If you have any plans to travel to China, you should get a move on, because it’s getting more expensive every day to be a tourist in the Middle Kingdom. Chinese media last week reported that some of the country’s most famous tourist sites are prepping major ticket-price hikes as part of a three-year government-led price review. Tickets for Taierzhuang, the site of a 1938 military victory over Japan, are set to jump by 60% to $25. As recently as 2008, admission to …

May 11, 2012
Chinese mainland travel agencies have stopped sending tour groups to the Philippines due to concerns for tourists’ safety.
Some Web users called on tourists to boycott the island country, which has famous island destinations such as Boracay and Cebu.
China CYTS Tours Holding Co, a major travel service provider on the mainland, said that chartered direct flights between Beijing and Boracay Island every five days will be suspended starting on Sunday.
On Thursday, a Philippine Airlines flight scheduled to leave Beijing at 1:50 am for Manila was canceled, according to a …

Understanding the potential of China’s outbound tourism is now made easy by authoritative new publication which is also available as a free e-book download
BEIJING,  May 8, 2012 – A new travel industry book will make it easier for businesses to understand China’s consumers, particularly their travel preferences and the latest social, economic and digital trends in a highly complex, fast-moving market.
The “Essential China Travel Trends Guide – 2012 Year of the Dragon Edition,” includes articles on Outbound Tourism, Luxury Travel, Tour Operation, Chinese Consumers, Customer Satisfaction, Internet and Social Media, Mobile …

DUBAI – Dubai registered in 2012 a 27- percent increase in the number of hotel guests from China, the sheikhdom’s promotional arm Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) revealed Sunday.
Speaking at a media briefing on the occasion of the largest Middle Eastern tourism fair Arabian Travel Market (ATM), Saleh Al Geziry, director of DTCM’s overseas promotion and inward missions, told Xinhua that “Dubai hotels registered in 2012 a total of 193, 000 stays of Chinese nationals, representing a 27-percent increase compared to the …

China’s high-end travel market might enter an industrialized and standardized era after two influential companies in the fields established a partnership on Saturday.
Ctrip.com, China’s largest online travel service provider which has 41.6 percent of market share in terms of sales revenue in 2011, is stretching its arms to high-end travel market by cooperating with Life TM Group, one of China’s top luxury service providers.
As part of the deal, Ctrip will invest into the travel sector of TM Group to form a new company, hhtravel.com, with a focus on high-end travel package.
“The …