UK counts on $1.2b bounty from Chinese

Britain's tourism authority predicts spending by Chinese visitors will reach 1 billion pounds ($1.22 billion) in 2020, up from 657 million pounds in 2018, on an expected surge in arrivals from the key market.

According to VisitBritain, the country hosted 69,000 visits from China in the first three months of this year, up 1 percent from what had been a record first quarter for Chinese arrivals last year. Visitors spent a record 123 million pounds, a jump of 28 percent from the year-earlier period.

The report from flight analyst ForwardKeys shows arrivals by air from China between September and November are on course to be 23 percent up on the same period last year.