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Mauritius receives roughly 1.3 million visits from international travelers every year.

Roughly 80,000-90,000 Chinese tourists annually have paid visits in recent years, according to the Mauritius tourism authority.

The country hopes the figure could go up to 100,000 in 2017, and reach as much as 200,000 in years to come.

Air Mauritius has opened direct flights between Mauritius and Beijing, Shanghai, HongKong, Guangdong province's Guangzhou and Sichuan province's Chengdu.

The country now has 110 hotels and offers 350,000 guest rooms.