BEIJING, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- China earned 5.4 trillion yuan (850 billion U.S. dollars) from tourism in 2017, an increase of 15.1 percent, the China Tourism Academy said on Tuesday.

Chinese tourists made 5 billion domestic trips and 131 million overseas trips in 2017, up 12.8 percent and 7 percent respectively.

Last year saw 139 million inbound trips, a rise of 0.8 percent from 2016, of which 75 percent were from Asia.

Preliminary data showed the industry contributed 9.13 trillion yuan to , accounting for 11 percent of economic output.

Tourism created 80 million jobs.

China is the world's largest source of outbound tourists and the fourth largest destination of inbound tourists.