Although the financial crisis of 2009 greatly affected all sectors of the travel industry, the World Travel Trends report released on Wednesday in Berlin predicted a slight recovery from some regions, including a strong boom commencing from China.
Rolf Freitag, the CEO of IPK International, a world travel research monitor that tracks the trends in outbound [...]
Hainan’s tropical climate, natural bays and golf courses are key factors that attract many golf and surfing enthusiasts to Hainan. “These excellent conditions of Hainan should be used to promote Hainan as an international tourist destination,” said Chairwoman of Singapore Jetstar Airways Zhuang Bilian.
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The Chongqing Traffic and Tourism Investment Group in southwest China revealed on Sunday that it will spend two billion yuan ($292.99 million) to build ten super inland cruise ships.
The company has start building the first ship of the fleet that is twice as expensive as the most luxury cruise ships currently voyaging on the Yangtze [...]
The Chinese Lunar New Year is not only a gala for domestic retail sales, but a feast for overseas retailers, too.
Some 1,200 Chinese tourists celebrated the lunar New Year in New York between Feb 14 and 20, spending an estimated $6 million in the United States, said Zheng Wenqing, a public relations manager for New [...]
Skyrocketing hotel rates in Hainan province during the Spring Festival holiday scared away tourists and tainted Hainan’s image as “China’s Hawaii”, travel experts said.
Hainan, China’s tropical southern island, attracted a record number of tourists seeking leisure or investment opportunities during the Spring Festival holiday. But hotels in Sanya, a city in Hainan, only had a [...]
Tourism booms in southwest China’s quake-hit Sichuan province during the seven-day Lunar New Year holiday despite sharp temperature fall.
The province received 19.38 million tourist arrivals from February 13 to February 19, a rise of 17 percent year-on-year. The province’s tourist income increased 23.8 percent to reach 5.8 billion yuan ($852 million), said an official of [...]
