LHASA: Tibet reported a 6-percent increase in tourism revenue and at least a 4-percent rise in tourist arrivals during the 10-day Tibetan new year holiday, the regional tourism authority said Wedne ...

XI'AN �C More than 700 km of ancient Great Wall has been discovered in Gansu and Shaanxi provinces, as a result of the third national survey on cultural relics started in April, 2007 and will end in ...

MACAO: The Mandarin's House, one of Macao's world-heritage protected buildings, will open its doors to the public Friday for the first time since the restoration project began, the local Macao Post ...

With a few clicks, Beijingers will be able to get an electric ticket sent to their mobile phones that will let them visit one of the capital's top 32 tourist attractions during Spring Festival.

If you think Hawaii is too far away, Sanya, a booming city in Hainan province, can offer you a similar experience a lot closer to home for a lot less money.

Beaches, diving and seafood are ...

A historic exhibition about Qing Dynasty emperor Yongzheng, which has just wrapped up, has created a sensation in Taipei with more than 700-thousand visitors.

The ground-breaking joint proj ...

Riverdance Troupe, the well-known Irish tap dance group, will perform Jan 19 to Jan in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, following an impressive debut at last year's CCTV Spring Festival Gala.

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The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences on Wednesday announced China's six top archaeological discoveries in 2009, including the discoveries of ruins of ancient paper-making workshops and the tomb o ...

BEIJING: China's oldest Buddhist statue, which is on the brink of collapse, is about to get a 74 million yuan ($10.8 million) facelift, a ministry official said Monday.

The 1,459-year-old M ...

A bar opening tomorrow on Beiluoguxiang is the latest example of a growing trend that has seen shops take advantage of the street's proximity to Nanluoguxiang (NLGX) Pedestrian Street, minus the co ...

Foreign leaders with travel plans to scale the Great Wall might be excited about the Mutianyu section's plan to open up an additional 500 m next year.

"The main renovation and construction ...

MACAO, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- Macao recorded a total number of 368,615 tourist arrivals during this year's Christmas holidays, according to the figures released on Monday by the Immigration Department ...

China received 93.94 million overseas tourists in the first three quarters of the year, down 3.45 percent from that of the corresponding period of 2008, a tourism official said here Wednesday.

KATHMANDU, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- The tourism bureau of China's Tibet and Nepal Tourism Board(NTB) signed an Agreement for promoting tourism Monday.

    The Nepalese delega ...

LONDON, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) announced Monday that China will hold the 2010 Global Travel& Tourism Summit in Beijing.

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BEIJING, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong is the first choice of many Chinese mainland residents when they travel abroad, according to the Beijing office of Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) Friday, quoti ...

NANCHANG, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- With a posh house on the bank of the West Lake, one of China's most beautiful scenic spots in east city Hangzhou, Teng Ting, a ceramic artist, chose to live in a bathr ...

 HONG KONG, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- The outbound travel alert system came into effect on Tuesday, as an effort to help Hong Kong residents better understand the risks to their personal safety in t ...

HONG KONG, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong hopes to attract more visitors to the city by introducing improved entry schemes and more cruise trips, Donald Tsang, chief executive of the Hong Kong Speci ...

Record numbers of visitors poured through Tian'anmen Square, the Summer Palace and the Forbidden City over the past seven days revealing a new trend in all things old.

The 60th anniversary ...

 LHASA, Oct.10 (Xinhua) -- Tourism authority in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region said Saturday the plateau region hosted 295,400 domestic and overseas tourists during the past 8-day N ...

BEIJING, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- China's road, railway, civil aviation, and waterway transport sectors expect to carry a record 565 million people during the National Day holiday, according to the cou ...

LHASA, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) -- A leading official with the Tibet Autonomous Regional Tourism Administration confirmed Thursday there were no restrictions on foreigners' travel to Tibet during the Nati ...

BEIJING, Sept. 17 -- The new phase of the China Science & Technology Museum has held its opening ceremony, finally opening its gate to eager science lovers after three years of construction. Ju ...

HONG KONG, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong signed an air services agreement with Lao People's Democratic Republic here on Wednesday, setting up the legal framework for the establishment of direct air ...

The Xinjiang Kanas scenic spot signed a 5-billion-yuan ($0.73 billion) tourism investment deal on Tuesday with Oumning Suuess Limited to build Asia's largest ski resort, a Hong Kong-based energy co ...

 KATHMANDU, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- The Nepal Association of Tour and Travel Agents (NATTA) is going to organize China Road Show in various Chinese cities with the aim of promoting Nepal Tourism Y ...

Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, will build its first-ever tourist information office and service center by the end of 2011, a city official said Wednesday.

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BEIJING, Aug. 3 -- Marcus Haraldsson, a Swedish journalist and photographer, has cycled twice from Xining, capital of Qinghai province to Hong Kong with a distance of nearly 4000 kilometers for the ...

DHAKA, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- China Southern Airlines Company Limited opened Dhaka-Guangzhou flight on Sunday. A Boeing 737-800 carrying 17 passengers from Guangzhou arrived at Zia International Airpor ...

Four families in Zhabei District(Shanghai) have been selected for a pilot program to receive 2010 World Expo visitors.

Up to yesterday, 25 families had signed up to provide temporary hotel ser ...

BEIJING, July 12 -- Three mainland cities will be authorized to validate passes for Taiwan visitors entering the mainland, bringing the total to 20, according to the Ministry of Public Security Sun ...

TAIPEI, July 4 (Xinhua) -- A group of 19 underprivileged Taiwan children flew to Chengdu of the Chinese mainland's Sichuan Province Saturday at the start of a tour to study pandas.

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Tickets for the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai will go on sale to individuals Wednesday, said event organizers on Monday.

The tickets will be sold by China Mobile, China Telecom, Bank of Communic ...

BEIJING, June 28 (Xinhua) -- Tourists from Chinese mainland have made more than 350,000 trips to Taiwan so far after the travel ban was lifted a year ago.

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The World Heritage Committee it reviewing the latest list of applicants. 30 new properties have been submitted. They include Mount Songshan and Mount Wutai in China.

One of the properties i ...

Last December, a Shanghai resident Zhu Yafu appealed in his blog to select the city's new top 8 attractions which best represent the contemporary Shanghai as the Shanghai Expo approached. Now his a ...

BEIJING, June 12 -- The number of tourists visiting Shanghai city is still being affected by the global economic downturn, according to statistics released by tourism authoritie ...

Archaeologists will begin a third phase of excavation at the famous terracotta army site on Saturday, hoping to find more clay figures and unravel some of the mysteries left behind by the "First Em ...

To celebrate the fourth Cultural Heritage Day on June 13, the Cultural Relic Bureau of Henan Province has decided that all the heritage attractions in the province will open with preferential ...

  TIANJIN, June 10 (Xinhua) -- The first flight of newly-established Tianjin Airlines took ff Wednesday morning, marking the start of 20 daily flights.

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Recently, an old problem began to emerge once again whereby taxis are hard to come by during peak hours for incoming flights, due to multiple factors such as the arrival of the rainy season. Beijin ...

This week, an exhibition opens in the Southwestern city of Chongqing to display the world's most beautiful book. Titled "Uncut", the volume was created by an internationally renowned designer.

Bits of pottery discovered in a cave in southern China may be evidence of the earliest development of ceramics by ancient people.

The find in Yuchanyan Cave dates to as much as 18,000 years ...

PARIS, June 1 (Xinhua) -- Chances of finding any survivors are "very slim" as an Air France airliner with 228 people on board vanished over the Atlantic Ocean, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said ...

The Yangtze River Delta in east China has rich tourist resources. It's known for both beautiful natural scenery and historical significance. The region which combines Shanghai and parts of Jiangsu ...

In the Northwestern Chinese city of Xi'an, the second China Poetry Festival got underway on the weekend. Here's a look at the grand literary occasion.

The opening ceremony on Saturday night ...

JIANYANG, Sichuan, May 23 (Xinhua) -- Officials in southwest China's Sichuan Province, where the massive Wenchuan earthquake left more than 87,000 people dead or missing and more than 374,640 injur ...

China has unveiled another world first with the opening of an underwater museum near Fuling City in Chongqing.

The Baiheliang Museum is home to what��s claimed to be the world��s oldest hyd ...

Shanghai's tourism industry is mobilized for the World Expo 2010 in the city's tourism conference yesterday, the first pep meeting in the industry's endeavor for the Expo and the new step in the jo ...

 BEIJING, May 19 -- If you have only one night's stay in Urumqi, capital city of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, one way to savor authentic Uygur culture is to take in a performance of " ...

HEFEI, May 16 (Xinhua) -- China plans to start building a regional airport near Mount Jiuhua, one of the country's four most renowned Buddhist mountains, this year.

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The government of Yingkou in Northeast China's Liaoning province came to Beijing recently to promote its image as an emerging tourism destination and development region. Gao Zuoping, deputy mayor o ...

The world's largest dam re-opened its gates to visitors last month and we were among the first to check out this almost completed man-made wonder.

Initially opened to tourists in 2005 the T ...

 MACAO, May 13 (Xinhua) -- Macao registered 551,010 visitor arrivals in package tours in March 2009, an increase of 30.9 percent over the same period of last year, according to the figures rel ...

Chinese scientists will soon launch an excavation at a cave where the first Peking Man skull was found with an aim to find more relics of ape men who were believed to live as early as 770,000 years ...

HAIKOU, May 9 (Xinhua) -- Twenty-seven people from 15 countries have been invited to publicize tourist resources in China's southernmost province of Hainan.

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HONG KONG, May 6 (Xinhua) -- About 740 million people visited Hong Kong in the first quarter of 2009, a year-on-year rise of 1.8 percent, Hong Kong Tourism Board said here Wednesday.

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CHENGDU, May 5 (Xinhua) --Tourists from other parts of China swarmed to quake zones in southwest China's Sichuan Province and during the May 1 holiday weekend.

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BEIJING, May 4 (Xinhua) -- Tourism promotion has resulted in a travel boom in Beijing over the just-concluded Labor Day holiday, as the city recorded 3.7 million visitors from May 1 to 3, a rise of ...

NANCHANG, May 3 (Xinhua) -- Cooling, a street on world heritage site Mount Lushan in eastern China's Jiangxi Province, re-opened to tourists in the May Day holiday after a restoration project, an o ...

HONG KONG, May 3 (Xinhua) -- Substantial progress has been made in the negotiations on the expansion plans of the Hong Kong Disneyland between the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region ( HKSAR) g ...

 BEIJING, April 28 (Xinhuanet) -- Some tourist attractions in southeastern Tibet's Shannan Prefecture will open for free during the May Day holiday, according to the Tourism Bureau of the pref ...

SHENYANG, Liaoning, April 22 (Xinhua) -- The world's largest abandoned manmade mine in Fuxin City of China's northeast Liaoning Province has been converted to a park and will be ready to receive to ...

BEIJING, April 20 (Xinhuanet) -- One out of ten visitors to Tibet is from a foreign country after the region reopened to foreign tourists or tourists from China's Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan in ear ...

HONG KONG, April 15 (Xinhua) -- The Immigration Department of Hong Kong announced new measures here Wednesday to provide easier access to the city for Taiwan residents beginning April 27.

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 BEIJING, April 14 -- Chengdu City, the capital of Sichuan Province, has launched discount tourist cards.

    The cards are intended to help boost the recovery of t ...

 XI'AN, April 13 (Xinhua) -- Xi'an is to build an underground station in 2013 to cater for visitors to its most famous attraction -- the world-famous terracotta warriors and horses, an officia ...

BEIJING, April 10 -- A combination of factors, apart from the financial crisis, have resulted in less overseas tourists visiting Beijing.

    The number of holidaymakers ...

 LHASA, April 5 (Xinhua) -- Foreign tourists have begun entering Tibet as the region lifted a month-long suspension.

China further relaxed rules on individual travel to Hong Kong Wednesday, allowing residents of Shenzhen City, southern Guangdong Province easier entry to the neighboring special administrative regi ...

BEIJING, April 1 -- "In heaven, there is paradise; on earth, it's Suzhou and Hangzhou". This popular saying captures very well the charm of Hangzhou.

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LHASA, March 29 (Xinhua) -- Foreign tourists will be allowed to get into Tibet as of April 5, a tourism official said here Sunday.

    "Tibet will resume receiving fore ...

 TOKYO, March 26 (Xinhua) -- The Japanese government will start granting individual Chinese citizens tourist visas as of July this year to attract more Chinese sightseers to Japan, local media ...

BEIJING, March 24 -- With the emergence of new buildings like the CCTV Tower, Bird's Nest and T3, Beijing is metamorphosing into a modern city at an unprecedented speed. At the same time, howe ...

HANGZHOU, March 18 (Xinhua) -- Six captive pandas in quake-hit Sichuan Province could get new homes in a tourist resort in east China's Zhejiang Province in October, the local government said Wedne ...

BEIJING, March 19 -- Eight Chinese cities noted for their ancient civilizations have teamed up to promote tourism. They include Beijing, Zhengzhou, Kaifeng, Luoyang, Anyang, Xi'an and Hangzhou.

Collectors spent a total of 47.8 million yuan ($7 million) yesterday to get their hands on the last 410 drums and 978 bamboo scrolls that featured in the amazin ...

An overwhelming majority of French people feel that two Chinese bronze sculptures that were auctioned last week should be given to

The 2009 World Stamp Exhibition and the 27th Peony Exhibition will kick off in Luoyang, central