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A new direct air link between New Zealand and China opened Friday with the arrival of the first Hainan Airlines flight at Auckland Airport.
China will promote travel to countries along the Silk Road in 2015, according to the latest decision by the China National Tourism Administration (CNTA).
China and the United States will grant each other's citizens a business or tourist visa with multiple entries and the maximum validity of ten years, China's Foreign Ministry announced on Monday.
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) opened the first phase of a five-star hotel with 472 guest rooms in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region on Monday.
During the three-day May Day holiday, Tibetan residents began to go outdoor and enjoy leisure time, heralding the coming of a new "lingka season".
Crossing a 15-kilometer bridge over the Ganges in the northern part of this Indian city, a group of Chinese guests felt like crossing the Yellow River in a remote northern Chinese province 30 years ago.
Artists dance at the opening ceremony of the 32nd Luoyang Peony Culture Festival in Luoyang, central China's Henan Province, April 10, 2014.
China will overtake the US this year as the largest overseas tourism market measured by travelers and continue to grow, the industry's biggest global distribution system provider said on Tuesday.
Tourists can enjoy a bird's eye view of China's southernmost island province after a low-altitude airspace pilot project opened to the public on Wednesday.
Universal Studios, a well-established U.S. motion picture studio, is planning to build a Hollywood movie theme park in Beijing's Tongzhou District, according to media reports.
A photographic trip focusing on the religious and folk life in Tibet Autonomous Region and Tibetan-inhibited areas in China was unveiled on Feb. 5 and will last to the end of March
China is set to transform a northwestern desert into an international tourism destination after the signing of a cooperation framework.
Mi Lan could barely contain her excitement when she found out that Thailand had introduced a visa-on-arrival policy for Chinese travelers.
Venezuelan and Southern Common Market (Mercosur) officials met Tuesday in Caracas to evaluate a plan on boosting international tourism to the South American nation.
In recent years as Tibet tour gains popularity, more and more tourists travel to Lhasa to spend the Chinese New Year.
South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has set a target of 250 billion yuan (about 40.7 billion U.S. dollars) in tourist income in 2014, up 25 percent from 2013.
During the off-season for tourism, the tickets price for all scenic areas in Tibet will discount fifty percent.
The cabin door opened when the green light was flashing, Liu Kang moved forward to sit at the edge of the door with his tandem master. Everyone was pretty scared, and they stepped out of the plane after someone behind Liu was shouting "embrace the fear".
New Zealand's South Island will take its first step in opening directly to Chinese visitors next year when China Southern Airlines flies the first commercially operated 787 Dreamliner into Christchurch.
Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province, will launch 72-hour visa-free stays for foreign travelers next year, authorities said Monday.
Foreign visitors are spending more than a third more than previously thought, New Zealand government officials announced Thursday, raising the total spending in the year ending September by 1.7 billion NZ dollars (1. 41 billion U.S. dollars) to a total of 6.6 billion NZ dollars.
Medog County in Nyingchi Prefecture, SW China’s Tibet Autonomous Region plans to keep annual visitors within 15, 000, to guarantee sustainable tourism, according to Tibet Daily report.
Estonia, Russia and Finland are planning to forge a golden tourism triangle as representatives from the three countries met at the first conference on tourism cooperation in Estonia's northeastern city of Narva on Wednesday.
Chinese tourists are expected be able to take one-day tours to Sinuiju City of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) by boat from next year, a tourism official said.
The Mid-Autumn Festival, the 15th day of the 8th lunar month, falls on September 19 this year according to the Gregorian calendar. On this traditional Chinese festival, besides eating moon cakes, enjoying the full moon with family and friends is also a must. Want to enjoy the moonlight in a unique and interesting way? Let China.org.cn show the best places to enjoy the moon this year.
The Tibet Autonomous Region is bracing itself for the start of the fall climbing season, with over 250 mostly foreign mountaineers expected to tackle the region's famous mountains, some of which stand more than 8,000 meters high.
The Namtso Lake, one of the three holy lakes in Tibet, is perched near the Dangxiong County in the middle of the Tibet Autonomous Region.
Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, witnessed a tourism boom in the first eight months of the year, with tourist numbers rising 19.6 percent year on year, local authorities said on Thursday.
Nyingchi prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region set up its first automatic train ticketing system, allowing residents the ease of buying tickets from home.
Themed as "Chinese dream, love for Mt. Qomolangma", the opening ceremony of 11th Mt. Qomolangma Cultural Tourism Festival was held in Shigatse, Tibet, August 26, 2013.
A newly declassified CIA document confirms the existence of famed Area 51 in Nevada, but conspiracy theorists will be disappointed that the spy agency offers no proof of alien spaceship landings in the desert.
This year's Shoton Festival in Lhasa, regional capital of Tibet, attracted a record-high 1.38 million tourists from home and abroad, government sources revealed Tuesday.
The capital is attracting fewer tourists compared with this time last year and tourist complaints concerning the city have risen over the last six months.
For foreign tourists who want to travel to the Tibet Autonomous Region, two documents are needed before departure:
Cambodia's Ministry of Tourism on Wednesday finalized its 5-year strategic plan to attract at least 1.3 million Chinese visitors by 2018.
Foreign tourists travelling to Mexico by air markedly increased in the first four months of 2013 compared with the same period last year, according to official statistics released Wednesday.
New York, London, Beijing and Paris are the top four in the 2013 Report on Cultural Diversity and Dynamism of World Cities released in Shanghai on Tuesday.
The Indonesian island of Bali is the perfect destination for a romantic getaway. Craig McIntosh discovers the delights of the popular holiday spot as he road tests five luxury resorts.
Mexico and Germany pledged on Wednesday to promote bilateral tourism, air connectivity and the flow of visitors, Mexico's Ministry of Tourism said in a statement.
A surge in Chinese tourists drove up the number of overseas visitors to New Zealand last month to a new record for April, the New Zealand government statistics agency announced Tuesday.
China's tourist industry has been urged by a senior official to promote practices of good faith.
GENEVA, May 7 (Xinhua) -- With the first flight from Beijing to Geneva arriving at the Geneva International Airport at 18:22 (1622 GMT) Tuesday, more exchanges between the two cities and between China and Switzerland are expected.
Finland was considered to be the country where mothers enjoy the best conditions in the world, according to a worldwide report released on Tuesday.
The government of Central Philippine province of Aklan, to which the world- renowned resort Boracay Island belongs, expresses its confidence of reaching the target of attracting 1.5 million tourists in 2013.
A senior official from China's top economic planner said on Thursday that the entry fee at scenic spots should gradually go down, since they are natural and ancient resources that belong to the public.
BEIJING, April 23 (Xinhua) -- Chinese lawmakers mulled a draft tourism law on Tuesday that outlines measures to curb rocketing ticket prices amid the country's tourism boom.
A new visa agreement between New Zealand and China will allow business travelers multiple entries between the two countries for up to three years, the New Zealand government announced Thursday.
Independent Chinese visitors to New Zealand can apply for longer stay periods from next month, the New Zealand government announced Wednesday, while releasing a government-commissioned review of the Chinese tourism market.
Environmental issues such as poor air quality and water pollution have turned away inbound tourists during the first quarter of the year, according to the Chinese tourism authority.
An agreement to enable it easier for big spending Chinese tourists to visit New Zealand will bring more Chinese visitors for longer periods, the head of New Zealand's immigration service said Tuesday.
The Philippines' promotion of its famous resort Boracay is in full swing in China this year as the country expects new direct flights to bring more Chinese tourists to the island, an official said here on Monday.
With the Chinese tourist arrivals constantly on the rise, Nepalese authorities and tourism entrepreneurs intend to lay emphasis on China, seeking boost in the tourism industry.
African countries like Kenya, South Africa and Seychelles are becoming more popular among Chinese tourists.
Starting this year, Beijing's Dongcheng district will integrate and upgrade its tourism resources within the city's central north-south axis area, aiming to build a Qianmen folk culture commercial district, a traditional Royal City sightseeing area along with a Royal Life district. The plan also includes improving the area's public service system, which covers the environment, transportation, consultancy, relaxing facilities and other services.
Jamaica has made it easier for citizens of several Eastern European countries to travel to the island country by removing visa requirements to boost tourist arrivals from emerging markets.
Macao's visitor arrivals decreased by 6.1 percent year-on-year to 2,312,321 in January this year, according to figures released on Wednesday by the city's Statistics and Census Service (DSEC).
Accompanying the Tibetan Water Snake Losar, the winter tourism in Tibet gets warming up. Many tourists spend the winter holiday in Lhasa to enjoy the traditional Tibetan Losar celebration custom and the sunlight on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
Feb. 16, the "netizens experience Losar in Tibet" organized by the Tibet.cn completed its ten-day trip in the Tibet Autonomous Region, leaving the snow-white wonderland for Beijing.
With the upcoming 2013 Spring Festival, many citizens of China have prepared for a domestic travel plan. Coincidentally, the 2013 Tibetan New Year falls on February 11, just a day later after the Spring Festival.
Tourism revenues in China are expected to top 2.57 trillion yuan (407.94 billion U.S. dollars) in 2012, up 14 percent year on year, the country's tourism chief said Thursday.
Tourist spending in Canada rose 1.0 percent in the third quarter of 2012, following a 0.1 percent increase in the previous quarter, Statistics Canada said Wednesday.
A record number of passengers traveled via railways during the New Year holiday, the Ministry of Railways said Saturday.
Nowadays, more and more tourists from home and abroad choose to visit Tibet in winter.
Ta'er Monastery in northwest China's Qinghai Province now ranks as a national 5A tourist area, the highest honor of China's tourist attractions.
The government of Nepal is planning to ease visa regime for Nepal-bound Chinese tourists, officials said Thursday.
"The Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed railway will connect the three cities in which I spend most of my time," said Man Zi, a 25-year-old dance teacher, who moved from Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, nine years ago and now runs a dance club in Guangdong province.
Officials issued the commemorate certificate and special award for contribution to winter tourism in Tibet. Three elder tourists were entitled as ambassador of "Tibet winter tour" recently.
Tourism officials from China and Nepal signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Tuesday to jointly boost tourism between the two countries.
Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region has received a record 10 million domestic and foreign tourists so far this year, according to the region Tourism Bureau.
Shanghai will allow transit passengers from 45 countries to stay in the city for 72 hours without a visa, following a similar policy announced by Beijing.
A child skis with the instruction of a coach at "Kuangbiao Leyuan" park in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 9, 2012. As the temperature continued to decrease, Beijing has entered skiing boom season.
Because of the high altitude, Tibet is known as snow-covered area and a winter tour there is taken no account of by most tourists. However, we still suggest our readers should plan a winter trip in Tibet due to the following reasons.
A young Chinese national charged with causing the deaths of two men in a crash on a remote road in New Zealand's South Island has been released on bail after appearing in court, according to reports Wednesday.
China has buoyed up New Zealand's tourism industry over the last two years, compensating for declining visitor numbers from traditional markets, the New Zealand government statistics agency announced Thursday.
Direct daily flights between China and New Zealand launched by China Southern Airlines one year ago have boosted Chinese visitor numbers to New Zealand by almost 40 percent, Auckland Airport announced Wednesday.
The interest of Chinese tourists in traveling to Australia continues to grow strongly with the latest Overseas Arrivals and Departures figures, Minister for Tourism Martin Ferguson said on Tuesday.
China is officially New Zealand' s second biggest tourist market, after spending by Chinese visitors jumped by 37 percent in the year to the end of September, New Zealand's Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment announced Tuesday.
Cambodia attracted some 2.57 million international visitors in the first nine months of this year, a 24 percent rise compared with the same period last year, a report of the Ministry of Tourism showed Wednesday.
Sanya, a tropical city of South China's island province of Hainan, will apply for being the host city of the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-2015 and 2017-2018, the organizing committee said on Tuesday.
A cross-Strait travel fair kicked off in Taipei on Friday, offering the Chinese mainland and Taiwan an opportunity to showcase tourist attractions and market their tourism products.
Cheung King Lok of Hong Kong, China Thursday triumphed in the sixth stage of 2012 Tour of Hainan.
Tourists visiting China's southernmost province of Hainan will soon be able to buy more kinds of duty-free items with a higher purchase limit, under measures announced on Wednesday by the Ministry of Finance (MOF).
The passenger movements at Singapore's Changi Airport rose 4.8 percent on year in September, slower than the surge of 10.9 percent annually in August, Changi Airport Group released on Friday.
Boracay Island in the central Philippine province of Aklan will likely achieve its target of one million tourist arrivals this month, an offical said Friday.
Armenia and the European Union (EU) initialed an agreement in Brussels Thursday on visa facilitation and readmission, local media reported.
The number of mainland tourists to Taiwan during this year's week-long National Day holiday tripled, a spokesman said on Wednesday.
In a tea house named GuangMing at Barkhor Street in southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, there are a variety of people, such as religious believers, tourists, local Tibetans.In a word, life here is cozy and full of surprise.With only 0.6 Yuan, you can buy a cup of sweet tea in Guang Ming Sweet Tea House.
Besides the numerous myths that surround them, hot springs in Tibet play an important role in traditional Tibetan medicine, both as therapy and as part of the wellness routine.
China's "Golden Week" holiday justified its title with a rise in tourism revenue, National Tourism Administration (NTA) statistics showed Sunday.
Besides the numerous myths that surround them, hot springs in Tibet play an important role in traditional Tibetan medicine, both as therapy and as part of the wellness routine.
Tibet Autonomous Region in southwest China is expected to receive a daily average of 80,000 tourists during the ongoing National Day holiday, local tourism authorities said.
The number of travelers in major scenic spots across China had totaled 4.27 million by 5 p.m. on Monday, as Chinese people are enjoying an eight-day National Day holiday.
In the first week of every October, South Korea anticipates a major influx of Chinese visitors in search of sightseeing and shopping.
A new high-speed railway connecting central China's Zhengzhou City and the eastern city of Wuhan opened on Friday morning, easing traffic pressure ahead of a boom in passenger numbers during the coming National Day holiday.
A faster way of travel but with higher cost, high-speed rail in China continues to divide opinion.
Reservations for over 52,000 seats on two Japanese carriers' flights between Japan and China in the September-to-November period have been canceled amid strained bilateral ties, the companies' officials said Tuesday.
The tourism industries of other countries in the region are set to benefit from the arrival of more Chinese mainland travelers during the coming Golden Week holiday, after scores of agents canceled planned travel groups to Japan.
China's Ministry of Railways (MOR) said Sunday it will prioritize the punctuality of trains during the upcoming eight-day holiday starting on Sept. 30.
It is estimated tourism expenditure in Australia to grow by 5.9 per cent to 71.9 billion U. S. dollars in 2012/13 from Chinese visitors and locals, according to a latest report on Friday by IBISWorld, the independent publisher of U.S. industry research.
Air France-KLM Group, Europe's largest airline, is rolling out an ambitious investment plan of "several hundred million euros" to boost its competitive edge in the industry and is planning to develop Chinese social media products on board to appeal to customers in China, one of its fastest growing markets.
Delegates from 37 Asian and European countries met here to seek ways in developing economic potentialities that can be sourced from heritage cities.
Chen Yunlin, the mainland's top negotiator on cross-Strait affairs, on Wednesday wrapped up a 10-day visit to Taiwan designed to promote cooperation in cultural and creative industries.
The first direct air route between Hohhot, capital of north China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, and Hong Kong was launched on Monday.
The United States has imposed travel restrictions for its employees throughout Pakistan following angry protest demonstrations against the anti-Islam film, the U.S. embassy said Tuesday.
Shao said Chinese travelers stayed an average of 11 days in the US, while US tourists stayed 12.6 days in China on average.Tian Ping, general manager of China Travel Service Shandong Ltd, expects to see continuous growth with the improvement in the visa process.
Chinese tourists spent an average of 7,107 U.S. dollars each while visiting the U.S. last year, up 14 percent from a year ago, a senior official from the National Tourism Administration (NTA) said Tuesday.
China's Hainan Province is expected to become one of the world's leading tourism destinations in a decade, according to a report released here on Monday by the World Travel &Tourism Council (WTTC).
As health officials in France investigate two suspected cases of hantavirus infections connected to Yosemite National Park in California state of the United States, the European CDC has also issued a travel alert.
The establishment of a tourism organization in Beijing on Saturday has trained the spotlight on China's tourism industry, which experts hope will spur the sluggish world economy.
Asia's largest ski resort is expected to open by the end of the year on Changbai Mountain in northeast China's Jilin Province, according to local authorities.
Tourist itineraries will also be upgraded such as the 317 National Highway, 318 National Highway for self-driving, and cycling which enjoys popularity among tourists in recent years.
China is likely to see a tourism boom during this year's upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays, according to a report released by the China Tourism Academy on Tuesday.
Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region is expected to receive a record 10 million-plus tourists this year, a local tourism official said Monday. These tourists will bring revenue of 12 billion yuan (1.89 billion U.S.
Malaysia registered 2.4 percent increase in tourist arrivals with more than 11.6 million tourists visited the country in the first six months of 2012, local media reported Friday.
The number of Chinese visitors to Denmark will grow at an annual rate of 20 to 30 percent over the next few years, Ole Sohn, Danish minister for business and growth, has predicted during a visit to Beijing.
Egypt's Tourism Minister Mohamed Hisham Zaazou said on Sunday that several meetings with the Chinese tourist sector will be held during Morsi's visit to Beijingto increase the tourist flows into Egypt.
An investment program on Tibetan tourism was carried out jointly by the Chengdu Branch of the Export-Import Bank of China and the Tourism Bureau of southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region.
The Qinghai-Tibet Railway has seen another peak travel season as the 2012 Shoton Festival begins from August 17th with flocks of tourists from home and abroad coming.
The Buddhist Association of China is strongly opposed to a plan for a public offering by a tourism development company that provides services around a sacred Buddhist mountain in East China.
Canadians took nearly 2.8 million overnight trips abroad in June, the highest monthly figure since record keeping began in 1972, the national statistical agency said Tuesday.
Tourism Australia inked a groundbreaking deal that will see almost 10 million U.S. dollars pumped into marketing projects with China's largest and fastest growing international airline, China Southern Airlines.
New Zealand's earthquake- battered second city of Christchurch received a boost Wednesday when the country's biggest tourism market lifted a travel warning on the city and the surrounding Canterbury region.
Britain launched a worldwide campaign to promote post-Olympic tourism on Tuesday, with high expectations for the Chinese market.
Takahashi also said the company would increase the volume of sales made through tie-ups with travel agencies in China, where his company has already obtained permission from the Chinese government.
That's a question now circulating on the Internet. The reconstruction of Taohuawu, which literally translates as "the Peach Blossom Dock", was announced two years ago.Ye Peikun argued that his family has legal ownership of the house, saying it is a historical antiquity and therefore should be protected.
In Tashigang village, a scenic spot in southeast Tibet's Nyingchi prefecture, tourism income increased to 1.5 million yuan ($235,800) in 2011, or 61 percent of the entire year's revenues.
New Zealand's domestic tourism sector showed signs of a resurgence in June, figures from the government statistics agency showed Friday.
dollars) in the year ending June, Chinese visitors spent 27 percent more than the year to June 2011, according to the International Visitor Survey from the Minister of Business, Innovation and Employment.
Since the 1980s, I don’t know how many times I have walked along the road from Lhasa to Sagya via Yangzhog Yumco, Gyangze Town and Shigatse, so the scenery along the road holds no surprises. It is only when we arrive at Ongren Ngamring that new sights impinge on my consciousness.
Khada, a white silk scarf symbolizing respect and blessing among Tibetans, becomes popular among tourists as Tibet enters peak tourism season.
Shangri-La is a word created by British author James Hilton in his 1933 novel "Lost Horizon", which won popularity at a time when the Second World War made people disappointed with the real life.
Mexico and South Korea on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen cooperation in tourism, Mexico's Tourism Ministry announced.
Rescue workers pump water from a section of the Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao Expressway in Fengtai district of Beijing on Monday afternoon.
Foreigners are likely to find it easier to travel between Beijing and Tianjin, municipalities in North China, with the help of "expresspay cards" that were introduced on Saturday.
The total expenditure of Hong Kong residents making personal travel to China's mainland amounted to HK$35.6 billion ($4.59 billion) in 2011, said the Census and Statistics Department on Tuesday.
Macao's visitor arrivals in package tours in May increased by 11.7 percent year on year to 669,460, according to figures released Friday by the city's Statistics and Census Service (DSEC).
The U.S. has processed more than 1 million visa applications in China to date in fiscal year 2012, almost up 43 percent over the same period last fiscal year, the U.S.
More than 12,000 people visited the north slope of Mount Qomolangma in the first half of this year, according to the border police in southwest China's Tibet autonomous region.
9 million in May, down 0.3 percent from May last year, continuing a decline that began from a high in July last year, according to Statistics New Zealand.International visitors spent 700,000 guest nights in New Zealand in May, accounting for 35 percent of the total, down from 36 percent in May 2011.
Fiji's education authorities are considering to introduce Mandarin Chinese into the Pacific island nation's educational curriculum, local website Fijivillage reported on Wednesday.
