As of November this year, the inbound tourism market in Anhui Province has registered continued growth. Between January and November, the Province has attracted a total of 1.2572 million inbound tourists, up 27.76% year on year，accomplishing the whole year%26rsquo;s tourism objective in advance. Among these inbound tourists are 871,200 foreign tourists, a year-on-year increase of 27.29% and contributing 326 million U.S. dollars of foreign exchange earnings, an increase of 27.79% year on year. In terms of nationalities of tourists, the biggest upsurge is seen in the number of European tourists with a year-on-year growth rate of 30.60%, of which tourists from Germany, UK and France all exceeded 25,000 and stood at 29,100, 27,800 and 26,200 respectively, up 28.85%, 32.53% and 12.47% respectively year on year. Visitors from the American continent amounted to 89,700, up 20.46% year on year, of which U.S. visitors accounted for 71,400, up 25.77% year on year; Asian visitors soared to 619,100, up 27.86% year on year with rapid growth witnessed in mainstream markets like South Korea and Japan, as some 407,000 Korean tourists came, up 27.60% year on year and Japanese tourists reached 102,700, up 27.84% year on year.
According to monitoring data obtained from key tourist attractions in Anhui Province, the number of tourists saw a steady increase in November. The 41 key sites received a total of 1.863 million tourists in November, a year-on-year growth rate of 11.3%, with ticket sales at 88 million yuan, up 5.78% year on year; the aggregate number of tourists in Anhui Province between January and November reached 26.5715 million, up 9.18% year on year, with the total ticket sales reaching 1.217 billion yuan, up 6.34% year on year. Seven tourist destinations received more than one million tourists, namely Jiuhuashan Mountain, Zheshan Ecological Park, Huangshan Mountain, FantaWild Adventure, Tianzhu Mountain, Bali River and Huating Lake, of which Huangshan Mountain, FantaWild Adventure and Jiuhuashan Mountain achieved ticket sales of over 100 million yuan.
