The average expenditure by foreign tourists visiting South Korea in 2014 was found to stand at one-thousand-606 U.S. dollars per person.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism unveiled the figure on Monday, quoting the “Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development(OECD) Tourism Trends and Policies 2016.” The report revealed the latest data for 2014.

According to the report, 14-point-two million foreign tourists visited South Korea in 2014, up nearly 17 percent from 2013. Out of that total, six-point-one million were Chinese and two-point-three million were Japanese.

In particular, the report found that money spent by tourists from the Middle East exceeded an average of three-thousand dollars per person.

Expenditures by tourists from China stood at nearly 21-hundred dollars per person on average and from Japan 999 dollars.