{"id":98881155,"date":"2011-04-12T14:09:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T14:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/china-eclipses-spain-as-the-world-s-third-largest-tourism-destination\/"},"modified":"2018-10-05T11:14:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T15:14:04","slug":"china-eclipses-spain-as-the-world-s-third-largest-tourism-destination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/china-eclipses-spain-as-the-world-s-third-largest-tourism-destination\/","title":{"rendered":"China Eclipses Spain as the World\u2019s Third Largest Tourism Destination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China has eclipsed Spain to become the world\u2019s third largest tourism destination, according to new numbers from the United Nations Tourism Organization.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>55.7 million tourists made the trip to China last year. The United States remained at number one in 2010, drawing 78.95 million visitors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>France finished second, welcoming 60.88 million people on the year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While Spain drew fewer tourists than China, it did attract a larger volume of big spenders. The nation raked in an impressive $52.5 billion in tourism revenue, finishing behind only the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breakingtravelnews.com\/news\/article\/china-overtakes-spain-to-become-worlds-third-largest-tourism-destination\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">BTN <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has eclipsed Spain to become the world\u2019s third largest tourism destination, according to new numbers from the United Nations Tourism Organization. &nbsp; 55.7 million tourists made the trip to China last year. The United States remained at number one in 2010, drawing 78.95 million visitors. &nbsp; France finished second, welcoming 60.88 million people on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98881155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98881155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98896962,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881155\/revisions\/98896962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98881155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98881155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98881155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}