Category: Travel & Leisure

Foreign travel agents will be allowed to set up franchise branches on the mainland this year, two years before China is required to do so under World Trade Organisation rules, reported HKiMail. Under the pilot scheme, large agencies from the US, Germany and Japan will be allowed to set up sole-proprietor branches this year to […]

Officials in the ancestral home of President Jiang Zemin hope to turn the village into a tourist attraction, according to South China Morning Post. Jiangwan in Jiangxi province is being presented as ‘the native land of a great man’ and a billboard bearing Jiang’s calligraphy has been erected on the main road leading to the […]

The US-headquartered mid-price hotel group Howard Johnson has opened its first property in China. The 230-room four-star Beijing Howard Johnson Paragon Hotel is the first of six Howard Johnson hotels due to open in China this year; the others will be in Shanghai, Qufu, Chengdu, Nanjing and Hangzhou. All will be management contracts and all […]

Concord World Group of Hong Kong plans to build a replica of the Titanic in a huge new Shanghai shopping mall, South China Morning Post said. The 269- metre-long replica will be moored to the group’s Xiehe World Square shopping mall in Nanjing Road as the centrepiece of the mall’s �New York zone’, one of […]

The Hong Kong-based luxury hotel group Shangri-La Asia plans to invest US$400m in China over the next four years in new hotels and an expansion of its existing property in Pudong. New hotels are planned in the Puxi area of Shanghai and in Fuzhou, capital of Fujian province. "The Chinese economy is seen as quite […]