China Travel & Tourism News

Beijing's first taxi fare hike in six years starts today, raising the price per kilometer after the four-kilometer base from 1.6 yuan (20 US cents) to 2 yuan (25 US cents). The ...

BEIJING, May 24 -- A new scenic spot, "Fairy Dragon Cave," will be added to the list of attractions at the Huangguoshu Waterfall Scenic Area, a famous tourist destination in southw...

Air Macao, the flagship airline in the special administrative region, plans to launch flights to two Mainland cities of Guangzhou and Ningbo, local media reported Friday. The M...

The Simatai Great Wall, one of the sections of Great Wall north of Beijing, will be undergoing large-scale repairs this year. The repairs, said an official of the Simatai sceni...

An ancient county yamen (government office in feudal China) opens to tourists in Neixiang County, central China's Henan Province, May 21, 2006. The well-preserved yamen, 700 years...

BEIJING, May 22 -- The Grand Canal will be designated a "Key State-level Cultural Relic" on China's first "World Heritage Day," set for June 10th of this year. Zhang ...

The true face of the Chinese National Grand Theater was unveiled in Beijing on Monday when the protection film of the last 30 titanium boards was peeled off. The controversial ...

China will launch a nationwide railway speed acceleration this year, the sixth in nine years, to boost transport capacity, a senior railway expert said on Tuesday. After the sp...

A new Visa Asia Pacific tourism spending report said on Thursday that the biggest increase in tourist spending was in Chinese Mainland. According to the report, entitled "R...

It was learned on May 11th that the Miss Tourism International Pageant would be held in China for the next five years in a row. Pageant organization chairman Datuk Danny Ooi announ...

A new expressway linking south China's busy Yantian port area with Airport-He'ao Expressway opened to the public yesterday. The Yantian-Paibang Expressway, the Shenzhen city's ...

The World Bank has approved an 86.33 million US dollar loan to scale up China's use of renewable energy as the country's demand for power increases, the bank said Wednesday. The...

A 260-year-old imperial garden, once the favorite of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) and ruined by a raging fire some 80 years ago, has been restored through a fiv...

Microsoft launched a technology center in China's southern coastal city of Guangzhou on Monday which aims to promote the advance of information technology (IT) in China through coo...

Macao recorded 293,189 package tourist arrivals in March, a year-on-year rise of 38.9 percent, according to official statistics issued here Monday. The figures from the gov...

Shanghai Airlines is expected to become a member of the Star Alliance in 2007, becoming the first Chinese carrier to join the world's largest affiliation of airlines. Jaan Albre...

The continued appreciation of China's currency has been temporarily hampered by two pieces of news from the United States, the Shanghai Securities News reported Friday. After fi...

About 4.25 million tourists visited Shanghai this week - a record for the 17 so-called Golden Week holidays since they started in October 2000, the Shanghai Tourism Administrative ...

Air Macao, the flagship airline in the special administrative region, logged a record monthly passenger throughput of 222,800 in April, the company said on Wednesday. A press r...

JAPAN Airlines (JAL) has flown the first charter flight to Macau on May 4. The Highest International Standards (HIS) agency packed the flight with 230 Japanese travellers who depar...

The Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage of China recently decided to start the protection program of the entire Great Wal...

An ocean liner course between Chinaand Vietnam was a popular route for Chinese tourists during the just concluded Golden Week holiday. The course starts from the scenic cit...

Hong Kong received over 387,000 Chinese mainland tourists from April 29 to May 7, less than the expected tourist arrival number of 430,000 for the Golden Week. However, man...

The 2006 Kunming International Culture & Tourism Festival opened on the morning of May 1st. Thirty-four floats from Laos's Vientiane, Cambodia's Phnom Penh, Malaysia's Kuala Lu...

An Italian culture week started Saturday at the International Horticultural Garden in Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province. The culture and folk arts week i...

Statistics published by the National Tourism Administration (NTA) on Sunday shows that during this May day holiday the number of tourists received by 116 Chinese scenic spots grew ...

China now owns 138 geological parks,with 53 new parks approved last year. China has increased geological protection fund on relics in recent years. Last year the fund arranged b...

The schedule has been set for the first five trains to Tibet via the new Qinghai-Tibet railway which will begin trial operations on July 1, an official with the Qinghai-Tibet Railw...

The Chinese mainland has increased six more cities for individual travelers there to go to Hong Kong and Macao. Nanchang, Changsha, Nanning, Haikou, Guiyang, and Kunming wi...

Visitors attend the 102th Paris Fair in Paris, capital of France, April 28, 2006. The 102th Paris Fair lasts from April 29 to May 8. The first Paris Fair was opened in 1917. ...