National Day travelers go to new destinations

Some 6 million Chinese tourists will travel abroad for the upcoming National Day holiday, with more destinations emerging as new favorites, travel business operators and experts said on Wednesday.

"Chinese tourists no longer only select traditional hot journey places such as Thailand, the United States and Japan to spend their holidays. Countries such as Kenya, Morocco, New Zealand and Peru have all become a new attraction," said Jiang Yiyi, director of the International Tourism Research Institute with the China Tourism Academy.

Shanghai-based Ctrip.com International Ltd, a Nasdaq-listed travel agency, predicted in a recent report that 650 million Chinese will travel in the eight-day Golden Week holiday from Oct 1 to 8, among whom about 6 million will choose to go abroad, setting a record.