As the largest home port in Asia for cruise liners following investment of RMB1.28 billion (US$192.7 million), Tianjin International Cruise Home Port is expected to have hosted a total of 100 luxury cruise liners by 2015 with an estimated 250,000 to 300,000 passengers. The port lies at the south end of Dongjiang Bonded Port Area […]
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MGM Resorts International is partnering with Diaoyutai State Guesthouse to open hotels in Beijing, Sanya, Tianjin, Chengdu and Shanghai between 2011 and 2014. The Diaoyutai Art Hotel in Beijing will open August 2011. MGM Resorts emphasizes it is not affiliated with MGM Studios, which is a separate entity with no common ownership. The latter filed […]
Designated airlines of ASEAN member states will soon be able to fly and carry traffic from their respective capitals and any city with an international airport in its territory to its counterpart in the other member states as well as to and from China. This comes after the signing of a multilateral agreement by ASEAN’s […]
Abacus International will now have all of the flights of Juneyao Airlines on its Global Distribution System (GDS). This gives Juneyao Airlines the opportunity to sell its flights to more than 20,000 travel agency locations across 24 markets region-wide. Juneyao is a privately owned airline based in Shanghai, operating domestic services using Airbus aircraft out […]
The Shanghai government has signed up Walt Disney to build the sixth international Disneyland. It will be the second in China. Disneyland will open some time between 2014 and 2015 and is projected to bring in more than RMB10 billion (US$1.5 billion) additional tourist revenue for Shanghai. The first Disneyland Park, in Anaheim, California, was […]