Chinese tourists are likely to have spent at record levels over the country's week-long National Day holiday, shrugging off the darkening outlook over its economy and the impact of a punishing stock market rout earlier in the year.

While country-wide figures have yet to be tallied, many cities and provinces across China, such as Beijing and Shandong, reported higher tourist numbers and receipts. Popular overseas destinations such as South Korea and Japan also enjoyed a boom from a flood of Chinese tourists, according to China's National Tourism Administration (NTA).

Tourist spending in Beijing jumped 7.1 per cent from the previous year. This increased holiday spending pattern played out across China despite rising fears that the country's faltering growth - estimated at 7 per cent this year, its slowest pace in nearly 25 years - may cripple domestic consumption. A stock market collapse that began in mid-June, which has wiped trillions of yuan off the bourse, has also stoked fears of a sharper slowdown.

More Chinese also flocked overseas. Trips to South Korea, Japan and Thailand were "explosively popular" while those to the United States, Russia, France and Italy also "increased substantially", the NTA said in a Sunday report.

Since new safety measures to prevent overcrowding were introduced this year, in the light of the fatal stampede in Shanghai last New Year's Eve, the chaos that had plagued famous tourist attractions in previous years has also been addressed, the NTA noted.

Newer trends have also emerged. This year, "red tourist attractions" - historical sites related to the communist revolution, such as Mao Zedong's birthplace of Shaoshan in central Hunan province - have risen in popularity, the NTA said.