China Travel & Tourism News

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 ...

The Indonesian Culture and Tourism Ministry has launched "Visit Indonesia Year (VIY) 2008" in an effort to attract more foreign tourists to the country, the Antaranews agen...

The first bullet train designed and manufactured in China with a speed of 300 kilometers per hour rolled off the production line on Saturday morning. The train was the latest m...

Some 2.3 million foreign tourists visited Argentine capital Buenos Aires in 2007, roughly 200,000 more than a year earlier, the Buenos Aires Tourism Organization said on Monday. ...

Foreign or Chinese passengers entering the country do not need to fill in quarantine declaration forms from next month, it was announced Wednesday. However, they are required to...

Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa praised Tuesday the establishment of the Zambia-China Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone, which he said would provide more job opportunities and h...

An estimated 9 million people will cross checkpoints in and out of Hong Kong during the upcoming Christmas and New Year holidays, an increase of 9.1 percent over the same period la...

BEIJING, Dec. 18 -- The Chinese mainland will let its commercial banks invest in UK stocks and funds in the first expansion of the country's international investment program ou...

The Beijing-Tianjin passenger railway yesterday completed laying its tracks, making it possible for the high-speed train to open as scheduled for the 2008 Summer Olympics. ...

Upon first encountering Longyan, one is struck by its appearance. The same holds true for many other cities in the interior of this province, but Longyan is special. And no, it ...

Overseas visitors will be able to better appreciate the grandeur of the Palace Museum, or the Forbidden City, next year when foreign guides speak to them in their own tongue. Th...

Most of the foreign tourists coming to Siem Reap, where the renowned Angkor Wat is situated, were from South Korea and China in October, Chinese-language newspaper the Commercial N...

Once cultural artifacts are discovered the next step is to preserve them, especially in the face of modern urban development. Local planning authorities in Chongqing are prepari...

Beijing's first ever automatic train that has been designed to serve the upcoming new wing of its Capital International Airport was put on a trial Tuesday. The express rail ...

Belgian guitarist Emmanuel Baily felt he already knew a little about Chinese culture before arriving in the country for the first time earlier this month. He had read six books ...