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News on Tourism & Travel In China

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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 ...

A suite homecoming

Hotelier returns to Shanghai
Oct 23, 2009 (WiC 35)

For the past 60 years, Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels was a company with a rather misleading name. It didn’t actually have a hotel in Shanghai. This misnomer was finally remedied last Sunday when its Peninsula Hotel opened on the city’s ...

See Taipei – don’t go home

An unusual form of tourism hasn’t marred relations across the Straits
Sep 18, 2009 (WiC 31)

Chinese tourists to Taiwan have come up with a new island adventure that’s not advertised in the brochures. Going AWOL. Last month two men from Sichuan ‘did a runner’ in Taiwan. Before that, a man who joined a Taiwan-bound tour group ...

The Italian job

Tourism bosses in Rome have a plan to attract more Chinese visitors
Jul 10, 2009 (WiC 23)

The Chinese love Venice. But the Italians are ruing that it seems to be the one in Macau they like best, and not the real thing. That was one of the conclusions drawn by Italy’s tourism authority during a state visit from China’s leader Hu ...

Wish you were here

Chinese tourists have become big business – in China and further afield
Apr 3, 2009 (WiC 9)

They certainly didn’t find their lodging among the myriad options listed in Lonely Planet’s Italian edition, but it was a place to stay nonethless. Milan city police were astounded recently to find a group of illegal Chinese travellers ...

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