Up and away: Chinese tourism

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① Today the world's largest travel show, ITB Berlin, opens its second event in China.

② Some大约 15,000 attendees from travel firms across the globe are expected to descend on Shanghai 造访上海, where the gathering is taking place.

③ Airlines, hotels and travel agents are eager to grab a slice of 分一杯羹 China's booming 快速发展的 outbound travel 出国游 market.

④ The number of Chinese going abroad on holiday has rocketed 飙升 in the past decade, from 41m a year to over 130m.

⑤ That number is likely to rise further still.

⑥ The chief executive of Ctrip, a travel giant based in Shanghai, predicts that the number of Chinese who hold passports will double by 2020.

⑦ But it is easy to get burned riding this tourism dragon.

⑧ Western cruise lines邮轮公司—which have launched a flotilla船队，小型舰队 of ships to chase a Chinese market that was growing at 80% a year—are hurting now that passenger numbers are forecast预测 to shrink减少 by 15% in 2018.

▍补充

1. descend on

I'm sorry to descend on you without calling you in advance.

2. boom

The leisure industry is booming.

property boom

This year has seen a boom in book sales.

baby boom

3. “飙升”和“上升”

飙升 rocket/surge/soar/escalate

上升 increase/rise/climb