China Travel & Tourism News

At the recent 5th Pan-Pearl River Delta Regional Cooperation and Development Consultation Forum, Guizhou and Guangxi signed a tourism cooperation agreement to build the Guizhou-Gua...

SINGAPORE, June 26 (Xinhua) -- Visitor arrivals to Singapore fell 13 percent in May over the same period last year, official figures showed on Friday. A total of 730,000 to...

BEIJING, June 18 (Xinhua) -- The United Kingdom will embed more than 60,000 seeds, which can be planted after the World Expo 2010, into the structure of its pavilion to urge people...

MEXICO CITY, June 17 (Xinhua) -- Mexico's Tourism Ministry on Wednesday launched a campaign to encourage North American tourists to the country following a slump in tourist arr...

MEXICO CITY, June 16 (Xinhua) -- The Mexican government and Google Mexico on Tuesday signed an agreement on providing Google with Mexico's cultural heritage information to help...

MEXICO CITY, June 15 (Xinhua) -- Mexico's tourism and services industry saw 140,000 job cuts during the flu-hit period of April and May, a business organization said Monday. ...

BEIJING, June 12 -- The number of tourists visiting Shanghai city is still being affected by the global economic downturn, according to statistics released by tourism authorities M...

Troupers perform Shaoxing Opera at the 2009 Zhejiang (Shanghai) Travel Fair in Shanghai, east China, June 12, 2009. The fair kicked off in Shanghai on Friday, promoting Shanghai...

HANOI, June 12 (Xinhua) -- The International Tourism Exhibition2009 will take place in the Ho Chi Minh City of Vietnam in October this year, the local newspaper People's Army r...

Ningbo International Conference & Exhibition Center is a large-scale modern exhibition hall invested by Ningbo Municipal Government. Located at the center of Ningbo City, the exhib...

YANGON, June 12 (Xinhua) -- A private travel company has introduced an online visa on arrival service system in Myanmar, designed to expedite arrival visa and other services for th...

TIANJIN, June 10 (Xinhua) -- The first flight of newly-established Tianjin Airlines took ff Wednesday morning, marking the start of 20 daily flights. The plane, an E190, de...

CANBERRA, June 9 (Xinhua) -- Five Australian cities have been ranked among the top 20 places in a British survey evaluating the liveability of 140 of the world's major centers....

China's economy is expected to hit bottom and recover within this year However, the eight percent growth rate target is still an arduous task to achieve. On June 8, Jia Kang...

CARACAS, June 4 (Xinhua) -- Representatives from Argentina, Cuba, Brazil, Ecuador and Venezuela began a two-day meeting to work out a unified criterion to boost tourism in Latin Am...

The International Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Forum in the framework of the Second International Intangible Cultural Heritage Festival of Chengdu, concurring with one y...

BEIJING, June 3 -- Anybody with some knowledge of 20th century Chinese art has heard the name Li Keran. A bright star in the firmament of Chinese ink-on-paper painting, Li is both ...

By the end of April this year, the cumulative value of direct investment made by Japanese enterprises in China reached 66.68 billion USD, making Japan China's second largest so...

BEIJING, June 1 -- A celebration of traditional arts will be held from today until June 13 in the 2nd International Festival of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Chengdu, capital of ...

In the 7th CICGF last year, Thai Delegation, which organized by the Department of Export Promotion, Ministry of Commerce of Royal Thai Government (DEP), was the biggest overseas ex...

BEIJING, May 27 -- The Dragon Boat Festival is just around the corner and while the making of zongzi has been around for years, some mums still follow the custom of embroidering sc...

The foreign distinguished guests receive sachets during the opening ceremony of a culture festival in Jiaxing, east China's Zhejiang Province, May 26, 2009, to celebrate the Ch...

BEIJING, May 27 -- Parks, lakes and rivers around the country will be alive with the sounds of drummers pounding out furious beats and racers vigorously urging their dragon boats a...

BEIJING, May 26 (Xinhuanet) -- Hawaii's Hanalei Bay is ranked the best beach on the list of the U.S. top ten beaches, compiled anually by Dr Beach, a coastal expert. St...

JIANYANG, Sichuan, May 23 (Xinhua) -- Officials in southwest China's Sichuan Province, where the massive Wenchuan earthquake left more than 87,000 people dead or missing and mo...

BEIJING, May 21 -- Working on a Hollywood film set was nowhere near glamorous as I had imagined it to be. The production was a major blockbuster partly shot in Shanghai and a small...

BEIJING, May 21 -- Foreign countries and regions need to relax visa regulations for mainland tourists if they want to use the burst of potential outbound travelers from the mainlan...

BEIJING, May 18 (Xinhua) -- Shanghai's hotels are banking on the upcoming 2010 World Expo to boost their currently downward business, Monday's China Daily reported. ...

SHANGHAI(Xinhua) Perhaps the most famous foreigner in China, Mark Rowswell, also named "Dashan," was appointed Wednesday as Canada's Commissioner General for 2010 Shang...

JAKARTA, May 18 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia's famous resort received 21,492 tourists from China in March, surging by 88.16 percent month-on-month, the Jakarta Post reported on Monday...