🇨🇳 East Asia · China
China Outbound Tourism Dashboard
Compare Chinese tourist arrivals across 12 Asia-Pacific destinations. Each destination uses its latest available 2026 reporting period and the corresponding 2025 period supplied by its tourism authority.
Departures 2025
167.92 Million
Chinese outbound departures
Departures 2019
169.20 Million
Chinese outbound departures
Fastest growing destination (YOY)
🇵🇭 Philippines
+93.4% · Jan–Aug 2026
Top decliner (YOY)
🇯🇵 Japan
-55.5% · Jan–Sep 2026
Latest Tourism Summary — September 2026
Generated automatically from the destination data on this dashboard. Monthly China-level figures are not available.
Latest Reporting Period
- The most recent 2026 data runs to September (Thailand, Vietnam, Japan, Mauritius).
- Other destinations report through earlier months, so each comparison uses its own matching 2025 period.
Combined Destination Totals
- Across 12 Asia-Pacific destinations, Chinese arrivals reached 53.20M in the latest 2026 periods, up 2.6% on the same periods of 2025 (51.83M).
- Excluding Hong Kong, the total was 24.46M (-7.0%).
Destination Movement
- Hong Kong remained the largest destination with 28.73M arrivals.
- Philippines grew fastest at +93.4%; Hong Kong and South Korea added the most visitors in absolute terms.
- Japan (-55.5%), Cambodia (-25.1%) declined.
Market Takeaway
- 10 of 12 destinations recorded more Chinese visitors than a year earlier.
- Full-year outbound departures were 167.92 million in 2025, compared with 169.20 million in 2019 (-0.8%), leaving Chinese outbound travel just below pre-pandemic levels.
China outbound APAC comparison
Tourist counts and calculated percentage difference; rows are ranked by 2026 arrivals
| Country | Period | 2025 tourists | 2026 tourists | % difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hong Kong | Jan–Aug | 25,527,444 | 28,731,564 | +12.6% |
| South Korea | Jan–Aug | 3,733,606 | 4,816,134 | +29.0% |
| Vietnam | Jan–Sep | 3,893,965 | 3,953,429 | +1.5% |
| Thailand | Jan–Sep | 3,417,326 | 3,935,434 | +15.2% |
| Malaysia | Jan–Aug | 3,258,817 | 3,696,688 | +13.4% |
| Japan | Jan–Sep | 7,487,508 | 3,335,500 | -55.5% |
| Singapore | Jan–Aug | 2,290,888 | 2,398,212 | +4.7% |
| Indonesia | Jan–Aug | 905,002 | 1,054,007 | +16.5% |
| Cambodia | Jan–Aug | 784,965 | 588,051 | -25.1% |
| Taiwan | Jan–Jul | 364,668 | 369,048 | +1.2% |
| Philippines | Jan–Aug | 156,926 | 303,567 | +93.4% |
| Mauritius | Jan–Sep | 11,129 | 13,637 | +22.5% |
Source of data: Destination national tourism organisations, compiled in the supplied China outbound APAC dataset. All listed destinations use like-for-like reporting periods for 2025 and 2026.