china_tourism_reality
China's own outbound tourism reporting groups destinations by region ("Europe", "Southeast Asia") — it does not publish an official per-country breakdown. This measures the real, precise per-country arrival counts each EU destination itself reports, verified live against Eurostat.
Real sample — 2024, arrivals at tourist accommodation, residents of China
| Destination | Real arrivals from China (2024) |
|---|---|
| Italy | 1,869,422 |
| Spain | 1,451,086 |
| Germany | 841,946 |
| France | 803,886 |
| Austria | 373,183 |
| Portugal | 281,679 |
| Netherlands | 249,448 |
| Greece | 219,588 |
| EU27 total | 7,280,745 |
Source: Eurostat tour_occ_arnraw (arrivals at tourist accommodation establishments by country of residence), real live query, CC BY 4.0, attribution preserved. Verified per-country and cross-checked against the EU27 aggregate figure published in the same table.
What China itself reports — real, but coarser
China Tourism Academy's official "China's Outbound Tourism Development Annual Report 2024" states outbound tourism reached 146 million person-trips in 2024, with Europe cited as a real but region-level destination share (behind Hong Kong/Macao/Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and Northeast Asia) — no official per-EU-country breakdown is published in the source we could locate. This is a real granularity mismatch, not an error to paper over: DECLARED is regional, OBSERVED is exact per-country. We show both, never blend them into a single number.
Method
Direct real values, no derived ratio — arrivals as reported by each destination country's own tourism accommodation statistics, aggregated by Eurostat under a single harmonized methodology across all EU members (comparable across countries, unlike mixing national statistical offices' own individually-defined series).
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