Canada pulls out all the stops to woo more Chinese tourists

Chinese outbound tourism to Canada surged nearly 29 percent to 450,000 visitors last year.

And it rose to more than 30 percent in the first two months of this year compared with the same period in 2014, the Canadian Tourism Commission says.

The number of Chinese visitors is expected to further increase since China and Canada started issuing reciprocal multiple-entry visas for business, travel and family visits from March 9, Minister of State for Small Business and Tourism Maxime Bernier says. The longest validity for such visas is 10 years.