The China Daily reports that when it is finished in 2014 the Shanghai Tower J Hotel might set the world record as the highest hotel. (The reason for the use of the word ‘might’ is that hotel builders have a habit of adding a tower at the last moment to grab the record.) The hotel […]
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November passenger volume at China Eastern Airlines, the country’s third-largest carrier, rose 40.26% year-on-year to 5.06 million. Coming from a year that was fairly low it is still a staggering increase. Passenger throughput on its domestic flights increased 39.4% year-on-year to 4.34 million last month. Passenger load factor rose 2.03 percentage points to 75.74%. And […]
Club Med (CU.Euronext) opened its first resort in China on Tuesday as it bids to cash in on a newfound love for winter sports among the country’s rich, AFP reported. The French leisure group has built an 18-slope ski village in Yabuli, an area in China’s northeast where winter temperatures often fall below minus 30 […]
China Southern Airlines will fly from Guangzhou to Auckland via Melbourne starting in April. The airline had previously indicated it would start service to New Zealand via Brisbane starting last month. Air New Zealand flies a combined five times a week to Beijing and Shanghai but there is more than enough traffic to make the […]
As many as 100,000 hotel rooms are coming on to the market in China this year which may cause a glut. Last year, occupancy in five-star hotels in Beijing was reported to be just 47.5%, with room rates averaging a modest RMB836 (US$126). Hotels blamed the global economic crisis and the end of the 2008 […]