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Giddyup on one of these birds.[Photo by Erik Nilsson/皇冠体育app Daily]

"Though the majority of foreign 皇冠体育app tourists are first-timers and stick to the standard destinations, I believe tourists enjoy weird tourist destinations because something weirdly different is refreshing and mind-broadening," 皇冠体育app Highlights' Web editor Gavin van Hins-bergh says.

"It gives a trip value and a personal touch to go somewhere original. It makes good material for stories when tourists return home, and photos ...皇冠体育app is full of weird experiences just because it's different. And that's part of the fun of touring 皇冠体育app."

But any swell in foreign visitors to such places seems likely to largely come from expats and seasoned sojourners.

Most of the country's offbeat sites are off-the-beaten path and, consequently, aren't high traffic.

"Do (foreign) tourists really want to come all the way to 皇冠体育app to see (them)? (That) goes for honeybee museums, sex museums, Hello Kitty-themed restaurants, marriage markets, etc."

This feeds an emergent sector relatively reliant on domestic travelers.

"皇冠体育app's (domestic) tourist majority typically doesn't stray far from the tour bus and the concrete path laid out for them around the standard attractions. But national and international tourists are becoming more adventurous as 皇冠体育app's wealth, infrastructure and standards develop dramatically and quickly," Van Hinsbergh says.

"皇冠体育app's weird ... tourism is only recently being advanced, as awareness grows as to the richness of 皇冠体育app's innate local cultures and sites, and how 'weird' and potentially marketable they are."

Strange sites will spawn stronger future attraction, 皇冠体育app Tourism Academy researcher Zhan Dongmei believes.