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China's Ctrip to Start Selling 2017 Tour-Around-The-World Package on April 25

China's Ctrip to start selling its tour around the world package for 2017 on April 25.

(Photo : Getty Images) China's Ctrip will start selling its tour around the world package for 2017 on April 25.

China's biggest online travel agency Ctrip is set to start selling its tour-around-the-world trip package for 2017 on April 25, according to China Daily.

Ctrip's premium travel brand HHtravel will reportedly handle both the sales and operation of the offer. The new package goes for a staggering 1.38 million yuan ($213,500) price tag per person, and there are only 10 slots being offered.

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This is the most expensive single travel product in China. The 80-day trip promo was sold out in just 13 seconds in 2015.

The trip includes a tour of 22 countries and regions including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Botswana, Cuba, Czech Republic, Finland, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States, Zimbabwe and the two poles, between January 3 and March 23 next year. The travelers will take off from Hong Kong.

Wanderers will also get to experience traveling by air, land and sea, as they take business class flights, cruise ship trips, and luxury train rides. Aside from that, they will also get to experience private helicopter rides and nuclear powered icebreaker trips.

Potential guests will be accommodated by world-class hotels such as Four Seasons and Ritz Carlton and will dine at five-star restaurants like Longitude 131 in Australia's Ayers Rock and London's Hakkasan.

"Chinese tourists have long been interested in traveling abroad, but now they want more enriched and varied experiences in different countries and continents instead of just settling on one or two places," Yu Lan, Ctrip's overseas travel director, told Global Times during an interview in 2012.

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