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News on Tourism & Travel In China

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Holiday spending

Japan, Canada and Korea see China tourist surge
Feb 10, 2012 (WiC 137)

This year more than a million tourists turned up on Hainan island, often referred to as China’s Hawaii, for R&R over the Lunar New Year – which occurred late last month. But by the end of the holiday, many were neither relaxed nor ...

Travelling salesmen

Popular travel booking website Ctrip suddenly has a lot of competition
Oct 21, 2011 (WiC 126)

China’s tourist officials had a bright idea in 1999. In order to promote domestic tourism they created a one week holiday surrounding the October 1 National Day, and called it Golden Week. It has been a spectacular success (although those ...

Know your client

InterContinental is designing new hotels specifically for Chinese guests
Jun 24, 2011 (WiC 112)

InterContinental Hotels boasts that it’s been around in China since 1984. So why decide only now to “Sinify” its hotel product? The main reason, the hotel chain says, is that just offering ‘international’ standards isn’t good ...

City in Anhui to open hotel shaped like a ping-pong paddle
Apr 1, 2011 (WiC 101)

China is taking its love of table tennis to a new level. The city of Huainan in Anhui province is planning to build a 150-metre tall hotel designed in the shape of a ping-pong bat. But why a table tennis racquet? As it turns out, “a ...

Grave reservations

China’s hotel building binge has led to overcapacity and low occupancy
Mar 11, 2011 (WiC 98)

Three weeks ago the Shangri-La Group opened a Kerry Hotel in Shanghai. Local media raved about its facilities (even a micro-brewery, it seems) but the glitzy launch may mask a more serious problem. There are already plenty of empty hotel rooms in ...

China’s Niseko?

Club Med wants you to ski at its new Chinese resort
Jan 7, 2011 (WiC 90)

Most people do not think of China as a skiing destination. That’s a perception the Chinese would like to change. China has looked at Hokkaido’s success and decided to try and build comparable ski resorts to Japan’s in Heilongjiang. The ...

Fosun’s French connection

Club Med gets a Chinese investor and potentially a lot of Chinese customers
Jul 23, 2010 (WiC 70)

You may not have heard of Fosun Group. It’s more likely that you’re familiar with Club Med, the French travel group that pioneered the all-inclusive vacation. In June, China’s largest non-government controlled conglomerate Fosun bought a ...

Welcome wallets

Why Oxford Street loves Chinese spenders
Apr 23, 2010 (WiC 57)

In some of London’s shopping districts there’s a new sense of excitement when Mandarin speakers enter a store. That’s because – according to UK newspaper the Telegraph – the Chinese consumer is riding to the rescue of embattled West ...

Reds under the bed

State firms to offload their hotel empires
Feb 19, 2010 (WiC 50)

Wang Yong, director of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) has never had to reserve a hotel room when going on domestic business trips. That’s because CNPC owns over 200 hotels around the country. You may wonder why the country’s ...

The virtues of vice

Macau’s casinos are first to bounce back
Oct 23, 2009 (WiC 35)

Stocks markets may go up and down but no matter what the economy is doing people will drink, smoke and gamble. It is reasoning familiar to those who celebrate “vice” stocks as recession-proof picks. But in recent months the casino industry ...

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