A total of 241,000 Chinese tourists visited Dubai in the first half of 2015, a 25 percent increase year on year, a senior UAE tourism official said on Wednesday.
This increase confirms the growing partnership between China and Dubai, Issam Kazim, CEO of the Dubai Corporation for Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DCTCM), told a media briefing.
As many as 200,000 Chinese expatriates live in Dubai, Kazim noted.
Dubai's official tourism body DCTCM runs four offices in China in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chengdou, he said.
In 2014, Dubai attracted 13 million visitors. By 2020, this number is expected to rise to 20 million tourists, Kazim pointed out.
