GRAND CANYON, the United States, May 1 (Xinhua): China will soon overtake Europe to become the top outbound tourist market of the U.S. state of Arizona, tourism officials here have said.
"We expect China to become our number one overseas tourist market by 2025," Scott Dunn, public information officer for the Arizona Tourism Board (ATB), told Xinhua in a recent interview.
Chinese visitors currently lag behind Germany, France and Britain with 81,000 travelers per year to the Grand Canyon, America's prime tourist attraction and one of the seven natural wonders of the world.
"We have seen an increase of 286 percent from 2010 to 2017: a monumental growth from the China market," Dunn said, adding that the number of Chinese tourists to the Grand Canyon soared from 21,972 in 2010 to 81,373 in 2017.
