BOFIT Viikkokatsaus / BOFIT Weekly Review 2016/20
The top destinations for Chinese are countries in East and Southeast Asia, Europe and North America. The Chinese typically travel in groups and often purchase luxury products. Chinese are expected to travel even more in coming years as the country grows more affluent.
Finland’s national tourism promotion board “Visit Finland” reports that the number of Chinese visitors arriving in Finland last year exceeded 500,000, or about a third more than in 2014. The Chinese were the fourth largest tourist group after Russians, Swedes and Estonians, and the second biggest spenders after Russians. Chinese arriving in Finland as transfer passengers at the airport make up a third of Chinese tourists, but the number of overnight stays by Chinese travellers also increased some 40 % last year.