China’s tourism market is gearing up for the Shanghai World Expo. Note that although the Expo itself is being held in Shanghai other cities in China will be making the most of the occasion and doing tie-ins to encourage more and wider tourism.
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Regal Kangbo Hotel, when it opens next year, will be the only five-star international hotel in Dezhou, Shandong Province, China.
Growth of travel
A new PhoCusWright report, “Emerging Online Travel Marketplace in China,” suggests that after a 4% drop in 2009, travel bookings in China will grow by 5% in 2010.
The Expo in the news
Expo to feature pavilion for the disabled The Shanghai World Expo Committee has recently unveiled plans to create the first-ever pavilion for the disabled, complete with an emblem and mascot. The 1,200 square-meter "Life Sunshine" pavilion was designed with the hope of "shining the light of care on each and every disabled," and will include […]
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Graham Earnshaw walks west from Shanghai when he has the time, always starting from the last place he stopped. This month we find him in the eastern part of the Sichuan basin