From January to November in 2014, travel agents of the whole province organize a total of 1,113,000 tourists going abroad, increasing 65.1% accumulatively.
Thailand, as the “back garden of Chengdu”, ushered in 258,600 visitors from Sichuan, ranking the first, and followed by Hong Kong, Macau, Korea and Japan.
Statistics show that more than 60,000 Sichuan tourists went to Japan in 2014, increasing the greatest for 387.66 % and followed by the United Kingdom, South Korea, Thailand, and the United States.
Malaysia became the only one overseas destination that experienced the reduction, decreasing by 16.26%. Insiders believe that this phenomenon is related to the incidents of losing contact with the aircraft happened last year in Malaysia.