Chinese Mainland is expected to reach 17.2 millions outbound travelers in the next 6 months.

It is predicted a slowdown in growth of outbound travel across the Asia Pacific in the first six months of 2007. Out of 13 markets, leading the growth is Chinese Mainland whose number of outbound travelers is expected to reach 17.2 millions in the first half of this year.

Chinese Mainland, Malaysia and Thailand are experiencing the highest year-on-year growth, their growth rates of outbound travel are 12 percent, 7.8 percent and 7.2 percent respectively, while that of most markets in the Asia Pacific have dropped.

Markets seeing the greatest slowdown in the rate of growth in outbound travel are Hong Kong, Korea and Malaysia.

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