Showing posts with label china. Show all posts
Showing posts with label china. Show all posts

Saturday, July 14, 2007

chinese tourists






so I was reading this article in the NYTIMES about the wulingyuan national park with all of these amazing sandstone pillars. they talk about increasing chinese tourism. with about with 1.2 billion people, and an increasing percentage of the population migrating to cities and becoming wealthier and more educated, I'm willing to bet that at some point there are going to be hoards of freakin chinese tourists running around the world. yea I know what you're thinkin. I was thinking it too...there's going to be a lot of freakin digital camera devices and goofy visors sold when that happens. you thought the japanese tour in hoards, well japan ain't got nothin on china!!!

so it's no mystery that the tourism industry is going to boom when the chinese boom, but where the heck are they all going to visit?!! williamsburg (I can't imagine the chinese taking pictures of trust fund hipsters at vintage stores)?? Chi-town (shit it's way too cold there)? London (i'm pretty sure that tiny country couldn't fit 1.2 billion people...ha!!)???