The important  newspaper in China “ China Daily” published  that more  than 57 million Chinese tourists are expected to travel abroad in 2011, spending a staggering US$55 billion ( around 46 Mrd Euro), the China Tourism Academy, a think tank to the tourism authorities, said in a report .

According to the annual report, the Blue Book of China’s Tourism Economy (2010-2011), the travel boom will send 3 million more Chinese travellers abroad in 2011 than last year, with a larger amount of outbound tourist spending.

‘China remains Asia’s largest source of outbound tourists as the number of outbound travelers continues to soar,’ said Dai Bin, head of the academy.

The flourishing outbound tourism market is sending the wealth of China’s well-heeled tourists beyond the country’s borders.

The report said it is estimated that last year income from 132 million inbound tourists in China reached US$46 billion, while the 54 million Chinese outbound travelers spent US$48 billion aboard.  ’There was definitely a deficit in tourism service trade in 2010,’ Mr Dai said.

Mr. Dai has forecastet in a discussion with Joachim Fischer, Tourism-Insider, in Guangzhou, that  110 Million foreigners come to visit China in the  future and 210 Million  Chinese tourists will go abroad in the near future. He expected this numbers in the next five years. He also thinks that the world including Europe is not prepared jet to handle the special needs of Chinese tourists