Forget France. China's richest travelers want to vacation in much more exotic locations, including Australia, South America, the South and North poles and Africa, according to a new study.

Hurun Report, a firm that tracks the trends of China's wealthy, spoke with 203 Chinese "super-tourists"—dubbed such because they took an average of 18 vacation days abroad per year and spent at least $25,000 on one trip over the past three years—for one section of its sprawling annual survey.

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