“Chinese Tour Groups Suck”
At Startup Grind on Medium (h/t Matthew Sheehan’s Chinafornia newsletter), Panpan Wang...
by Samuel Wade | Apr 27, 2017
At Startup Grind on Medium (h/t Matthew Sheehan’s Chinafornia newsletter), Panpan Wang...
by Anne Henochowicz | Sep 30, 2016
A record number of Chinese tourists have traveled outside of the mainland this year, and Hong Kong...
by Cindy | Sep 7, 2016
As many Chinese—encouraged by official media—see their country as the target of foreign plots,...
by Samuel Wade | Apr 5, 2016
Growing tourism between China and Taiwan is part of an array of heightened contacts meant, from...
by Josh Rudolph | Sep 23, 2014
As notoriously smoggy cities and a rising yuan seem to be discouraging inbound tourism to mainland...
by Josh Rudolph | May 1, 2014
After Hu Yaobang died a quarter-century ago last month, thousands of Peking University students...
by Josh Rudolph | Mar 12, 2014
Earlier this week, human rights and cultural preservation NGO International Campaign for Tibet...
by Cindy | Feb 4, 2014
Following calls for China to draw up a blueprint of the country’s objectives in the Arctic...
by Cindy | Feb 4, 2014
While President Xi Jinping’s austerity measures have been curtailing official extravagance,...
by Samuel Wade | Jan 16, 2014
The number of foreign tourists visiting Beijing last year is set to show a nearly 10% drop from...
by Josh Rudolph | Oct 4, 2013
Beginning each year around the anniversary of the founding of the PRC, the 7-day national holiday...
by 不忘初心 | Aug 6, 2013
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...
by Josh Rudolph | Apr 28, 2013
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...
by Josh Rudolph | Apr 7, 2013
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...
by Josh Rudolph | Apr 5, 2013
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...
by Melissa M. Chan | Dec 16, 2012
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...
by Melissa M. Chan | Jul 1, 2012
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...
by Sophie Beach | Mar 21, 2012
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...