“Chinese Tour Groups Suck”
At Startup Grind on Medium (h/t Matthew Sheehan’s Chinafornia newsletter), Panpan Wang...
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LatestHong Kong’s Onion Interviews Chinese Tourists
A record number of Chinese tourists have traveled outside of the mainland this year, and Hong Kong...
Anxiety Increasing for Chinese Overseas
As many Chinese—encouraged by official media—see their country as the target of foreign plots,...
A Travel Agency’s Warning for Tourists in Taiwan
Growing tourism between China and Taiwan is part of an array of heightened contacts meant, from...
Interview With Hong Mei, Author of ‘The Farther I Walk, The Closer I Get to Me’
As notoriously smoggy cities and a rising yuan seem to be discouraging inbound tourism to mainland...
Tensions Show as Tiananmen Museum Opens in HK
After Hu Yaobang died a quarter-century ago last month, thousands of Peking University students...
Microbloggers Reveal Militarization in Tibet
Earlier this week, human rights and cultural preservation NGO International Campaign for Tibet...
Rise in Chinese Tours to Antarctica Causes Alarm
Following calls for China to draw up a blueprint of the country’s objectives in the Arctic...
Catering to the Chinese Shopper’s Grand Tour
While President Xi Jinping’s austerity measures have been curtailing official extravagance,...
Trends Shift in Tourism To and From China
The number of foreign tourists visiting Beijing last year is set to show a nearly 10% drop from...
Golden Week 2013: Travel Woes and Unruly Behavior
Beginning each year around the anniversary of the founding of the PRC, the 7-day national holiday...
Uncouth Chinese Tourists in North Korea
Since Beijing’s approval of North Korea as a travel destination in 2008, the bad behavior of some Chinese tourists has unsettled their hosts. From Kristine Servando at South China Morning Post: Simon Cockerell, of Koryo...
Watchmakers Fret Over China Sales Slump
Luxury watchmakers, who have in recent years seen massive sales growth in the Chinese market, have since last summer seen that growth stifled. While President Xi Jinping’s campaign to cleanup corruption and crack down...
China to Open Disputed Islands to Tourism
Reuters reports that China will soon be allowing tourists to visit disputed islands in the South China Sea: China will this month start allowing tourists to visit the Paracel Islands, one of a group of disputed islets and reefs...
Chinese Tourists Now World’s Top Spenders
According to the United Nations World Tourism Organization, Chinese tourists now spend more travelling abroad than vacationers from any other country. The Wall Street Journal reports: With their matching hats and...
Britain Looks to China for Christmas Cheer
As Britain is split over attracting Chinese tourists and visa plans posing a security threat, AFP reports Britain is now looking towards Chinese tourists for Christmas cheer: Congee and dumplings are on the breakfast menu at...
China Hires North Korean Guest Workers
While China denies accusations of exporting missile vehicles to North Korea, China is hiring thousands of guest workers from North Korea. The Los Angeles Times reports: The deal, which has not been publicly announced by either...
Children of China’s Future
Yale Global is publishing a two-part series that will look at, “widening inequality in China and its effects on children.” The first article, written by Pallavi Aiyar, describes a tour of Europe organized for the...
