SUVA, March 27 (Xinhua) — An estimated 18,000 Chinese nationals visited Fiji in 2010, according to the Tourism Fiji here Sunday.
This is an increase of more than 32 percent over the 2009 figure, Tourism Fiji Chief Executive Officer Josefa Tuamoto told state owned radio station Fiji Broadcasting Commission.
Tuamoto said that China is an emerging market and his agency looks to get even more visitors from China this year as they lobby Fiji as the best holiday destination in the world.
Tourism Fiji recently organized a workshop in Shenzhen, China for Chinese …

Prices may be up around the region but China’s growing band of happy holidaymakers have proven unperturbed over the Spring Festival period, heading overseas in record numbers.
And it’s a trend that is set to continue, according to the country’s official tourism bodies, as Chinese travelers become more adventurous on their breaks and, of course, have more money to spend.
China’s National Holiday Tourism Office this week claimed there had been a rise of 60 percent in outbound tourists from Beijing alone, even though travel agents had upped prices to such popular …

China has been identified as a crucial tourism market, with Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk saying several initiatives are under way.
Julius Baumann 2010/11/02
These include securing an agreement to lift travel restrictions on Chinese tourists to SA, as well as pursuing direct air access between the two countries.CHINA has been identified as a crucial tourism market, with Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk saying several initiatives are under way to unlock its potential as a key market.
Mr van Schalkwyk said that, after two high-level visits to China this year, including a state visit by …

The Managing Director of Namibia Wildlife Resorts (NWR) Tobie Aupindi has told said that Namibian tourism sector has focused on China as a tourism emerging market, aiming to attract more Chinese  tourists to Namibia.
Aupindi said in a recent interview with Xinhua that foreign tourists to Namibia came from Germany and other European countries which had kindred relations with Namibia. Because of the global financial crisis, the country’s tourism industry has suffered a decline with dissatisfactory performance in recent years.
With China’s economic development and significantly increase in people’s well-beings, since 2007, …

China is leading the global tourism industry, having done what few other countries -including developed Western nations – have not:  acknowledge the effects that the travel and tourism industry have on the economy.
China has declared tourism to be “a strategic pillar of its economic reform,” said Jean-Claude Baumgarten, president of London-based World Travel and Tourism Council, at the WTTC’s 10th annual summit Wednesday in Beijing.
Last November, the State Council approved policies that will promote the industry under the “Guidelines to Accelerate the Development of the Tourism Industry.”
The world’s leaders in …

In the past decade China has become the workshop for the world, its low-cost labour force toiling in factories to churn out cheap goods destined for western consumers. Many of the raw materials needed to feed this industrial juggernaut have to be imported from other countries and today China is the biggest driver of markets in commodities such as copper, oil and iron ore.
But as well as a multitude of low-paid factory workers, the country’s manufacturing boom has also created a large and growing number of baofahu – literally, the “suddenly …

One of my foreign friends want to improve his Chinese. actually, he can speak smooth and frequent PuTongHua now. but his reading and writing skills are not that good. I think most of Chinese can recognize he is not a native Chinese speaker from his writing materials. and he cant understand exactly what the Chinese’ real meaning is sometimes. So he let me be his Chinese teacher. Then I became his teacher, this happened 2 years ago. It is different now, I believe his spoken Chinese will impressed every Chinese. …