Travel bookings made in China for visits to Western Europe have dropped by as much as a quarter in the year since multiple terror attacks in Paris killed 130 people, according to travel industry analysis published on Monday.

Travel experts ForwardKeys said France was hard hit by a decline in bookings from the Asia-Pacific region. And neighboring countries, including Italy and Germany, had also been affected by the trend that coincided with heightened security concerns in Europe.

Bookings from China for trips to France were down 23.4 percent, which was around the average for people throughout the Asia-Pacific region.Travel to Italy's Milan, Rome and Venice was also down by as much as a quarter. Chinese bookings to Istanbul in Turkey, where more than 40 people were killed in an attack at Ataturk airport in June that was blamed on the Islamic State group, were down by as much as 27 percent.

Other countries benefited from a rise in bookings from Chinese tourists, which could be attributed to travelers seeking to avoid potentially unsafe destinations.

The ForwardKeys analysis showed that destinations including Moscow, London, Dublin and Manchester were seeing more Chinese visitors.

The increased volume was partly because of security concerns elsewhere, but, in the case of the UK, was also linked to a fall in the value of the pound, which has dropped by about 20 percent since Britain voted in June to leave the European Union. The lower pound has made travel to Britain, and goods bought here, a more attractive prospect.

Visits from China to Britain were already up by 46 percent last year, moving China into Britain's top 10 most valuable inbound tourism markets. ForwardKeys said earlier this month that flight bookings from China to the UK were up 24 percent for the period from October to December.

Places seen as safer included Copenhagen (up 14 percent), Helsinki (up 13.1 percent) and Stockholm (up 12 percent). Moscow saw the biggest increase, 23 percent year-on-year, reflecting its growing popularity with Chinese visitors and the downturn in bookings to France.

The writer is a senior editorial consultant for China Daily UK.