For the hundredth time, Chen Man chose the ritual "naked diving" to swim like a small fish.
It was more than three months before she went diving for the first time. At that time, she was also a teacher in a kindergarten in Beijing. Now she has resigned from her job as a professional diving director in Taodao, Thailand, to assist her coach in teaching at sea.
Chen Man said that diving is addictive, and more and more young Chinese people like her are beginning to contact and fall in love with diving.
According to Hurun Baifu's White Paper on China's Luxury Tourism, island tourism ranked third in China's high-end travelers'overseas travel in 2017 with 23% of the total. In addition to the simple leisure vacation, diving, textual research, this combination of sports and leisure, is attracting more and more young people, many of them like Chen Man as a professional diver.
This is also supported by data provided by the International Association of Professional Diving Coaches (PADI) to Interface News. Among the tens of thousands of divers in China, the age group is between 20 and 39 years old, accounting for 87% of the total number. Women divers accounted for 48% of the total number, which is the country with the highest female penetration rate. The portraits of Chinese divers are high-income, highly educated and flexible. 73% of them travel twice a year and 62% take annual vacations of more than 10 days.
