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LA tourism gets love from China - but what's our appeal?
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May 6, 2015
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LA tourism gets love from China - but what's our appeal?
Yi Li does the marketing for China Tour in Diamond Bar, and he talks about Southern California's appeal to Chinese visitors.
File: Chinese tourists walk past the TCL Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood on Oct. 24, 2014.
Chinese tourists walk past the TCL Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on October 24, 2014.
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Yi Li does the marketing for China Tour in Diamond Bar, and he talks about Southern California's appeal to Chinese visitors.

Tourism in Southern California had a record year in 2014, with 44 million people visiting L.A. 

Many of them were foreign tourists, especially from China. Yi Li does the marketing for China Tour in Diamond Bar, and he talks about Southern California's appeal to Chinese visitors.