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Chinas visa restriction policy

I know I have not written for a long time. But due to my private life I was not able to constantly write in this blog. I will try to post every now and than an hopfully intersting post.

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Beijing 2008 Olympics – some thoughts

There have been various discussions about the success of the Olympics in Beijing, before, meanwhile and after the event. I had no chance to travel to the Olympics but this way I could see the various documentations from different points of view.

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Chinese Outbound Tourism Spendings

Today a short news I have read on china view about the spendings of Chinese outbound Tourists. Besides the regional differences due to Nielson, I think it is not surprising, that the Chinese Tourist spends 2,597 to 3,506 U.S. dollars. I am asking myself if this amount has really increased?

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China Tourism facts 2007 with a new records

The CNTA has published the new tourism facts of 2007. Compared to 2006 their have been only new records: Read the rest of this entry »

CAAC accepts foreign flight applications for the Olypics

The CAAC has officialy begun to accept flight applications from foreign airlines for flights during the Olympics and Paralympics 2008 in Beijing. This includes special flights like VIP flights as well as charter or business flights related with one of the olypic related cities.

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CNTA announced first tour group to USA in June 2008

After the new ADS (Approved Destination Status) agreement between China and the United States of America finally follows the first group of tourists.

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Mainland Chinese Outbound Tourists to Japan on third place

The Japanese government plans to achieve 10 million tourist in 2010 and strengthen their tourism industry as a strategic industry. Focusing on this goal with the main target market in Asia, their have been cooperation’s with China, like the development of the air transport.

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34 million Chinese outbound tourists in 2006

In the year 2006, according to official statistics, approximately 34 million Chinese tourists went abroad. This made China the largest outbound travel market in whole Asia. This year’s tourists are still increasing. In the first half of 2007 the outbound travel market has increased by 14.04%.

Six more Countries gain ADS

The China National Tourism Administration (CNTA) approved six more countries as destinations for Chinese tourists from October 15th 2007.

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The ‘Golden Week Concept’ in question

The three ‘golden week’ holidays were originally introduced to increase tourism and free time. Starting in October 1999 it had a tremendous influence on the tourism industry. But holidays for a whole country on the same time brings big problems.

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