2012年10月2日星期二
The slowdown? Not top-notch, say buyers Globetrotter China
Wealthy Chinese tourists pay $ 40,000 elk in Utah or book the entire first-class cabin on a flight to the family economic slowdown in France show China has no thinning or portfolios spoil the appetite of deep infected elite.
China's "Golden Week" holiday, a popular time for travel abroad, begins on Saturday. This year coincides with the celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival, to create a rare break of eight days, and visitors from Europe will not be there to get a taste of the simple life.
Chanel Wallets
Helen Shen, a Shanghai travel planner, said a private contractor had all the first-class section of a Lufthansa jet to fly his family of four in Paris this month reserved.
Shen is a resume of the many luxury tour to see the money roll in the frame and the members of the "dai fu he" - the second generation of wealthy families - despite the economic uncertainty of China.
"If you look at your wealthy overseas Chinese tourists to your, your customers, your investors are all in one," said Christine Lu, founder of Affinity China, a company based in Shanghai Luxury Travel.
"Even if there is any question of a slowdown in China, the luxury sector, we have a segment that can afford to do that yet have to travel," said Lu.
This is good news for luxury brands, the prospect of reduced demand in Greater China, Beijing suppressed conspicuous consumption are at home.
In the rest of the world, the rich Chinese tourists are famous for their lavish spending. To avoid steep tax at home, many of them free money for luxury goods and high-end cosmetics with all stamp their passports.
"Most people who go abroad have a bit of wealth and buy things abroad is still much cheaper than buying things in China," said Renee Hartmann, a consultant. Luxury retail, based in Los Angeles
Tax-free shopping company Global Blue said in July that Chinese travelers were the biggest donor in the duty-free shops, store up to 2.1 billion euros ($ 2.7 billion) in sales in 2011, from 68 percent last year.
"The (weakness) of the euro and the pound, plus the post-Olympic effect is to increase the draw of Europe as a tourist destination and encouraging wealthy Chinese buy line in Europe," she said Jinzhang, CEO HHtravel, a luxury travel brand in China's top online travel company Ctrip.com International Ltd.
Companies that sell popular brands not discover Chinese consumers suddenly see asceticism.
Italian designer Brunello Cucinelli, whose eponymous company is selling cashmere sweaters for around € 2,000 ($ 2,600) shrugged, worries about a slowdown in demand from China, said the old world luxury remains strong.
Some wealthy Beijing not only decorate their wardrobe with cashmere. Cucinelli told a story about a group of Chinese investors who visited his shop at his home on a hill in the center of Solomeo Italy, and were so impressed by the place, they were asked how much it would cost to buy the whole village.
"The Chinese love what we do, what we wear. You want to be like us. This is the Chinese century," said Cucinelli.
For this year's holiday, most boutique bulimia tourists from China are increasingly traveling to Europe and the United States that these trips were planned months in advance, but pure advertising in Asia can take a hit.
"(All) sales (after the golden week) may fall 10 to 15 percent in Hong Kong and China," Lam Tung-hsing, Managing Director, Retail Oriental Clock Holdings Ltd. He cited economic concerns but also the preference of the buyer for Many London, Paris and New York via Hong Kong and Macao.
It is not only the ringing of the retail boxes that show protected the upper echelons of Chinese society from the crisis. Upscale tourists lapping analyzed exclusive experiences such as meeting the family of the Swiss watchmaker Patek Philippe, or their genes in Munich.
Lu said that to keep his company a trip affinity for wine lovers in Bordeaux, France, during Luke Song Hua Chinese groups for luxury sports car races in Europe have.
52Safari, a hunting party, the wealthy Chinese also offers a good year. Scott Lupien, American founder of the association, three groups of tourists are out hunting this holiday. A couple at the top of the U.S. state of Utah for elk hunting trip pay 250,000 yuan ($ 39,600).
"This is our best October in four years of work we have more demand than ever before," says Lupien.
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