With the improvement of living standards of the Chinese people, Chinese citizens have been able to go abroad as tourists since 1997. China has now approved 52 countries and 2 regions as tourism destinations. China received 91.66 million overseas tourists in 2003；Foreign exchange from international tourism reached US$17.4 billion. A total of 20.22 million Chinese citizens went abroad in 2003. Of this total, 14.81 million were on private visits. accounting for 73.2 per cent of all out—going visitors．According to the World Tourism Organization，China is among the top 10 nations in terms of outbound tourism．Travelling abroad was only a dream for most Chinese 25 years ago．But it is coming true for many more today thanks to a booming economy and more freedom and rights．Enhancing mutual understanding through opening up more countries to Chinese visitors will create benefit for all．The year 2003 saw 870 million domestic tourists．Income from domestic tourism stood at 344.2 billion yuan(US$41.47 billion)．The total international and domestic tourism chalked up to 488．2 billion yuan(US$58.87 billion)，accounting for 4 per cent of China’s GDP in 2003．
China, direct employees in tourism industry reached 6.4874 million；while indirect employees topped 32．44 million．
      Star-rating hotels in China reached 9,751 with 992,800 guest rooms by the end of 2003. Of those hotels，198 are five—star hotels；727 four—star hotels, 3.166 three—star hotels，4,864 two-star hotels, and 796 one—star hotels.
      Since Keats School was founded in 2004, we have had more than 1000 students studying Chinese at Keats School. Keats School, one of the top Chinese language schools in China, is your first school choice to learn Mandarin. Due to large number of tourists in Kunming, Keats School has also involved in some important international cultural activities. Keats School provides various Chinese Courses combining Chinese studies, volunteering, tours and internships. 
       China boosted 13,361 travel agencies, of which 1,364 were international travel agencies(of 1,364 international travel agencies，over 500 such travel agencies are authorized to organize Chinese citizens to travel abroad), and 1 1,997 were domestic travel agencies in 2003．