CHONGQING (CQNEWS) -- As the National Day holiday approaches, the peak of foreign currency exchange for outbound tourism appears. Recently, Ctrip, an Internet currency exchange platform, released the “National Day Holiday Foreign Currency Exchange Report”. The departure cities ranking shows that Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou are Top 3. The foreign currency exchange amount of Chongqing people increases, making Chongqing rank Top 4. 

According to the foreign currency exchange for departure cities, Top 10 cities are Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Xiamen, Kunming, Wuhan, Tianjin, Dalian and Zhengzhou.

According to the foreign currency exchange orders on Ctrip, the turnover of yen, THB and U.S. dollar ranks Top 3, which are the most popular currency during this National Day holiday.

Compared with the National Day holiday in previous years, the turnover of pound has increased sharply to 93% by September 20, 2019, and is expected to double that of 2018. With the current exchange rate strength of pound and this long National Day holiday, more people are visiting the UK in 2019. Europe is also a popular outbound tourism destination, with a great increase in exchange amount of euro, which indicates that Chinese tourists have much enthusiasm for Europe this year. Southeast Asian countries continue to be the focus of outbound tourism. The currency exchanges amount is up more than 40% in Vietnam and Malaysia.

For per customer transaction of Chinese tourists among Top 10 foreign currencies, per capita consumption exceeds RMB 4,000 and the highest over RMB 7,000. Australian dollar, Canadian dollar and pound are Top 3, with a per capita consumption of RMB 7,820, RMB 7,549 and RMB 7,422 respectively. The per capita consumption of Swiss franc, U.S. Dollar and euro exceeds RMB 6,000. For yen, the most popular foreign currency, the per capita exchange amount is RMB 4,411.

In addition, Chinese tourists are attracted by more and more unexpected countries. Currency exchange demand for these countries is also increasing. According to the data, more than 40 foreign currencies are available for pre-order withdrawal. During this National Day holiday, foreign currencies exchange for these unexpected countries include Sri Lankan rupee, Norwegian krone, Swedish krona, Czech koruna, Turkish lira, South African rand, Danish krone, Mexican peso, Brazilian real and Hungarian forint. (Translated by Mao Qiao, Fathom Language Limited)