Hainan Airlines will begin three flights a week between Sydney, Shenzhen and Hangzhou on January 19. Australia, particularly Sydney, is a popular destination for holiday travelers. Russell Balding, chief executive officer of Sydney Airport, said that the number of travelers from China to Sydney has risen from 185,000 in 2004 to 285,000 in 2009. This […]
Category: Travel & Leisure
The excellently named Hotel-Zzz, a Shenzhen-based boutique hotel owned by Rainbow Brothers, is the training venue for Miss China Pageant 2010 – Southern China Region. Danny Yeung, general manager of hotel business for Rainbow Brothers, said, "Hotel-Zzz combines Eastern and Western design trends, which is consistent with the theme of Miss China. Under the cozy […]
InterContinental Hotels Group has launched Hotel Indigo on the Bund in Shanghai (it actually opens next month). At the launch IHG showed a 3-D film that provided information about the hotel’s historic location. The film was shown on the 23-meter wide and 69.9-meter high facade of the new Hotel Indigo and was the largest outdoor […]
A three-month system debug has begun on the Nanjing section of the Shanghai-Wuhan-Chengdu high-speed railway before it goes into operation next year. The high-speed rail will cut travel time from Hefei, capital city of Anhui province, to southwest China’s Chongqing and Chengdu by more than 60%, although the ticket prices will probably rise by the […]
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG; IHG.NYSE, IHG.LSE) said it expects its Greater China operations – which cover the mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong – to grow larger than its business in the US by 2025, the South China Morning Post reported. IHG, which currently has the largest China presence among international hotel companies, is embarking on […]