩大的经济体的游客2012年的旅行开支也有增加。但深受经济衰退影响的欧洲，比如法国和意大利的游客则控制了他们的旅行预算。

　　UNWTO秘书长瑞法依(Taleb Rifai)表示：“中国和俄罗斯旅行消费的大幅增加反映出这些国家有越来越多的中产阶级进入旅游市场。”

　　德国旅游协会(DRV)表示，该组织预计，有鉴于中国公民比北美、俄罗斯和欧洲全部人口还要多，因而以总支出计，中国超过德国只是时间问题。

　　DRV主席Juergen Buechy表示：“但他们现在的消费就已超过我们，让我们感到很震惊。”

　　他又补充道，中国人相较德国人更愿意长途旅行，这就意味着其平均每个假期的开支更大。德国人一般选择地中海作为出行目的地。

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