As the Communist leader is promoted once more by party leadership, his hometown is seeing a booming business in tourism and souvenirs. Residents say Mao would be happy to see them get rich. In his life-time he worried about "the serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants". He was right to be worried. A […]
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Seychelles wants tourists
The Republic of Seychelles, a small island nation in the western Indian Ocean, currently gets something around 1,000 Chinese tourists a year. In fact, that is probably an exagerration and it only reaches three figures. So the Seychelles would please like a lot more. Seychelles President James A. Michel at the Seychelles Tourism Seminar […]
According to the National Holiday Office of China, holiday travel over the October 1 National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival period saw 228 million tourists during the holiday, of which 52.77 million were overnight tourists, and 176 million were day-trip visitors. The 39 key tourist cities that are in the holiday forecast system – including Beijing, […]
How do I love you? Let me count the ways, especially if you are a potential tourist. Wicklow in Ireland has a tourist blog to encourage visitors to come to Wicklow County in Ireland — a lovely spot and well worth a detour. Most other destinations have such a site and most of them take […]
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Hainan Airlines to Hawaii
China’s Hainan Airlines has received approval to begin service from Beijing to Hawaii. The US Department of Transportation approved the flights, which initially will be once-a-week. The trips probably will not begin until early next year. The airline, which is privately owned, already flies four times a week from China to Seattle. State tourism […]