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2014 China Tourism Facts & Figures

Sizes of Star-rated Hotels and Their Business Statistics in 2014

By end of 2014, 12,037 star-rated hotels (about 94.02% of all star hotels in the database of China National Tourism Administration) submitted operating data and, of these, 11,180 are currently under operation. Among all the 11,180 operating ones, 99 are one-star rated, 2,557 are two-star rated, 5,406 are three-star rated, 2,373 are four-star rated, and 745 are five-star rated. These 11,800 hotels altogether had 1,497,900 rooms and 2,624,800 beds with fixed assets of CNY 500.948 billion. Their total revenue was CNY 215.145 billion: 41.13%, or CNY 88.489 billion, was from affiliated restaurants; and 43.53%, CNY 93.653 billion was from the rooms. Their average room rate was CNY334.80/room/night; average occupancy was 54.00%; the revenue per available room was CNY 181,480, and the revenue per room was CNY 143,630.

The sizes of star hotels and their business statistics in 2014:

	Number of Hotels	Average Room Rate (CNY / Room / Night)	Average Occupancy (%)	Revenue Per Available Room (CNY/ Room/ Night)	Revenue Per Room (CNY 1,000 / Room)
Total	11,180	334.80	54.00	181.48	143.63
5-star	745	678.73	55.00	376.08	293.26
4-Star	2,373	354.86	54.00	194.30	156.10
3-Star	5,406	213.60	53.00	114.39	92.10
2-Star	2,557	160.89	53.00	85.68	62.14
1-Star	99	106.75	49.00	52.75	37.90

The detailed figures of star hotels in some major tourism cities in quarter four:

City	Average Room Rate (CNY / Room / Night)	Average Occupancy (%)	Revenue Per Available Room (CNY / Room / Night)	Revenue Per Room (CNY / Room)
Beijing	525.72	58.35	306.76	58891.96
Tianjin	398.14	51.16	203.70	38245.39
Shanghai	675.58	67.66	457.09	92222.07
Nanjing	373.70	67.97	254.00	57870.89
Suzhou	416.98	57.70	240.61	53770.50
Hangzhou	411.26	60.08	247.08	53432.50
Huangshan	311.11	45.16	140.50	22276.40
Xiamen	459.86	62.78	288.71	50320.69
Qingdao	373.99	54.13	202.44	41974.96
Luoyang	278.39	59.82	166.54	54961.06
Wuhan	390.73	63.74	249.04	42132.72
Zhangjiajie	190.04	49.55	94.17	12810.55
Guangzhou	523.69	66.20	346.68	39703.31
Shenzhen	462.39	69.28	320.33	45426.28
Guilin	211.27	50.82	107.37	17920.81
Sanya	875.36	67.08	587.22	72504.13
Chongqing	347.77	60.93	211.90	38352.59
Chengdu	450.32	58.32	262.65	45576.21
Kunming	351.88	53.30	187.57	31217.09
Lijiang	193.64	50.77	98.30	10276.40
Lhasa	381.71	42.66	162.84	18011.48
Xi'an	328.19	61.50	201.83	36209.25
Urumqi	320.29	49.90	159.82	34919.44
Dalian	304.50	47.85	145.70	27630.81
Harbin	348.75	55.48	193.49	32829.18
Guiyang	368.30	61.63	226.98	36620.08
Lanzhou	339.19	59.01	200.15	31217.45
Shenyang	312.26	52.54	164.07	33931.27
Changchun	332.72	54.91	182.70	33800.39
Yichang	217.23	53.80	116.88	23847.84

Sizes of Travel Services and Their Business Statistics in 2014

According to the China National Tourism Administration, there were 26,650 travel agencies on the mainland by end of 2014 and 26,005 of them submitted operating figures. In the year, they organized 131.2 million domestic tourists, and received 144.6 million. The number of outbound visitors organized by agencies was 39,149,822. For inbound visitors, they organized 14,100,446 and served 20,025,557, a decrease of 2.6% and 2.2% respectively.

Education and Training on Travel and Tourism in 2014

In 2014, there were 565 colleges in China enrolling 533,866 undergradutes to major in tourism manangement; 1,068 colleges enrolling 110,835 high vocational students to study tourism related courses; 147 colleges enrolling both undergraduate and high vocational students to major in tourism courses; and 933 secondary vocational schools receiving 123,000 to learn tourism.

The number of people who received relaveant training was 4,621,300, including 4,287,700 who received in-service training and 333,600 attending degree courses.

Data Source: Ministry of Culture and Tourism of People's Republic of China

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- Last updated on May. 29, 2019 -

Questions & Answers on 2014 China Tourism Facts & Figures

Asked by Mariana Aldrigui Carvalho from BRASIL | Feb. 10, 2016 12:28

How many Brazilians have visited China over the past 3 years

I would also like to know about South Africans

Answers (1)

Answered by Steven from SPAIN | Feb. 13, 2016 19:26

Mariana, I couldn't find the accurate number of Brazilians and South Africans. But the numbers of African are 580,200 in 2015, 596,900 in 2014, and 552,700 in 2013 for your reference.