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...
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LatestInside The Biggest Human Migration On Earth
This week China is experiencing its annual migration as citizens return to their hometowns to...
The Great Chinese Exodus
At the Wall Street Journal, Andrew Browne explores the various reasons Chinese citizens choose to...
“Being Traveled”: China Sends Activists on Holidays
AFP’s Tom Hancock describes China’s occasional practice of sending activists on forced...
Map Visualizes Chinese New Year Migration
As the Chinese New Year (January 31) quickly approaches, an expected 3.6 billion trips will be...
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...
China Expects 3.6 Bln Trips Over Lunar New Year
With the Year of the Snake reaching its tail end, China has now officially...
High-Speed Rail Network To Be Doubled
Mark Stone at Sky News spoke to passengers on China’s high-speed trains about the...
China’s Bohemian Wanderlust Not For Everyone
While some well-to-do young Chinese have opted out of the smog and drudgery of rapid urbanization...
Looking Deeper Into The Yangtze River
The Sydney Morning Herald’s National Travel Editor Anthony Dennis describes his cruise from Chongqing to Shanghai, revealing what makes the Yangtze River attractive from his own perspective after the construction of the...
China Uses Passports as Political Cudgel
The Chinese made a record 83 million trips abroad last year, reflecting the increasing prosperity of the country’s growing middle class. But at least 14 million people, mostly Tibetans and Uyghurs, are denied the chance to...
Photographing China, from Rich to Poor, East to West
The New York Times highlights two photography projects aiming to capture different aspects of China’s diversity. Following a six-month photographic trip across the United States, Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer...
Air Rage on the Rise in China
As China’s private airlines gain in the stock market, there has been a rise in ‘air rage’ by travelers who experience delayed flights, from the Telegraph: One reaction to a hold-up at Shanghai’s main...
Holiday Hordes: Good for the Economy?
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...
Former Taiwan Premier to Visit China
As Hu Jintao seems to be reaching for better cross-straits relations with Taiwan, former DPP chairman Frank Hsieh will make a ‘trailblazing’ visit to China. From Shanghaiist: Former chairman of Taiwan’s Democratic...
The “Disneyfication of Tibet”
As China’s inbound international tourism continues to grow along with the numbers of potential domestic ticket buyers, China is experiencing an amusement park boom, and is expected to have more theme parks than the USA by...
China-US Visa Requests at Record Levels
So far this year, the visa applications from China to the United States have hit 1 million, due to Obama’s “initiative to boost international tourism”. From China Daily: President Barack Obama’s initiative to boost...
China to Build £3bn Theme Park in Tibet
The Chinese government has begun work on a £3-billion (approximately US$4.65 billion) theme park on the outskirts of Lhasa, the capital of the troubled Tibetan Autonomous Region. Despite the huge potential economic interests...
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