【据国际南极旅游组织协会(IAATO)数据，#中国成南极游第二大客源国#】The past decade has witnessed the growing popularity of Antarctic tours for Chinese tourists. In 2008, less than 100 Chinese tourists set foot on the southernmost continent. Ten years later, the number reached more than 8,000, making China the second-largest source of tourists in Antarctica, after the United States, as the International Association of Antarctic Tourism Organizations (IAATO) reported. In addition, an increasing number of Chinese youngsters are willing to embark on polar expeditions, with those born in the 1980s making up 46.5 percent of total tourist number and those born in the 1990s accounting for 23 percent, according to the report released by Ctrip, a Shanghai-based online travel agency. Chinese travelers spent an average of 23 days on their Antarctic trips, and the costs ranged from 50,000 yuan (7,241 U.S. dollars) to 110,000 yuan (15,585 U.S. dollars) in 2018. Nearly 90 percent of Chinese tourists opted to take cruises to Antarctica. 你想去南极打个卡吗？[挤眼] For more: http://t.cn/AiBvcl8X