Tourist arrival between 1995 and 2003 grew from a total of 4,860 to 138,622.
In 2010, the number of the foreign tourist arrivals is about 14 million.
In 2007 international tourist arrivals to China increased to 54.7 million.
In 2000, there are about 5.5 million foreign tourist arrivals.
The forecast number of tourist arrival for 2013 is 1 million.
There had been a record 9,300,000 tourist arrivals in 1990.
And tourist arrivals declined 11 percent in the first 10 months of the year.
In 2007, Tourist arrivals from all countries of origin were up.
Tourist arrivals this year rose above eight million for the first time since the middle of the last decade.
This is out of the 12.8 million tourist arrivals recorded for 2001, which was a 25% increase from 2000.