Overseas Chinese spending slows due to anti-corruption drive, hitting resorts and tourism
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [China Daily] Nov. 25, 2014
As a graduate student in Australia six years ago, Liu Jingping moonlighted at a Chinese restaurant where many Chinese government officials on "work trips" would dine.
They would order lobster and other expensive seafood that they washed down with baijiu, the fiery, sorghum-based Chinese liquor.
But such overseas government trips are a thing of the past amid Beijing's anti-graft and austerity campaigns, which are reverberating far beyond its shores, said Liu, 34, now a tourism analyst and part-time tour guide.
The China-dependent sector of the global tourism industry has been hurting...
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