The 2008 Olympics in Beijing will be instrumental in boosting the number of tourists visiting China. The world’s most populous nation is rapidly becoming a much-preferred tourist destination, having completely recovered from the signs of a slowdown in 2003 and 2004 caused by the SARS outbreak.

A new report has revealed that tourism in China has outstripped the GDP growth rate since 1990. It finds that China is now Asia’s largest outbound tourist source nation, having outranked Japan, the previous leader in the Asia-Pacific region.

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