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Opinion | China’s visa-free initiative shows it is choosing openness over isolation

China’s visa-free policy for visitors, introduced last year, is quickly becoming its largest visa liberalisation since the founding of the…

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Shanghai banks on top international artists to draw tourism spending

Shanghai has rolled out the red carpet for world-class symphonies, singers, dancers and actors in the belief that highbrow performances…

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Shanghai woos foreign tourists with concerts, operas, symphonies featuring global artists

Shanghai has set a target of attracting an additional 20,000 foreign tourists in one month by hosting highbrow arts and…

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Hilton to maintain breakneck China expansion pace, targets 100 new hotels per year

Global hotel chain operator Hilton is bullish over the growth potential of mainland China’s leisure travel market and plans to…

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Club Med owner bets on winter sports in China as skiing craze creates ‘severe shortage’

Fosun Tourism Group, the Chinese owner of the Club Med resort chain, is betting on winter sports facilities to tap…

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China’s consumption drive falls on deaf ears as consumers remain cautious, ask for more

China has also allocated around 300 billion yuan (US$42 billion) worth of ultra-long-term special government bonds to support industrial-equipment upgrades…

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China looks for new ways to boost spending on services, from senior care to tourism

The country posted a 5 per cent increase in gross domestic product in the first half of the year from…

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Opinion | China’s tourism policy must now go beyond visa-free travel

The statistics speak for themselves. In the first half of this year, 14.64 million foreigners visited China, up by 152.7…

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Exclusive | Live-streaming here to stay as Chinese travel business almost ‘fully recovers’ from Covid-19, Trip.com co-founder says

When China’s coronavirus cases stabilised in March and domestic tourism began to resume, Trip.com Group’s co-founder and executive chairman James…

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Abandoned Japanese temples are a great new tourism investment, start-up PlanetDao says

Nishimura believes that along with an estimated 8 million old and abandoned homes in Japan, temples and onsens that no…

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