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Crowne Plaza Xiangfan Opens Its Doors

2010-11-18

Crowne Plaza Xiangfan, InterContinental Hotels Group's first Crowne Plaza Hotel in Xiangfan city, Hubei, will open on November 26, 2010. The 302-room hotel is located at the center of the city's te...

Taiwan to Open to Individual Mainland Tourists

2010-11-18

Taiwan will allow individual tourists from the Chinese mainland to travel to the island in January 2011 a month earlier than originally planned. According to a Taiwanese local government official,...

Beijing Reports 21.3% Increase in Tourist Arrivals This Year

2010-11-18

The tourist arrivals in Beijing reached 4.16 million in the first 10 months of this 2010 21.3% more than in the same period of the previous year and exceeding the total for the whole of 2009. In the...

Home Inns Announces Plans to Enter Mid-scale Hotel Market

2010-11-17

Home Inns and Hotels Management Incorporated, one of the largest budget hotel brands in China, has announced that it schedules to enter into the mid-scale hotel segment in China with three to four new...

China Southern Passenger Volume Up 15.1% in October

2010-11-17

China Southern Airlines, China's largest commercial carrier, has revealed that its passenger volume in October 2010 rose 15.1% year on year to 7.05 million. The Guangzhou-based carrier's passenger ...

Beijing Yandaixie Street Listed as Famous Historical Street

2010-11-16

Beijing's Yandaixie Street also known as Tobacco Pipe Lane has been granted the title of China's Famous Historical and Cultural Street by the Ministry of Culture and the State Administration of Cult...

Tianlun International Hotels Opens Its First Radegast Resort

2010-11-16

Recently a grand opening ceremony was held at Tianlun International Hotels for its first Radegast resort, Radegast Resort Guiyang Poly. Radegast Resort Guiyang Poly, which is positioned as the only...

Grand Opening for Qingdao Kunlun Gloria Seaview Resort

2010-11-15

Qingdao Kunlun Gloria Seaview Resort, the second hotel being managed by Gloria Hotels and Resorts under its resort brand following the opening of Gloria Garden Resort in Qingdao earlier this year, has...

Beijing Capital Airport Passenger Traffic Up 11.8% in October

2010-11-15

Beijing Capital International Airport Company has revealed that passenger traffic in October 2010 at the airport increased to 6.74 million, 11.8% more than in the same period of the last year. Last...

China and Portugal Sign Tourism Cooperation Agreement

2010-11-15

China and Portugal have signed an agreement in Lisbon to enhance cooperation in tourism between the two countries. The agreement was signed by Shao Qiwei, the head of the National Tourism Administr...

Visitor Arrivals in Tibet Hit 6.37 Million

2010-11-12

According to the Tibet Tourism Bureau, a record number of 6.37 million tourists from home and abroad visited Tibet Autonomous Region in the first 10 months of 2010, 20.8% more than in the same period ...

Shenzhen Airport Increases Flights to Taiwan

2010-11-11

To meet tourists' demand for winter travel between Shenzhen and Taiwan, Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport has increased the flight frequency to Taiwan to 27 per week. According to officials at ...

Boutique Hotel Pravo Set to Open in Shanghai

2010-11-11

On December 8, 2010 Hotel Pravo, a new boutique hotel, is scheduled to open on the North Bund in Shanghai. The classical Art Deco style hotel is the creation of Steven Wang, who is also the CEO of ...

Afriqiyah Airways Launches Tripoli-Beijing Route

2010-11-10

Libya's Afriqiyah Airways launched its first flight to Beijing from Tripoli, the capital of Libya on November 2, 2010, in a move to officially start operating direct flights linking the two countri...

Sanya: 2010 Visitor Arrivals to Q3 Exceed 6.63 Million

2010-11-10

The Sanya Tourism Development Committee has revealed that more than 6.63 million overnight tourists visited Sanya in the first three quarters of this year: up 20.7% from the previous year. During t...

The Lvdao Hotel Group to Open Five-Star Hotel in Fujian

2010-11-10

In January 2011 the Lvdao hotel group will open its five-star Shishi Lvdao International Hotel, which is located in Fujian's Shishi City and is its largest property in China. The hotel is located i...

Shanghai Disney Theme Park Agreement Signed

2010-11-09

U.S.-based Walt Disney has signed the formal agreement with Shanghai Shendi Group Corporation, a company backed by the Shanghai municipal government, to together develop a Disneyland theme park in the...

Mercedes-Benz Arena Unveiled in Shanghai

2010-11-09

The Shanghai World Expo Culture Center has been reopened as the Mercedes-Benz Arena, the car giant's first sponsored entertainment arena outside Germany. The 18,000-seat arena, which includes 82 lu...

Lufthansa Increases Beijing-Frankfurt A380 Flights

2010-11-08

German flag carrier Lufthansa has decided to increase the frequency of its Airbus A380 flights on the Beijing to Frankfurt route to three a week from the previous once a week. Starting on November ...

Xiamen Holds 2010 International Yacht Exhibition

2010-11-05

The 2010 Xiamen International Yacht Exhibition was held in Wuyuan Bay, Xiamen from October 29 to November 1, 2010. With a theme of Let yachts enter into the public's daily life, the one of the coun...