Hong Kong’s Onion Interviews Chinese Tourists
A record number of Chinese tourists have traveled outside of the mainland this year, and Hong Kong...
Sep 30, 2016
A record number of Chinese tourists have traveled outside of the mainland this year, and Hong Kong...
Oct 8, 2013
Heavy smog descended over northern China last weekend, trapping hundreds of thousands of...
Oct 4, 2013
Beginning each year around the anniversary of the founding of the PRC, the 7-day national holiday...
Dec 6, 2012
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
Oct 18, 2012
Among the reasons that analysts believe China’s economy may have begun to stabilize, TIME calls out the record tourist numbers during this month’s Golden Week holiday and explores whether Chinese consumers can buoy...
Oct 9, 2012
CDT previously reported on China’s super rich still going all out with their Golden Week travel plans. The Wall Street Journal reports Golden Week hordes may be a good sign for the economy: A total of 34.2 million tourists...
Oct 1, 2012
As China commenced a week-long National Day vacation known as Golden Week, authorities decided to do car travelers a favor and make the roads toll-free. With train tickets for the long holiday selling out fast, and an increasing...
Sep 27, 2012
The average wealth of China’s super rich may be down this year, but that hasn’t stopped them from going all out with their “Golden Week” travel plans. From Reuters: Helen Shen, a travel planner in...
Nov 22, 2007
From Los Angeles Times: Jiang Xingjun hates holidays here. Rather than providing respite or relaxation, China’s three national vacation weeks — one observed in winter, one in spring and one in fall — are often more like hell on wheels, with jam-packed planes, trains and automobiles gone berserk, he says. On cue, hundreds of millions […]
Jul 2, 2007
From Keralanext.com: China’s government is likely to scrap up its “golden week” holiday system and make public holidays of more traditional festivals by 2009, a Chinese tourism expert has revealed. The week-long May Day holiday would be shortened to one day and the National Day holiday to two days, Zhang Hui, dean of the tourism […]