Chinese are spending large amounts of cash on luxury goods in major cities around the world. Paris has become a prime shopping attraction for many Chinese tourist groups, the last stop on a multicity, multinational European bus tour. The average shopper in Paris spends 1,300 euros on shopping. Galleries Layfayette in Paris reports that the typical Chinese tourist spent 1,000 euros in two hours of shopping during 2009, 87 percent of it on fashion items, including shoes and handbags. The number of Chinese tourists to France in 2010 rose to 550,000, and they spent 650 million euros ($890 million). In 2009, Chinese surpassed Russians as the highest spending non-European visitors to France reports David Shambaugh. (1)
