绝对爱玩的中国人

绝对爱玩的中国人

随着中国千禧一代跃升入中产阶层，到2025年，中国游客境外支出规模将超过德英法三国的国际旅游者总和。

测试中可能遇到的词汇和知识：

swell 膨胀；肿胀；隆起[swel]

materialize 物质化；突然出现[mə'tiəriəlaiz]

fillip 刺激；弹指['fɪlɪp]

cohort 步兵大队；支持者['kəʊhɔːt]

itinerary 路线；旅行日程[aɪ'tɪn(ə)(rə)rɪ; ɪ-] dine|进餐，用餐[daɪn]

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如果您读完全文用时为： 那么，您的阅读速度相当于 每分钟阅读的英文单词数

3分17秒 母语为英语者的朗读速度 140

2分31秒 母语为英语的中学生的阅读速度 250

1分30秒 母语为英语的大学生的阅读速度 350

0分52秒 母语为英语的速读高手 1000

Chinese tourist spending heads sky-high （528 words）

By James Kynge

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Chinese international travellers, swelled by a wave of individualistic millennials joining the middle class, are likely to be spending more on their trips overseas by 2025 than their counterparts from Germany, the UK and France combined, a report has found.

The rise to such dominance over the international travel market will expand revenues from Chinese travellers in 2025 to a total of $255.4bn, up 86 per cent from $137bn last year, according to research by Oxford Economics, a consultancy, and Visa, the payments company.

If such projections materialise, China’s outbound travel market will be almost twice as large in 2025 as that of the US, which is likely to generate $134bn in traveller spending in 2025, up from an actual $101bn last year, according to the report.

Wayne Best, chief economist at Visa Inc, said that the ease of overseas travel will receive a fillip from some 340 new airports that are expected to be built over the next decade. Similarly, internet connectivity makes it easier for potential travellers to book their itineraries and check out what attractions look like before they commit to the expense. An ageing global population will also see more silver-haired travellers hitting the road.

“Travelling internationally will become more common and attainable in the future thanks to changing demographics, combined with technology advances that make travelling abroad easier and less expensive,” Mr Best said.

The report used Visa’s payments data and blended that with Oxford Economics’ macro projections to estimate 2025 spending patterns. It based its study on households that earn at least $20,000 per year, a cohort it sees as expanding to embrace half of global households — 945m — by 2025 as the middle class in China, Brazil, Russia and other emerging markets swells.

Of these 945m households, some 282m will undertake at least one trip a year in 2025, driving total spending to $1.5tn, up 35 per cent from last year. The study did not include spending on air tickets in its calculations, making the estimates lower than from some other sources.

The World Travel and Tourism Council, for instance, estimates that $215bn was spent by Chinese travellers abroad last year, a 53 per cent jump from a year earlier — considerably higher than the $137bn estimate by Visa and Oxford Economics.

As Chinese travellers intensify their dominance, so the tourism marketplace will come to further reflect their preferences. FT Confidential Research (FTCR), a unit of the Financial Times, found in a survey of preferences this year that more travellers increasingly sought individualised itineraries rather than simply traipsing from tourist trap to tourist trap.

“Our clients go to the opera in Italy, watch the Northern Lights in Scandinavia and dine at Michelin-starred restaurants in Paris,” Wang Yang, chief operating officer of Zanadu, an online travel agency specialising in overseas travel, was quoted by FTCR as saying.

Similarly, Chinese travellers — long famous for high-octane shopping sprees while abroad — are putting much more emphasis on buying experiences rather than goods, according to a survey of more than 1,000 tourists by FTCR. The new breed of traveller is spending more on dining out, a comfortable hotel and high-quality relaxation, the survey found.

请根据你所读到的文章内容，完成以下自测题目：

1. How many times will the America’s outbound travel market be as large as that of China in 2025 according to prediction?

A. a quarter

B. a half

C. twice

D. triple

2. When is the deadline of the projects of 340 new airports by Wayne Best?

A. 2017

B. 2026

C. 2036

D. 2046

3. What is the reason of lower predicted estimates in 2015, comparing with some other sources?

A. lack of spending on air tickets

B. lack of enough time

C. only used Visa’s payments data

D. just be ready for any eventuality

4. What Chinese travelers prefer now while abroad by FTCR as saying?

A. buying experiences

B. goods

C. low price

D. popular trends

[1] 答案 B. a half

解释：根据这份报告，到2025年中国的出境游市场规模将是美国的近两倍，所以美国是中国的一半。

[2] 答案 B. 2026

解释：Visa Inc的首席经济学家韦恩?贝斯特(Wayne Best)表示，下一个十年即2026年之前，预计将修建的大约340个新机场将使境外旅行变得更加便利。

[3] 答案 A. lack of spending on air tickets

解释：该研究没有将机票支出计算在内，这使其估值低于其他来源。

[4] 答案 A. buying experiences

解释：根据FT投资参考对逾1000名旅游者进行的调查，长期以来一直以在境外疯狂购物而出名的中国旅游者如今更加注重购买体验、而非产品。