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Greenland Expands Hotel Business In Jiangxi

2009-08-20

The Greenland Group has announced that it has signed a hotel management contract with the Hengshan Group for the management of Qianhu Guest House in Nanchang, Jiangxi province. Located in the Honggu...

Starwood opens Sheraton Shunde Hotel

2009-08-19

Owned by Foshan Shunde Huacai Enterprise Investment Company, Sheraton Shunde Hotel is the reported to be first high end international hotel to open in Shunde in Guangdong. Located just next to the De...

HNA Group to set up new airline in Dalian

2009-08-19

After the successful cooperation with Yunnan and Tianjin governments for capital injection to its airlines, HNA Group has moved on to set up a new airline in Dalian in Liaoning. Under the investment ...

Taiwan Pavilion for Shanghai Expo breaks ground

2009-08-18

The construction of the Taiwan Pavilion for the Shanghai Expo started Monday despite the losses from Typhoon Morakot. The breaking ground of the pavilion should be attributed to the care and support ...

China Southern sets up branch in Taiwan

2009-08-18

China Southern Airlines Company, one of the largest airline companies in Asia, has set up a branch in Taipei in Taiwan. China Southern had previously set up an office in Taipei. According to a China...

Shenzhen and HK to jointly promote packaged tourism products

2009-08-17

http://www.china.org.cn/travel/news/2009-08/17/content_18346355.htmwww.china.org.cnYue Chuanjiang, the deputy director of Shenzhen Tourism Bureau, says that Shenzhen and Hong Kong have their o...

China to complete eight-hour railway network around Beijing

2009-08-17

Passengers would be able to travel between Beijing and most capital cities in China in eight hours by 2012, through a nationwide express railway network, according to the Ministry of Railways. As abo...

Guiyang plans tourism alliance

2009-08-14

The Guiyang Tourism Association Scenic Spots Branch has passed a resolution to set up the Guiyang Tourism Alliance and is currently formulating the terms and regulations. Despite that there are a num...

Shaanxi signs agreements with six organizations to accelerate tourism

2009-08-14

At the Shaanxi Province Tourism Development Conference, Shaanxi Provincial Tourism Administration signed tourism cooperation agreements with six domestic and foreign tourism related organizations. Co...

Macao's hotel occupancy rate drops in Jun.

2009-08-13

The average hotel occupancy rate in Macao decreased by 12.6 percent year-on-year to 60.7 percent in June 2009, with four-star hotels leading at 64.5 percent, according to the figures released on Wedne...

Macao's visitor arrivals in package tours fall 46.1% in Jun.

2009-08-13

Number of Macao's visitor arrivals in package tours in June 2009 declined by 46.1 percent over the same period of last year, according to the figures released on Wednesday by the city's Statistics and...

GreenTree Inn opens six new hotels

2009-08-12

http://www.china.org.cn/travel/news/2009-08/12/content_18319655.htmwww.china.org.cnGreenTree Inn has announced the opening of its six new hotels in Beijing, Shanghai, Jinan, Wuxi, Yanji, and H...

RCI signs six new Chinese resorts

2009-08-12

Group RCI, the world's largest timeshare vacation exchange network and part Wyndham Worldwide, has recently signed six Chinese resorts as its new affiliates, bringing RCI's presence in China to 24 aff...

Coach buses try new tack to win tourists

2009-08-11

Shanghaicoach bus operators are seeking to develop more long-distance and tourism routes in effort to deal with an expected loss in business after new express rail services between Shanghai and two ne...

China adds new outbound tourism destinations

2009-08-11

From September 15, seven countries will be added to the list of China's outbound tourism destinations for group tours. The nine countries are Guyana in South America; Ecuador and Dominica in Central ...

Transport slows as fury nears

2009-08-10

Someflights, ship services and tour bus routes were canceled in Shanghai yesterday as typhoon Morakot bore down on the Chinese mainland. Morakot, the Thai word for "turquoise," hit Taiwan last night ...

Pudong chiefs: a bright future

2009-08-10

Consensuson major aspects of building "an important tourism project" in Shanghai's Pudong New Area has been reached, but it still requires central government approval, newly elected officials said yes...

CNTA supports Shenzhen's national travel

2009-08-07

http://www.china.org.cn/travel/news/2009-08/07/content_18294574.htmwww.china.org.cnThe Chinese National Tourism Administration has signed a cooperative framework agreement with Shenzhen Munici...

Large passenger load for Quanzhou-Jinmen ship route

2009-08-07

The Quanzhou-Jinmen ship route has seen a more than 180,000 passenger throughput three years after it opened, according to Chen Rongzhou, vice mayor of Quanzhou. The first half of 2009 experienced a ...

Hongqiao rail station ahead of schedule

2009-08-06

The metro operator, Shanghai Shentong Group, is busy adding new trains to increase the Metro's limited capacity. Eighteen seven-carriage trains, which can each carry more than 2,100 passengers, are e...