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Fewer visitors to China last year despite Olympics

Published January 8, 2009, 6:26 am, The Charlotte Observer

(By ANITA CHANG, Associated Press Writer) The number of travelers to China dropped by 2 million in 2008 in what was supposed to be a banner year for tourism but became one dampened by Olympics-related security measures and the global economic crunch. It was the first decline in visitor numbers since 2003, when a deadly outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, SARS, kept many people away. ...

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