cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/62620960
The Chinese travel and tourism economy grew 9.9% last year, more than twice the global rate and much faster than the 0.9% pace registered by the US, according to new data by the World Travel & Tourism Council, a trade group, and lead research partner Chase Travel.
It’s not a perfect analog, but I mean it’s still 1 place, whereas mainland China is a million diverse places.
Comparing Iceland to the entirety of Europe would fit too. It’s an interesting place, but if someone said they would rather go to Iceland than an entire continent, you’d assume either the person saying it was a huge fan of something that existed only in iceland, or didn’t understand the scale and diversity of the places they’re talking about.
Not necessarily, there are different types of travellers. Some people like packing many destinations into a short time and some prefer to spend more time on one place. We’re pretty far off the original topic now though because not visiting China has nothing to do with the diversity or size of it but because the CCP is an authoritarian regime who can go fuck themselves. I’d like to go back to Europe sometime though.