Employees should be given more flexibility in summer to take half-day off on Fridays and extra time for weekend travel to boost the tourism- State Council.
Although outbound tourism will be adversely affected by the RMB’s exchange rate if it continues to fall, immediate effects are expected to be limited.
Shanghai Disney Resort’s current annual consumer expenditure reaches RMB50 billion and it is estimated to receive 12 million visitors when it opens in May 2016.
New Zealand received 313,000 Chinese visitors in the first six months of the year and it expects up to 350,000 arrivals by year end.
The London Group Plc and SinoFortone Group,signed a MoU for more than £250 million invested in the tourism infrastructure of the United Kingdom.
Chinese media group Huayi Brothers, OTA Utour, and the Italian National Tourist Board, announced the launch of a Only You Tour Package film theme trip in Italy.
4 million Chinese are expected to head to Japan this year, a 2/3 increase from last year. More than 40 percent were from the greater Shanghai area in 2014.
Japan received over 10 million foreign visitors in the first seven months this year, with the number of Chinese visitors nearly doubling to 2.17 million.