China Travel & Tourism News

The Airbus A380 superjumbo took off from Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, and heading for Shenzhen on Wednesday morning, starting a week-long demonstrati...

Over 110,000 domestic and foreign business people from 130 countries and regions will display and sell products during a trade fair from Monday to Friday to in Yiwu City, east Chin...

"It's a fine day today and we suggest you to enjoy the fall foliage on mountains 200 meters above the sea level." Beijing Meteorological Bureau launched a new service o...

BEIJING, Oct. 19 -- The Dragon's Roar, a Chinese drum dance, kicked off the 9th China Shanghai International Arts Festival at the Shanghai Grand Theater on Thursday night. ...

An official of the Tibet Autonomous Region said Tuesday the plateau is ready to host more tourists, as tourism industry is both environment-friendly and promises quick wealth to th...

China's largest international trade fair opened in Guangzhou on Monday, with organizers expecting an increase in the number of exhibiters from overseas. The 102nd China...

He has been on the road for 11 years; his hiking adventures have taken him three times to Lop Nor, known as the "Sea of Death" in northwest Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region...

Air China will launch a direct route linking Beijing and Athens via a stopover in Dubai on November 28, which is also the first direct flight between China and Greece. The fligh...

Chinese share prices shot up by 2.46 percent, or 141.77 points, on Thursday with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index closing at a new high of 5,913.23 points on back of the bull...

The Beijing metro authority has began renovations of the city's old metro system for the purpose of improving convenience for passengers. The Beijing Subway Co. said that im...

BEIJING, Oct. 11 -- After arriving in the Chinese market last year, Oriflame, Europe's largest cosmetic direct sales company, says it is now trying to apply for direct selling ...

China is expected to unveil regulations within the year to subsidize its small and medium-sized airports and regional air routes to meet the rising demand for air travel. The go...

The civil aviation authority is planning to offer financial incentives to regional carriers to encourage them to serve non-hub cities. Under the policy, the General Adminis...

An e-ticketing system is under development inside China's Forbidden City to cope with the large number of visitors. "The initial e-ticketing plan has been formed,&#...

China will start interest rate forward trading from November 1, the central bank announced yesterday. The launch of the forward rate agreement, as the central bank calls it, is ...

BEIJING, Oct. 9 -- The import tariff on audio and video products and other electronic publications has been cut, the Ministry of Finance said on its website Monday. The gov...

YANGON, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar has banned outbound package tour arranged by domestic travel and tour companies, the local Voice journal reported Monday. Meeting with ho...

The global credit squeeze is a "serious crisis" that is not over yet and will have an impact on governments' budgets, the IMF's outgoing head Rodrigo Rato said in a...

Vietnam will hold a caravan road-show in several northern Vietnamese localities and southern Chinese ones on Oct. 27-31 to promote national images and trade exchanges between enter...

Price hikes and heavy traffic at popular tourism destinations are deterring more people in Shenzhen from traveling during the weeklong National Day holiday, which starts Monday. ...

China's southern province of Hainan plans to open nonstop flight routes to Russian cities of New Siberia, Vladivostok and Habarovsk by the end of the year as the scenic island ...

Tourists are being invited to pay 800 yuan (105 U.S. dollars) to witness the launch of China's first lunar satellite in Xichang, southwest Sichuan province. A travel agency ...

A grand boat show was held Wednesday on the Dongting Lake in Yueyang City to mark the start of the 2007 Hunan Tourism Festival. Hundreds of vessels, decorated as ancient wa...

China notified 63 technical barriers to trade (TBT) measures to WTO members through the WTO secretariat in 2006 -- the second highest number after the U.S. --aiming to protect publ...

A jar containing Chinese ancient coins has been unearthed in Vietnam's central Quang Tri province, local newspaper Pioneer reported Friday. Local farmers in Hai Phong d...

The Blackstone Group would invest up to 600 million dollars into a Chinese chemical corporation, the first investment in China, said the U.S. leading private equity firm on Monday....

Work on the high-speed Beijing-Tianjin inter-city passenger railway and the Beijing Southern Railway Station is proceeding smoothly and on schedule, sources said. The Beijing-Ti...

China's supervisor of state-owned assets has planned to launch restructuring of the telecommunications sector in the fourth quarter of this year and finish the reform in March ...

Mount Qomolangma, the world's tallest peak, received 25,000 visitors in the first six months of this year, said tourism authorities in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Re...

Chinese tourists to Fiji do not require a visitor's visa when traveling to Fiji. Interim Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama gazetted a visa exemption order on Thurs...