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Record number of tourists, retail sales during Golden Week BEIJING, Oct 6 (Xinhua) — Retails sales and the number of tourists throughout the Golden Week holiday broke records in China’s tourism industry. This year’s National Day holiday, which marks the 1949 founding of the People’s Republic of China, ran from Sept.

TOURISM TAT shifts market focus CHATRUDEE THEPARAT The Tourism Authority of Thailand will hold a meeting with private tourism organisations today to find ways to stimulate tourism from countries unlikely to be affected by the US financial crisis.

Filed under: North Korea Ox-drawn carts squeak by towering marble monuments - with slogans like "Live forever our father" [Kim Il Sung]. Remnants of four-lane highways snake parallel to a single train track that handles all traffic through the northwestern corridor.

Thailand organising roadshows to restore foreigners tourism confidence BANGKOK, Sept 18 (TNA) – Thailand’s Ministry of Tourism and Sports has dispatched a team of officials for a ‘roadshow mission’ in China to clarify the real political situation in the kingdom after the government lifted the State

Podcamp and WordCamp Hawaii is taking on social media and tourism from China on Oct 24, 2008. Christine Lu of The China Business Network will be presenting a program on “Using New Media To Capture The Outbound Chinese Tourism Opportunity” which is big business in Hawaii as well as much of the United States.

Foreign arrivals drop sharply due to political turmoil Current political turmoil has already affected tourism both in the short- and medium-term, with the number of international arrivals having fallen by 70 per cent, according to the Thai Tourism Services Association.

300 Chinese tourists stranded in Phuket BEIJING, Sept 1 — More than 300 Chinese tourists have been stranded in Phuket since Friday because anti-government protesters have forced the suspension of services at the Thai island’s airport. Demonstrators demanding the ouster of the Samak Sundaravej government have disrupted services at other Thai airports, too.

Taiwan set to provide landing visas to Chinese tourists TAIPEI — Taiwan said Tuesday it plans to offer landing visas to Chinese tourists travelling to two Taiwanese-controlled islands off the mainland, in another goodwill gesture to Beijing.

Thai image needs boost in China Nouveaux riches opt for other markets CHADAMAS CHINMANEEVONG Thailand should recreate its image among Chinese tourists in order to secure this market in the long run, say experts in the Chinese tour market. Today, the country’s image among Chinese travellers is quite poor.

A helping hand for Olympic tourists, a wary eye on political dissentBy yomiuri.co.jp BEIJING--The Beijing Olympic Games have created a wave of volunteerism involving more than 1 million people, including those not registered as official volunteers.