A CHINESE billionaire has taken 6400 of his staff on a four-day holiday to France, before rounding off their trip by setting a new world record.
Tiens Group Company Chairman Li Jinyuan booked 4760 rooms in 79 four- and five-star hotels in Cannes and Monaco, in addition to 146 buses, for his employees, dailytelegraph reports.
After some sightseeing, the members of one of the biggest Chinese groups ever to come to Europe arranged themselves on the Promenade des Anglais in the southern resort town of Nice to spell out the phrase “Tiens’ dream is Nice in the Cote d’Azur”.
The city of Nice was estimated to be some 20 million euros ($28.4 million) better off for the mass visit.
Earlier the group visited the tourist sites of the French capital Paris, including the Lourve.
France is the most visited country in the world, according to the latest U.N. figures, and is seeing an increasing number of tourists from China. In 2013, 1.7 million Chinese tourists visited France, however the majority of visitors come from other European countries.
Almost 85 million foreigners a year support a 150 billion euro ($213 billion) industry that makes up 7 per cent of the nation’s GDP, according to government figures.
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