According to the international standard, if the amount of senior citizens above 60 years old counts for 10 percent in a country, then this would be definitely a aging country. At the end of 2009, there were 167 million senior citizens above 60 years old in China according to statistics, which accounts for 12.5 percent of total population, and during the “12th Five Year Plan”, this number will accounts for above 200 million and more than 15 percent of Chinese people. 2025 will be 400 million and 2050 will get to 440 million, which means one in three people will be senior citizen.
Facing this huge amount of potential clients, every travel service see the extraordinary chance. The Senior Citizen Tourism is different from the normal one, so China have to make some service regulation for this special group. Why do I use the “special” word? Cause they have money and leisure time, and mostly they are longing for a tour.
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