Aug. 9, 2016 (SCMP) -- The growth rate of Chinese outbound visitors is slowing, up only 4.3 percent year on year to 59 million in the first half of 2016 due to weaker yuan. However, Chinese domestic tourism still remains strong as it is not affected by the weakening yuan. The first half of 2016 saw domestic tourist volume increase 10.5 percent to 2.2 billion travellers.