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Hotels try optimism

Mainland China has so far suffered an 8.2% drop in foreign visitor numbers this year  —  in line generally with the rest of the world. The United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) says that across the globe tourism numbers have dropped this year by 8%, due to the combined effects of the H1N1 or swine […]

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Flying high

Continental Airlines’ managing director for sales and marketing expects travel between the US and China to soar

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Consumer education

Stanley Wang, managing director of HRS Asia Pacific, on teaching China to book online

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Tobacco road

Graham Earnshaw walks west from Shanghai when he has the time, always starting from the last place he stopped. This month we find him near Wuyiqiao Village in Chongqing Municipality

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China's tourism industry thrives

Many Chinese are again planning to travel abroad during the National Day holidays. In the past, an outbound trip was a luxury that few could afford. But that has changed over the past few decades as the country has grown more prosperous. Outbound travel to Hong Kong began in 1983 when the Chinese government first […]