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Traveling To Beijing For Business And Pleasure

2010-01-05

Feng Haifeng is a medical consultant at the Tumor Medicine Department of Beijing Novartis Pharma Ltd. He often travels on business to Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Shanghai. When do y...

Beijing embraces new year's first snow

2010-01-04

Beijingers woke up to see the first snowfall of the new year Saturday, after nearly two months of drought. The snow began before daybreak in Beijing and parts of the neighboring Tianjin Municipality ...

China Southern Plans Charter Flight To Da Nang

2010-01-04

China Southern Airlines is planning to launch scheduled charter flights from Guangzhou to Da Nang in Vietnam. The charter flights will be operated from January 15, 2010, to January 14, 2011, with two...

Mainland And Taiwan Agree To Add Four New Destinations

2009-12-31

The civil aviation administrations of the mainland and Taiwan have reached agreement on such topics as increasing new destinations in mainland and increasing the number of flights during the Spring Fe...

Emirates Airlines Sets Up Dubai Visa Reception Center In Guangzhou

2009-12-31

Emirates Airlines has recently set up a Dubai Visa Reception Center in Guangzhou. The center is established by Emirates Airlines with official authorization to bring convenience to travelers visiting...

Great Wall's Mutianyu sectionmakes plans for more renovation

2009-12-30

Foreign leaders with travel plans to scale the Great Wall might be excited about the Mutianyu section's plan to open up an additional 500 m next year. "The main renovation and construction of the 502...

Harbour Plaza Hong Kong Hotel Rebranded As Harbour Grand Kowloon

2009-12-30

The 554-room five-star Harbour Plaza Hong Kong will be rebranded as Harbour Grand Kowloon on January 28, 2010. This rebranding follows the earlier announcement of the opening of Harbour Grand Hong Ko...

Taiwan Strait West Coast Tourism Plan Approved

2009-12-29

The Development Master Plan for Taiwan Strait West Coast Tourism Zone (2010-2020) has been approved by the Cross-Strait Tourism Forum Review Committee. According to the plan, from 2010 to 2020 the Ta...

China And Vietnam Plan Tourism Cooperation Zone

2009-12-29

China and Vietnam are planning to build a "China-Vietnam International Tourism Cooperation Zone" on the border of the two countries to attract more tourists from China, Southeast Asia, Europe and the ...

China Eastern to expand Beijing presence

2009-12-28

Shanghai-based China Eastern Airlines is speeding up efforts to establish a stronger presence in Beijing by expanding its fleet and manpower resources. The number of planes under the Beijing branch w...

China Airlines To Open Taipei-Miyazaki Route In 2010

2009-12-28

From January 21, 2010, Taiwan's China Airlines will launch an international air route from Taipei to Miyazaki in Japan. Located to the southeast of Kyushu, Miyazaki is the origin of many Japanese myt...

Inner Mongolia Gets New Tourism Service Hotline

2009-12-28

The tourism service hotline 12301 has been formally opened in Inner Mongolia, and it will offer services to domestic and overseas tourists. Tourists can dial 12301 or 0471-12301 to get to a 24-hour s...

Avoid a springtime surprise

2009-12-25

In the West, Christmas notoriously comes earlier every year, and in China Spring Festival is much the same way. Already, preparations are underway for family dinners that won't take place until mid- F...

Christmas is Chinese Valentine's Day?

2009-12-25

Beijing is getting into the Christmas spirit. Restaurants, malls, and upscale residences are decked with boughs of paper holly. Window panes all around are scribbled over with frosty, misspelled cheer...

Get set for paradise on ice

2009-12-24

Freezing temperatures open up a wonderful world of ice and snow, in Northeast China, where millions of people from all over the world converge every year. The Harbin Ice and Snow Festival, which begi...

Yangtze River Delta Develops Water Tourism

2009-12-24

At the World Expo Forum on Water Travel and City Life, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai signed a cooperation framework agreement on developing Yangtze River Delta water tourism. The three parties will...

Chengde: 'little Tibet' in north China

2009-12-23

Tibet is attractive and charismatic for both Europeans and Chinese. However, it is still considered a luxury for many people to visit Tibet, known as the "Roof of the World." Besides, some people are ...

Jumeirah To Manage Luxury Hotel In Hangzhou

2009-12-23

Jumeirah Group, the Dubai-based luxury hospitality company, has been appointed by GT Land Holdings Limited to manage a luxury hotel in the Yangtze River Delta tourism hub of Hangzhou. The 550-room, f...

Eaton Hotels International Expands In Mainland China

2009-12-23

Eaton Hotels International recently announced in Shanghai that it had signed three agreements with the Greenland Group and its upscale Eaton Luxe and midscale Eaton Smart brands will enter mainland Ch...

MSC Cruises Sets Up JV With SIPG In Shanghai

2009-12-22

Shanghai International Port (Group) Company and Italian MSC Cruises have set up the MSC Cruises Travel Agency (Shanghai) Company on Shanghai's North Bund. This is reported to be the first joint ventu...