(MENAFN) Dubai Corporation for Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DCTCM) said that the number of Chinese tourists visiting Dubai registered an increase by 25 percent in 2014 compared with the numbers of the previous year, Xinhua reported.
The corporation said that in 2013, a total of 275.675 visitors from China came to Dubai, adding that Dubai hopes to increase this number as it is preparing to host the World Expo in 2020 as the first Arab city to do so, with the emirate seeking to attract 20 million tourists to the event.
"We started to give more Chinese access to Dubai by sea as we recently enabled multiple entry visas for Chinese nationals who plan cruise ship holidays in the Middle East," Dubai Corporation for Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DCTCM) said.
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