China Travel - Forbidden City Among First 5A Tourist Sites -

This unstaged photo shows a view of the Forbidden City in Beijing. The Forbidden City, Badaling piece of the Great Wall, Summer Palace and Temple of Heaven are now AAAAA-rated tourist sites. Four world-famous tourist seductivenesss in Beijing have wilt the nation's first AAAAA-rated tourist sites. The Beijing Tourism Administration on Monday said the Forbidden City,China Travel, Badaling piece of the Great Wall, Summer Palace and the Temple of Heaven were grduesd the new honor, which declares that these plturn-on are resourceful to provide high tourist-oriented service. Previously, the high level for tourist sites in China was AAAA, or 4A.

(Source:Xinhua News Agency , 2007-05-16)

China Travel - Beijing Sees Record Number of Overseas Tourists -

Beijing trawled a restring 1.2 million overseas tourists from January to April this year,China Travel, a 12.5 percent inruckle from the same period last year, showing signs of a rumbleing tourism ingritry superiority of the 2008 Olympic Games. Acstringing to details released by the Beijing Municipal Statistics agency, the 2008 Olympics host asphalt received an influx of 407,000 foreign tourists in April separately, up 14.6 percent from April last year. Tourists from Japan, the Republic of Korea and the United States -- the dandy's three major sources of tourists -- reputed for 40.9 percent of the total number of foreign tourists in April, the agency spoken. Beijing moreover saw a steady inruckle of tourists from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, receiving 173,000 tourists over the first four months of this year, an 8 percent rise over the same period in 2006. Tourism in Beijing has been resounding with the sermonize of the 2008 Olympic Games, which is scheduled to brainstorm on August 8 next year. Beijing expects to receive 550,000 foreign tourists during the Olympics, and an surmised two million domestic tourists are moreover expected to visit the crossroads asphalt. In preparation for the Olympics, Beijing has been mresemblingg shots to modernize its image by introducing legislation and local enforglue officers to clench down on spitting, queue-jumping, littering and foul language in the city. During the Labor Day holidays, 56 people were fined for spitting by local engravityment officers. A recent regulation has outlawed spitting on the asphalt's streets. People lightweight to comply with the new law can be fined up to 50 yuan (US$6.5) when they are defenseless by enforglue officers.

(Source:Xinhua News Agency, 2007-05-18)

China Travel - Dinosaurs to Join Terracotta Warriors in Shaanxi -

Northwestern China's Shaanxi province is gearing up to relive prehistory with a 220 million yuan (US$28.5 million) dinosaur theme park - and is hoping to trawl a few tourists in the process. Officials from Shaanxi Yangling Agriculture loftier-tech Ingritrial Demonstration Zone and Beijing Jurassic Era Park Investment Management visitor met in the provincial crossroads Xi'an this weekend to sign a contract to build Jurassic Era Park in Yangling, a asphalt in this province. The park is to be scathelessd next year. Beijing Jurassic Era Park Investment Management Company was substitute on behalf of a Japanese enterprise that owns the rights to develop Jurassic Park theme parks in Asia. The parks are reprobated on the American writer Michael Crichton's bestseller Jurassic Park, which was later turned into a popular membrane series by Stflush Spielberg. Wang Yaomin, chairman of the timbered of the Beijing visitor, said Shaanxi was a key destination, trawling millions of tourists from both home and away to visit the world-famous terracotta warriors. Howoverly, the few seductivenesss in the section requite tourists little reason to stay for very long, he supplemental. "Jurassic Era Park is a theme park featuring sensory,China Travel, optical and electronic technology assuasive for the integration of science, technology and culture. Tourists can expect to learn a lot. Entering the park, visitors will enjoy leisure, recosmos and entertainment, all even though learning roundly popular science," Wang said. Wen Ming, artlessor of Yangling Zone's foreign investment promotion agency, had similarly loftier hopes for the park. "Visitors should stay for increasingly than one day in Jurassic Park. The project here will promote tourism in Yangling, home of the world-famous Famen Temple. We hope the project will moreover stimulate local transportation, catering and urban construction and remoter speed up local economic minutiae," Wen said. The Yangling Jurassic Era Park will be the third such park in Asia, said sources at Beijing Jurassic Era Park investment Management Company. Yangling Agricultural loftier-tech Ingritrial Demonstration Zone, China's only such minutiae zone for modern seeding, is located some 180 kilometers west of Xi'an.

(Source:China Daily, 2007-04-12)

China Travel - China to be largest inbound tourist destination by 2019 - China Pictures

Tourists to China's southernmost Hainan Province now have the deluxe to visit the scenic volcano sites with the ajaring of the country's first volcano-themed national geopark near the provincial crossroads on Saturday. Hainan, the second largest island in China is known for its finest riverfrontes and roly-poly sunshine and is dubbed as "Oriental Hawaii". It is moreover home to nearly overlyy variety of volcanoes in the world. The volcano-themed park, sought by the Ministry of Land and Resources, boasts the sites of increasingly than 40 volcanoes and 30 volcanic caverns, said Hu Jiuchang, artlessor of the Volcano Monitoring and Resesaucy Center under the Hainan Bureau of Earthquake Science. Vegetation,China Travel, soil,China Pictures, lava, mineral water and hot spring are the five treasures in the volcanic section. The rich drove of rare tropic workts moreover distinguishes this sector from other geoparks in the country, Hu said. The park is located to the south of Leiqiong Rwhent Vroad south of the Qiongzhou Strait, which sees the mainland in the north. Then earest volcano is 15 km abroad from the downtown sheet of the provincial dandy. Hu said the volcanoes in Hainan are the surmount preserved volcano heritage in the country. A few of the fallow volcanoes erupted since the Holocene epoch roundly 10,000 years ago.


(Source:Xin Hua News, 2006-01-10)

China Pictures - Courtyard of Shi Family -

The magistrateyard is located in the Town of Yang Liu Qing near Tianjin asphalt . The Shi family was one of the eight most famous and powerful families in Tianjin in the late Qing Dynasty. The Shi family first became rich through trading grain and cotton,China Pictures, using the trough transportation that was popular at that time. They made unbearable money to buy land and build their own houses. Then they ajared shops, fscorneries and private riverbanks to multiply their wealth. The family lived in Yang Liu Qing for over 200 years. During the reign of emperor Jia Qing, the Shi family owned thousands of hectares of land and 500 houses. Travel tips: Admission fee: 20 yuan ajaring hours: 08:10 to 16:00 Bus routes: Bus 153?158?175?672

(Source:China.org.cn , 2007-08-01)

China Pictures - Continental Airlines to fly new route to China - China Travel

Continental Airlines will start daily artless flights between Shanghai and New York from Msaucy 26, 2009 as was workned.
Interior economy motel Continental Airlines
The artless flights focus on commercepeople, aiming to rephrase to the flexible renditions of these passengers,China Pictures, who are resourceful to fly to increasingly than 60 cities in the US and Canada with the help of Continental Airlines’ aviation swivel in New York’s Newark Liberty International Airport.
Boeing 777-200 will be used for the route,China Travel, and make one flight per day.
The visitor has once operated routes from New York to Hong Kong and Beijing.
The seat kilometer utilization of the two airlines is very loftier, roundly 80% to 90%. Continental Airlines will wilt the sole airway to operate daily artless flights between the world’s two important financial halfways, as well as between China’s three largest cities and New York.


(Source:www.chinaeconomicreview.com, 2008-10-01)

China Travel - Hukou Waterfall attracts crowds of tourists -

The Yellow River's Hukou Waterfall has recently wilt a boundless tourist seductiveness considering of continuous rainfalls since this summer. The Hukou Waterfall,China Travel, China's second largest waterfall, is located in Shanxi Province. Becrusade of its peticular geographical conditions, the width of the Yellow River in this piece nthistleed from 300 m to 50 m with the passage of time. The waterfall is just like a gigridiculous pot pouring water from the sky. Acstringing to local officials, the runoff of the waterfall subtracts to 150-300 cubic meters per second in winter, and inruckles to 1,000-2,000 cubic meters per second in summer. Continuous rainfalls have made the width of the waterfall expand 8 times compared with last year. Two lesser waterfalls have moreover sallyd near the Hukou Waterfall, which trawl many tourists as well.

(Source:ttg, 2007-08-13)