The Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi led a tourism delegation to Shanghai last month as part of a new initiative to encourage even more visitors from China to explore the emirate. China is currently the largest international source market for hotel guests staying in Abu Dhabi, with more than 242,000 Chinese checking into the emirate’s 166 hotels and hotel apartments in the first eight months of this year, a year-on-year increase of 68 per cent.