China Travel & Tourism News

THE start of the Year of the Rat showed higher arrival figures for Hong Kong and Macau, with the former welcoming 1.07 million visitors and Macau receiving close to 720,000 between...

Prices for package tours to China's hottest tourist destinations have dropped by 30 to 50 percent following the Spring Festival, giving tourists with flexible vacation time a g...

A new subway line, which runs through the complex of stadiums, gymnasiums and parks for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, is to begin trial operation on June 1, a local rail traffic ...

The ending on Friday of charter flights between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan, which lasted two weeks over the Lunar New Year, has brought calls for regular direct flights across...

Chinese railways had carried 24.47 million passengers during the weeklong Spring Festival holiday, the Ministry of Railways said on Wednesday. The figure was a bit smaller than...

The government has approved a $36-million protection scheme for the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, a World Heritage Site in Gansu Province. The plan, approved by the National Developm...

Beijing received much fewer tourists during this year's weeklong Lunar New Year holiday as blizzard and icy rain hit the country's south and the government's adjustment...

Thomas Cook Group Plc, Europe's second-biggest tour operator, reported a 27-percent gain in annual profit and said summer vacation bookings have been unhurt by slower consumer ...

Air and road traffic conditions improved yesterday and railway tickets again became available, prompting a rush of travelers trying to leave Shanghai while they can, Shanghai Daily...

Nationals from six Middle Eastern countries will have their visa-free visits to Hong Kong extended from 14 days to 30 from Feb. 4, Hong Kong's immigration officials confirmed o...

Hong Kong Tourism Board said in Hong Kong on Monday that it expects Hong Kong's visitor arrivals to surge 8 percent to 30.43 million in 2008. The board also predicted spendi...

Policymakers in Hainan have said they will continue to develop the province's booming tourism, but not lose sight of key environmental issues. Governor Luo Baoming said yes...

Shanghai plans to build a bow-shaped museum to protect a river control works archaeological site in downtown this year. The site, more than 700 years old, was discovered by work...

Traffic police will be closely monitoring passenger buses and toxic-chemical container trucks as the Spring Festival transport rush begins. And at midnight last night, they bega...

Senior officials and tourism ministers from all 10 member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations as well as neighboring China, Japan, South Korea and India have ga...

The value of China's online travel market is to reach 3.84 billion yuan (519 million U.S. dollars) this year, with a projected growth rate of 70.7 percent, according to a natio...

AIRASIA X has become the first airline to launch direct flights between Kuala Lumpur and Hangzhou, China starting from February 4. The new service to Hangzhou is the airline's ...

Residents of the Beijing's Olympic Village this summer will enjoy all the amenities and luxuries expected of the international sporting event, with a real taste of China thrown...

THE General Administration of Civil Aviation of China (CAAC) has said that Jiuzhaigou Huanglong Airport will commence new non-stop flights from the airport to Beijing, Shanghai and...

Chinese people can now apply for a new kind of UK visa which entitles them to take unlimited short trips to Britain over a period of two to five years, said the British Embassy in ...

An estimated 22 million passengers are expected travel by air during the Spring Festival, 10 percent more than the same period a year ago, according to the General Administration o...

BEIJING, Jan.14 (Xinhua) -- China's currency, the yuan, hit a new high against the U.S. dollar on Monday, smashing the 7.26 mark to reach a central parity rate of 7.2566 yuan t...

New York City announced Sunday that an estimated 46 million people from around the country and the world visited the city in 2007. The estimate was up 5 percent from 2006&#...

The visa for health tourists to Malaysia has been extended from 30 days to six months, effective immediately. Health tourists would also be given multiple entry visas, deputy prime...

Lao Airlines opened a new route between the World Heritage town of Luang Prabang and Kunming, capital city of China's Yunnan province to meet the need of growing tourism in the...

It is not necessary to wait for long holidays to materialize your travel plans. A nice escape from the noise and crowds of Shenzhen awaits in Xinfeng and Longmen counties, ...

China's Three Gorges Dam attracted a record high of 1.25 million tourist arrivals last year, a year-on-year increase of six percent, according to tourism developers. The da...

Vietnam will build its first six-starhotel in Nha Trang city of central Khanh Hoa province next year, as part of a scheme to boost tourism in the country, local newspaper Vietnam N...

Northeast Chinese city Changchun will start to build a museum for Vasaloppet China international cross-country skiing festival this May, said a local official Wednesday. Wi...

Construction of a 1.8-million-ton cold-rolled steel plate project kicked off in the Guangdong capital early this week. The 6.35-billion-yuan project is backed by Guangzhou ...