Chinese tourists are expected to make over 200 million trips by 2020; three times more than tourists from the US. But how are Chinese tastes affecting the world’s most expensive hotel rooms? What can hotels do to make these tourists feel welcome on their first trips abroad?

Putting old clichés to rest, Chinese tourists now are embracing independent travel – with 62% saying they’d sooner leave tour groups behind. But how is Qunar, China’s most popular travel site, helping these more adventurous travellers work out where they’d like to visit?

Ping-pong was once the poster sport of the Chinese Communist Party – but today, Chinese people would sooner shoot hoops or drive the fairways. Beyond simple health and fitness, like everything in China, sport has become an issue of status and politics.

After becoming the world’s largest bloc of outbound travellers in 2012, 97% of wealthy Chinese people intend to go shopping when they travel. And 90% of them carry out extensive amounts of research on what and where to purchase before they’ve even left home.