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August 4, 2017 · 12:24 pm

Chinese tourists don’t just duty-free shop in the U.S.: They also invest in real estate ($100 billion in 2016)

Wealthy Chinese family searching a home in the U.S. - China Elite Focus The number of Chinese tourists traveling the globe has increased significantly for the last ten years, making them the largest group of travelers in the world. Now, thanks in part to a recent agreement between the U.S. and China to extend visas for short-term business travelers, tourists and students, the U.S. could see an increase in Chinese travelers in the near future.

This trend is supported by research from the latest Chinese International Travel Monitor (CITM) from Hotels.com which reveals the U.S. is the second most popular destination for Chinese travelers to visit in the next 12 months (behind France), with popular U.S. landmarks like the Grand Canyon and the Statue of Liberty topping travel wish lists.
The CITM research also identifies that, while cities in Asia Pacific remain the most popular (82 percent of Chinese travelers have visited in the past 12 months), visitors to Europe and America have increased with a year over year growth of 25 percent and 11 percent, respectively. These destinations were particularly popular with millennial travelers, with 42 percent visiting Europe and 29 percent visiting America in the past 12 months.

“The CITM reveals that the United States is one of the top five countries Chinese travelers visit the most,” said Josh Belkin, vice president and GM of the Hotels.com brand. “With tens of thousands of places to stay across the U.S., like distinctive boutiques, spacious vacation rentals and familiar chains, our site and mobile app have the perfect places for Chinese travelers of all ages and lifestyles.”

In 2016, there were 122 million outbound Chinese tourists – four percent more than in 2015 and a massive 74 percent more than in 2011, when the first CITM was published. China is already the largest source of international travelers for many countries – despite the fact only 10 percent of the population had passports in 2016.

“Chinese travelers in the United States tend to be more affluent than those who choose other destinations”, said Pierre Gervois, CEO of China Elite Focus Magazines LLC and Founder of the STC magazine, a luxury travel digital publication in Chinese Mandarin. “Real Estate investment in the United States is now the #1 real reason – and rarely stated in surveys – for affluent and wealthy Chinese outbound travelers, as they have acquired for $100 billion in U.S. Real Estate in 2016”

Source: CITM, hotels.com, STC magazine, Chinese Tourists Blog

Wealthy Chinese buy cash U.S. houses

China’s rich people everywhere to buy a house in the world is not something new, near New York’s Long Island has become an extremely attractive to Chinese buyers eye, already circulating in the New York real estate agent if the buyer is the Chinese people, which transactions is certainly no problem to say. New York and even the nation’s real estate market in recent years has been stagnant, the Americans lending capacity is also getting worse, turned out to Chinese buyers at this time, New York real estate brokerage lifted from China in January, a buyer bought a value of $ 12 million mansion on Long Island, and to draw up the contract within 12 days and paid in cash, real estate broker in charge of the deal Dalia said she Although surprised but also think that is reasonable, because in the past two years, she has more and more exposure to overseas buyers from China, she also said that in 4-5 years ago, Chinese buyers are usually looking for Chinese real estate Business buy a house, she met directly with the translation to come to the U.S. real estate direct purchase customers.
Engaged in real estate transactions lawyer also said the general to buy a house rich in China is divided into two categories, one is the investment in children’s education, a class of investment real estate, whether tourists or buy a house off from China and lavish features have been astounding, the Chinese people to become the first in the world in the global luxury goods purchasing power, also emerge in the world real estate, so that we can not help but think that the next buy, what is it.