China Travel & Tourism News

Three dozen coal miners remain trapped underground following a serious flooding accident on Sunday in Sinan County, near the city of Tongren in southwest China's Guizhou Province. ...

Chinese air-carriers are offering hefty discounts this month to regain passenger trust, today's Beijing Daily reported. Generally, with the Christmas and Spring Festival approachi...

A rush of visitors is heading from Guangzhou to Beijing seeking to enjoy the last of the low-priced holidays there. In contrast, Shanghai locals are much more rational and optimist...

AIR China is expected to bring in more than US$1.05 billion with its Hong Kong and London initial public offering (IPO). Air China will sell 31 per cent or 2.805 billion shares of...

INDONESIA President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will lead a special ministerial meeting on culture and tourism on January 14 and 15 in Tampak Siring, Bali. The meeting will involve m...

AT the India and Malaysia-Partnership in Tourism conference yesterday, Malaysia's Tourism Ministry unveiled a strategic plan to attract 400,000 Indian arrivals by 2007. Indian arr...

A top communications official with the Beijing municipal government on Friday vowed that traffic conditions during the 29th Olympic Games, which will be held in the capital in 2008...

China's capital Beijing plans to require attendants at its public toilets to speak basic English in a bid to improve the services provided to foreign visitors, state media said. I...

The third Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival 2004 kicked off here Thursday at the Russian Culture Center here. As many as 49 documentaries featuring the Himalayas and ...

Amid a final stage of preparations for the World Heritage bidding, Macau is making a global promotion of its cultural assets, which would upgrade the city's tourist value in additi...

The Singapore's budget airline, Jetstar Asia, will launch its daily service between Hong Kong and Singapore from Monday. Jetstar Asia will become the fifth budget airline operatin...

If you miss the best season while visiting Xinjiang - between July and September - you can try and find its charm in another way. Early last month I made a trip to the Uygur auton...

As the Spring Festival holiday is approaching, travel agencies in Guangzhou are promoting overseas tour packages during the Chinese New Year. Tour packages costing over 10,000 yuan...

China signed an agreement with the United States here on Monday to promote bilateral travel and tourism cooperation. The agreement was signed by He Guangwei, visiting Chairman of ...

THE Malaysian government's announcement that it will stop issuing the restricted passport for travel to Singapore after December 31 means that Malaysians working in Singapore or wa...

AIR Paradise International has introduced a new service to Brisbane and Australian Airlines started flying between Perth and Bali on December 2, increasing seat capacity between Au...

INDONESIA Department of Culture and Tourism will be issuing guidelines on developing small islands for tourism purposes. The final draft of the guidelines is awaiting approval fro...

The Dabao'ensi Pagoda, a 580-year-old relic destroyed in a war a century and a half ago, will be rebuilt. Preliminary work has been basically completed and the rebuilding will soo...

A highway linking China's southwest border province of Yunnan with the neighboring country of Myanmar will be upgraded soon, so as to further boost exchanges between China and the ...

Amid a final stage of preparations for the World Heritage bidding, Macao is making a global promotion of its cultural assets, which would upgrade the city's tourist value in additi...

More than 60 tourists from east China's coastal Fujian Province set off for Jinmen Islands off Taiwan Tuesday under a deal designed to promote tourism and people-to-people exchange...

Shenzhen will have a return passenger flight to Kuala Lumpur from January 18, 2005. There will be three return flights a week and it will be Shenzhen Airlines' first international...

The first express passenger trains are scheduled to begin running between Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province, and Shenzhen, in southern China, on December 18,...

A veteran teacher in China's westernmost Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has trekked some 300,000 km -- equal to a distance of seven round-the-globe trips -- in 30 years to collec...

There is no exact schedule for Chinese citizens to tour the US, said a spokesman with the National Tourism Administration, dispelling media reports that Chinese people are expected...

National space hero Yang Liwei is still undecided on whether to travel to space again but is prepared for future space missions. Yang said this Thursday at the Chinese University ...

Chinese air-carriers are offering hefty discounts this month to regain passenger trust, today's Beijing Daily reported. Generally, with the Christmas and Spring Festival approachi...

Cardholders in China holding Visa Platinum and Visa Gold will be granted two-year multiple journey visas to Singapore under the "Visa-for-Visa" program jointly launched by Visa Int...

Air China, the country's biggest airline, raised US$1.07 billion after pricing its IPO near the top of its range, sources close to the deal said yesterday, amid strong demand for n...

The Nippon Travel Agency Co Ltd, the third largest tour agency of Japan, launched the first Japanese solely-owned tour operations in Shanghai, temporarily for employees from local ...