China Travel & Tourism News

The country will soon open more overseas and domestic air routes to ease congestion in the skies and meet traffic needs in the run-up to, and during, the 2008 Olympic Games. ...

For teenagers, the long summer holiday offers a wealth of opportunities. But for Robert Lin, who is enrolled at the University of California, the choice was simple the cha...

Revolutionary Base to Lure Overseas Visitors Jinggangshan, an old revolutionary base in east China's Jiangxi Province, is starting to explore overseas tourism ma...

Rainfall in parts of Sichuan Province over the weekend has brought hopes of an end to the region's worst-ever drought. Showers in cities and prefectures in the southweste...

Measures are being drawn up to attract investors to China's 2 trillion yuan (US$250 billion) railway expansion. The Ministry of Railways is fast-tracking legislation to e...

Northwest China: During the week, showers will frequent the northern sections. August 21 to 23, northern Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia and northern and western Shaanxi will rec...

Trekking through the expanse of the Gobi Desert and the mountains of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region forms the core of an exotic experience like no other. This summer, scores of t...

Trade in Air China (SH 601111) shares, the national flag carrier, started Friday morning on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, with the opening price marginally lower than the issuance p...

A flock of Tibetan antelopes are about to cross the Qinghai-Tibet Highway when suddenly a car blares its horn and whizzes past. The young antelopes are frightened and scamper back....

A mobile phone system will be used as a new tour guide of Hong Kong to provide information on shopping, dining and sightseeing to tourists in the city, said the Tourism Board Frida...

Beijing's overseas tour market will continue to focus on Europe during the upcoming weeklong National Holiday. By now, the major travel agencies in Beijing have finished design...

Beijing on Wednesday started the construction of a new subway line to incorporate the Capital International Airport into its metro domain. The source with Beijing Subway Corpor...

Transrapid International (TRI), the German technical provider for the Shanghai maglev train, has sent a team of experts to join their Chinese counterparts to help pinpoint the caus...

As many as 180 people were laid off at airport duty-free shops across Canada on Wednesday because of a sales drop attributed to the strict new security regulations. Busines...

More performers than ever before will feature in this year's Shoton Festival, which begins next Tuesday in Tibet. Hotels have also been built to cater for the surging inflo...

The government is likely to reduce tax rebates on exports of high-polluting, energy-consuming and resource-intensive products by an average 2 percentage points in a bid to protect ...

Chaos at London's three main airports entered sixth day, when many passengers are still enduring cancellations and delays, as 10,000 bags are piled up at airports and airliners thr...

British Airways (BA) is considering suing airport operator, British Airports Authority (BAA), for compensation after security measures forced it to cancel hundreds of flights from ...

Since August 1st, resort areas in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, such as Urumqi and Kashi, are welcoming soaring numbers of tourists. In Urumqi, hotels and restaurants are a...

Visitors to Pingyao in the Shanxi province have gladly welcomed the newly-renovated toilets in the ancient city. The new toilets are frequently cleaned to ensure they stay...

To prepare for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, famous Beijing sites that are inscribed to be World Cultural Heritages are undergoing maintenance work, including areas in Beihai Par...

"The operation of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway catches the passion of Japanese citizens which is that they go to visit Tibet in groups as units by train," said a lady named Qian Chuan...

This year Shanghai local authority will begin constructing Asia's largest railway station. The city announced the plan on Thursday. Liu Lianqing, director of the Shanghai Rai...

Despite reports of a foiled terror plot in Britain flights from China's three major international airports of Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong have not been disrupted. Whil...

China tightened airport security on Friday in the aftermath of a plot uncovered by the British police to bomb flights bound for the United States. China's General Administ...

China's General Administration of Civil Aviation (CAAC) ordered tight airport security across the nation on Friday after British police foiled a terrorist plot to blow up aircraft ...

This year's latest typhoon is expected to blow into East China this afternoon or tomorrow morning. The Central Meteorological Observatory (CMO) yesterday predicted Typhoo...

When he was a little boy, Guo Wei spent his days on horseback, chasing sheep or deer with his father near his hometown in northwest China's Qinghai Province. Thirty years ...

Hong Kong Airport Authority announced that a total of 17 Hong Kong-Taiwan flights had been canceled or delayed by 9:15 a.m. (1:15 GMT) on Thursday, because Typhoon Saomei has appro...

China's wild animal hunting quotas will for the first time be sold by auction to domestic hunting agencies, a move designed to increase transparency and efficiency in the industry....