Development of Tourism
Item	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
Total Number of Travel Agencies (unit)	7326	8993	10532	11552
International Travel Agencies	1256	1268	1310	1349
Domestic Travel Agencies	6070	7725	9222	10203
Number of Staff and Workers of Travel Agencies (person)	108830	164336	192408	229147
International Travel Agencies	47153	68093	72801	89128
Domestic Travel Agencies	61677	96243	119607	140019
Total Number of Tourist Hotels (unit)	7035	10481	7358	8880
Total Number of International Tourist Arrivals to China (10 000 persons)	7279.56	8344.39	8901.29	9790.83	9166.2
Foreigners	843.23	1016.04	1122.64	1343.95	1140.3
Overseas Chinese	10.81	7.55
Compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao	6167.06	7009.93	7434.45	8080.82	7752.7
Compatriots from Taiwan	258.46	310.86	344.20	366.06	273.2
Tourists (Overnight Visitors) (10 000 person-times)	2704.66	3123.60	3316.67	3680.26	3297.1
Total Number of Domestic Residents Outbound (10 000 persons)	923.24	1047.26	1213.44	1660.23	2022.2
For Private Purposes	426.61	563.09	694.67	1007.39	1481.1
Total Number of Domestic Tourists (10 000 persons)	71900	74400	78400	87800	87000
Receipts of Tourism
International Tourism Receipts ( $100 million)	140.99	162.24	177.92	203.85	174.1
Domestic Tourism Receipts (100 million yuan)	2831.92	3175.32	3522.36	3878.36	3442.3
a) Prior to 2000, the total number of tourist hotels is the number of hotels that were authorized to receive foreigners.