Chinese Tourists for LA

Let's be a green host to the coming stream of Chinese visitors... How can we mobilize our hospitality to exchange green information and solutions with these influential guests?

Looking for the Chinese tourist

The Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau has opened the first city-level tourism office in Beijing. The city is home to America's second largest population of Chinese Americans.

Of 1.3 million people in China, and estimated 176 million have the resources to travel abroad. Last year 86,000 Chinese visited Los Angeles, making it the fastest-growing market segment for Los Angeles tourism.

Los Angeles is the only city in America served by all three Chinese national carriers, Air China, China Southern and China Eastern, and has 19 weekly nonstops from Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.

The vast majority of outbound China tourists travel to nations adjacent to their home province.