"There´s probably 5,000 of them."The financial clout of China´s travellers can be eye-popping.
According to China´s state news agency Xinhua, Chinese tourists spent $164.8 billion in 2014, a four-fold increase compared to 2008.
A whopping 88 percent of that was on shopping, it said, citing the China Tourism Academy, a government agency.
Japan alone saw more than 550,000 visitors from China in July, a figure more than double the same period a year ago, and the average Chinese tourist spends around $1,100 -- about twice as much as the next-highest spending cohort -- according to the Japan Tourism Marketing think-tank.
Fischer predicted that the yuan´s depreciation would not hinder Chinese from travelling but some may become more cost-conscious, particularly when it comes to luxury items.
It is precisely that concern that is worrying organisations like the Indonesian Association of Travel Agencies.
Its chairman Asnawi Bahar said the industry´s fear was that Chinese visitors, who number roughly one million visitors to the archipelago annually, would "hold back on shopping and shorten their stay in Indonesia".
Trade bodies in a litany of other Asian countries from the Philippines to South Korea have expressed similar concerns.
Many of them, however, are helped by the fact that their own currencies have fallen sharply.The yuan is still at, or close to, two-year or longer highs against the currencies of popular tourist destinations like Japan, South Korea, Australia and the eurozone, CAPA said.
"I think that in the bigger picture scheme of things, Chinese tourism to Australia will continue to rise," said Craig James, chief economist at Australian stockbroking firm CommSec.
Other countries -- from Europe to those in the Asia-Pacific region -- have sought to lower visa barriers for Chinese travellers in a bid to attract what the China Tourism Academy says is the world´s largest pool of tourists.