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News on Tourism & Travel In China

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A messy family feud over a cultural inheritance
Aug 28, 2015 (WiC 293)

The Qingming Festival is believed to have originated on the mountain named Mianshan in Shanxi province. Legend has it that the tradition was inspired 2,500 years ago by Jie Zitui, a loyal retainer who cut a piece from his own leg to feed his ...

So long, Hong Kong

Taipei, Seoul and Tokyo are luring increasing numbers of Chinese tourists
Feb 27, 2015 (WiC 272)

China may offer carmakers their biggest market, but many of the nation’s drivers are inexperienced and roundly ignore traffic codes. And with millions of Chinese travelling abroad during this Lunar New Year holiday, that has meant China’s ...

Authorities to punish unruly passengers
Jan 9, 2015 (WiC 265)

It is said that good things come to those who wait, and Guo Guangchang has done his share of waiting. For more than 18 months since Fosun – the conglomerate that Guo controls – first made its offer for French resort operator Club Med, he has ...

Is the slowdown in Macau’s gaming revenue cyclical or structural?
Nov 14, 2014 (WiC 260)

"The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning,” writes Ian Fleming in the opening line of his first James Bond novel, Casino Royale. “Then the soul-erosion produced by high gambling – a compost ...

UnionPay data highlights holiday spending
Oct 17, 2014 (WiC 256)

At the climax of the 1999 film Fight Club Tyler Durden blows up company buildings storing credit card records. If the film was scripted again today, he would have to destroy many more locations in order to “set everyone free” from ...

Unlonely Planet

Peer-to-peer travel trend hits China
Sep 5, 2014 (WiC 251)

L uo Zhun first travelled to the United States in 2011, visiting six cities in less than two weeks. He wasn’t very satisfied with the experience. The whole time he felt like a “caged animal,” Luo told Hangzhou Daily. Partly that was because ...

Some hoteliers no longer want five stars
Feb 7, 2014 (WiC 225)

The Burj Al Arab set new standards for luxury when it opened in 1999 in Dubai. Guests got a private butler and a small army of valets if they booked the Royal Suite (at the princely price of $18,716 a night, CNN reported). The hotel was soon ...

He likes holidays

Fosun’s boss betting billions building hotels
Oct 18, 2013 (WiC 212)

Are Guo Guangchang’s investment decisions guided by his wife’s shopping habits? In 2011, the president of Fosun, China’s largest private conglomerate, told reporters that he had bought a 9.5% stake in the Greek jewellery and luxury goods ...

Tougher times for luxury hotel chains
Jun 7, 2013 (WiC 196)

The White Swan Hotel in Guangzhou – the inaugural five-star lodging in China – can also lay claim to being the first Sino-foreign joint venture in the hotel industry. It got the regulatory go-ahead to open in 1979 and was part of Deng ...

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 ...

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