(DALIANNEWS) – The city’s tourism reception witnessed a growth rate of 18.36 per cent in the past six months, an official with the tourism bureau said recently.

Overseas tourists have been totalled 454, 800, earning foreign exchange profit of $315 million, up 18.49 per cent of that of last year.

During the late July when the annual Dalian Beer Festival took place, many travellers, including Holland’s 650 walking enthusiasts, choose to have a short- stay in the coastal city of Dalian before going to Beijing for Olympic Games.

French swimming team and other 100 American track and field athletes make the city as their pre- game trainning base.

Nearly one thousand South Korean people travel around by five chartered flights during the Beijing Olympic Games.

(Editor: Caroline)　(From: DALIANNEWS.COM)