ASIAN TOURIST ARRIVALS TO SPAIN MAINTENAIN INCREASING TREND.

      According to surveys on tourism movements from the Ministry of industry, energy and tourism, Frontur, Spain has registered an increase of 65.8% in travelers from China, while Japanese tourism has risen by 27%.

    Japan continues to be the origin of most Asian tourists visiting Spain, which received 475,000 Japanese tourists, 289.000 Chinese and 167,000 South Koreans in 2014. Our country occupies the fifth place in the preferences of Japanese tourists and the fifteenth for the Chinese.

     The experts who participated in the IV International Congress on Asian Tourism, held in Barcelona, agree that the number of trips from the Asian markets will continue to increase in 2016.

According to Wolfgang Arlt, director of the China Outbound Tourism Research Institute, Asian tourists value having experiences that can boast to his return to the visit more monuments. For this reason, it is important to explain the experiences that will live in your visit to our country.

     It is also important to know and observe the peculiarities of the Asian culture. Head first to the elder of the group, the man rather than the woman, do not look directly into the eyes, are behaviors that are shocking in Europe and yet facilitate that Asian tourists to feel comfortable when visiting our country.

Shopping is one of the activities preferred by Asian tourists, especially Chinese, who buy by tradition and values the acquisition of brands in place of origin: Gucci in Italy, Louis Vouiton in France, Loewe in Barcelona…

Gift forms part of the cultural tradition in Asia, wrapping, bows, the details will help enhance the status of the person who gives.