TOKYONAIROBILONDONPARISMANILA Alexander Wennberg Jersey , Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- As Chinese Spring Festival has become an opportunity for Chinese people to travel, many tourists are shifting their interest from shopping abroad to multiple choices in celebration of the holiday. They choose foreign countries to experience their exotic culture and services.
Taking the travel to Japan as an example, after "shopping spree" became a catchword of 2015, more and more Chinese tourists prefer buying a physical checkup or experiencing the Japanese culture and services to being obsessed about shopping.
Meng Fanhai, owner of a tourism agency in Tokyo, said his agency arranged more than 200 cases of physical checkups and medical treatments in 2016 Zach Werenski Jersey , up 50 percent from 2015, accounting for about one third of his agency's total Chinese tourists.
Li Xuejing, marketing manager of the agency, said Chinese tourists are getting more willing to experience local culture and characteristic services, including staying in private homes, appreciating bonsai and watching monkeys in hot springs.
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Yang Min, copartner of a tourism agency specializing in receiving Chinese tourists in Kenya, said the country is unfamiliar to most Chinese people in 2005, but since 2010, more and more Chinese tourists have taken the African country as a destination to experience biodiversity there.
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Zhang Renquan, a senior Africa tourism practitioner, said Chinese tourists are gradually getting familiar with African countries besides South Africa and Egypt -- two pillars of Africa tourism-- and experiencing more programs including safari, diving and parachuting.
Chinese tourist Guo, who is taking a vacation on an island in the Philippines, said now she pays more attention to relaxation and enjoyment during holidays instead of shopping or choosing gifts for relatives as she did years ago.
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