Bangkok (dpa) - China, which attracted 49.6 million tourists last year, is expected to become the world's third most popular tourist destination by this year or 2008, the head of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) said Thursday. ...full story at Bangkok Post
from Bangkok Post on Thu, Jun 28 2007
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