Chinese tourists made a total of 57.39 million outbound trips in 2010, up 20.4 percent over the previous year, said Shao Qiwei, Director of China's National Tourism Administration (NTA), at a national tourism work conference on January 18.

Inbound trips made by overseas tourists to the mainland hit 134 million last year, up 5.8 percent year on year.

Domestic trips made by Chinese tourists topped 2.1 billion, up 10.6 percent from 2009.

Revenue generated from tourism totaled 1.57 trillion yuan ($238.48 billion) in 2010, an increase of 21.7 percent from the previous year. Revenue generated from overseas tourists reached $45.8 billion, up 15.5 percent year on year, Shao said.