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News on Tourism & Travel In China

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Meeting Mickey, in a mask

WiC takes a tour of the newly reopened Disneyland in Shanghai
May 15, 2020 (WiC 495)

The House of Mouse is back. Shanghai Disneyland reopened this week after shutting up shop for 107 days (owing to the coronavirus). But is the fantasy kingdom set to flourish or will the Disney dream become a more dystopian world of social ...

The buds of May

China’s tourism sector hopes for domestic boost
May 1, 2020 (WiC 493)

International Labour Day, on May 1, dates back to the 1880s, when workers around the world rallied for more rights, including an eight-hour limit on the working day. But the holiday this year finds millions of workers already at home because ...

Travel giant restructures its China business
Mar 20, 2020 (WiC 487)

Who’d want to be a boss in the travel industry right now? Hotels are closed, airlines are grounded, and countries are closing their borders to non-nationals. Some of the worst trading conditions in history are the backdrop to a story from ...

Sometimes the house loses

Macau imposes half-month casino ban amid coronavirus outbreak
Feb 14, 2020 (WiC 482)

Such was the clamour to get into the Sands Macao on opening night in May 2004 that many of the casino’s doors were ripped off their hinges. The scenes this week in the former Portuguese colony couldn’t have been more different. All 41 of ...

Planning their trip

TripAdvisor gets big China ally for sales push
Nov 22, 2019 (WiC 475)

In Chinese folklore, owls aren’t the most auspicious of birds in part because their hoot is said to sound like the word for digging a grave. That hasn’t stopped TripAdvisor from embracing its owl logo in China. Back in 2015, it even changed ...

Disney hit by Shanghai lawsuit over its ban on bringing food into its park
Aug 30, 2019 (WiC 464)

KFC and McDonald’s offerings in China can be vastly different from their menus elsewhere in the world (see WiC462 for more on KFC’s success selling late-night offal). But while foreign brands are keen to cater to local tastes in China, they ...

Crossing the water

New bridge brings a million people to Macau in first two months
Feb 8, 2019 (WiC 440)

Resentment at the smoking ban in Macau’s casinos smoulders on, it seems. We first wrote about the restrictions four years ago (see WiC260) but they clearly still rankle: last month a police officer even had to fire a warning shot during a clash ...

Lacking the personal touch

New Alibaba hotel in Hangzhou hopes to dispense with human workers
Nov 23, 2018 (WiC 433)

Generally speaking, hotels love to talk up the ‘people skills’ of their staff when they are promoting their services. Not so at Flyzoo, Alibaba’s new unmanned hotel in Hangzhou. There, the front-of-house work is done by robots and by ...

A time less golden

National Day holiday sparks a horrific week for travellers
Oct 6, 2017 (WiC 383)

Cathay Pacific reinforced its position as Hong Kong’s flagship carrier in 2006 by buying out local rival Dragonair from Chinese investors including the Citic Group. However, a new competitor emerged in the same year: Hainan Airlines, part of ...

No stars out of five

Premium hotels in damage control after cleanliness survey spooks guests
Sep 22, 2017 (WiC 381)

In 2016, American news magazine Inside Edition released a report suggesting that three out of nine New York hotels in its study weren’t changing bedsheets after guests checked out. A separate 2012 review on contamination levels in hotel rooms ...

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