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News on Tourism & Travel In China

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Discounts galore in online travel agency booking battle
Dec 7, 2012 (WiC 175)

Another week, another price war. After 360Buy grabbed headlines in September for opening hostilities with electronics retailers Suning and Gome, two of the country’s largest online travel agents are going head-to-head too. In fact, Ctrip and ...

Paris without the French

Adelson sees no end to the growth in his revenues in Macau
Sep 28, 2012 (WiC 166)

In 1999, Las Vegas sought to attract new visitors by building the Paris Las Vegas, a 50-storey replica of the Eiffel Tower. It proved popular, especially an observation deck atop the 165-metre structure. Not to be outdone, Macau now wants to ...

Room at the inn

Budget hotels start to feel the pinch
Jul 6, 2012 (WiC 157)

In the 1950s a new sort of hotel started appearing next to exits on US highways. They were budget hotels with names like Comfort Inns, Motel 6 and Days Inn – and they charged just $6 a room. Fifty years later, budget chains started to sprout in ...

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 ...

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