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Japan considering relaxing visa rules for Chinese tourists

Chinese Tourism To Japan

Japan considering relaxing visa rules for Chinese tourists

NAGOYA - The Japanese tourism minister said Sunday the government will consider granting tourist visas to more individual travellers from China by easing current requirements that have been viewed ...

National Day break will bring more Chinese tourists to Taiwan

More Chinese To Visit Taiwan During Holiday

National Day break will bring more Chinese tourists to Taiwan

Taipei - The number of Chinese tourists to Taiwan will increase substantially during their Oct.1 National Day holiday, an Tourism Bureau official said Sunday.

Tourists with new faces face problems upon return

Cosmetic Surgery And International Travel

Tourists with new faces face problems upon return

A group of Chinese women who travelled to South Korea for cosmetic surgery baffled immigration officers on their return home when their new looks did not match their passport photos.

Malaysian tourism: No news is good news

Malaysia

Malaysian tourism: No news is good news

The A (H1N1) flu is making it difficult for Malaysian tourism authorities to meet the targeted one million Chinese visitors this year.

The worst tourists are French? Not in Taiwan.

Taiwan

The worst tourists are French? Not in Taiwan.

TAIPEI, Taiwan — They deface Taiwan's scenic rock formations. They spit in public, cut in line and talk too loud.

China issues warning for Chinese tourists in Munich

Chinese Tourists Warned

China issues warning for Chinese tourists in Munich

BEIJING - China's National Tourism Administration Saturday urged Chinese tourists to exercise caution when visiting Munich.

Japan welcomes first individual Chinese tourists

Japan

Japan welcomes first individual Chinese tourists

NARITA, Japan (AFP) — Japan on Wednesday welcomed the first Chinese tourists travelling individually rather than on tours, under visa changes that aim to lure more wealthy foreigners amid the ...

88% surge in Chinese tourists to Bali

Bali

88% surge in Chinese tourists to Bali

China is set to become one of Bali's biggest contributors to the tourism industry following a significant surge in the number of Chinese tourists who visited the resort island over the last couple ...

Chinese tourists avoiding France because of Sarkozy: official

No Tourists For Sarkozy

Chinese tourists avoiding France because of Sarkozy: official

FLORIANOPOLIS, Brazil - Chinese tourists are avoiding France because of President Nicolas Sarkozy and his country's attitude toward Tibet, a senior Chinese tourism official told AFP on the ...

Taiwan National Palace Museum limits groups amid onslaught of China tourists

Taiwan

Taiwan National Palace Museum limits groups amid onslaught of China tourists

By etaiwannews.com

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – From June1, groups visiting the National Palace Museum in Taipei will be subject to a new set of restrictions amid complaints about too many tourists from China, the ...

Taiwan more than doubles daily quota for Chinese tourists

Taiwan

Taiwan more than doubles daily quota for Chinese tourists

By monstersandcritics.com

Taipei - Taiwan has more than doubled its quota for Chinese tourists and plans to further raise the limit to cope with the increased number of Chinese tour groups, a newspaper reported Monday. ...

Yen Yen: New package to lure Chinese tourists

Malaysia

Yen Yen: New package to lure Chinese tourists

By mysinchew.com

KUALA LUMPUR - After taking over as the new tourism minister, Datuk Seri Ng Yen Yen has pledged to create a new travel package aimed at luring more Chinese tourists to Malaysia.

Chinese tourist arrivals break 3,000 daily ceiling

Taiwan

Chinese tourist arrivals break 3,000 daily ceiling

By etaiwannews.com

Taipei - The number of arriving Chinese visitors broke the 3,000 mark for the first time Wednesday to reach 3,043, according to statistics released that day by the Tourism Bureau.

Chinese tourists are the export that California is chasing

California

Chinese tourists are the export that California is chasing

By latimes.com

Five years after closing its overseas trade bureau here, California launched a new office Wednesday aimed at getting a bigger share of one of China's biggest exports: tourists.

China tourists deluge, daunt rival Taiwan's museum

Taiwan

China tourists deluge, daunt rival Taiwan's museum

By reuters.com

TAIPEI - Chinese tourists eager to see art treasures heisted from China decades ago have swamped a famed Taiwan museum, forcing it to deploy crowd-control measures and fuelling a huge ...

Chinese tourists take first direct boat to Taiwan

Taiwan

Chinese tourists take first direct boat to Taiwan

By AP

Taipei, Taiwan - Hundreds of Chinese tourists arrived in Taiwan on Monday on the first luxury cruise ship to sail directly to the island from China, boosting prospects for expanded economic and ...

Police: 2 Chinese tourists drown in Cebu

Philippines

Police: 2 Chinese tourists drown in Cebu

By gmanews.tv

MANILA, Philippines - Two Chinese divers were believed to have drowned Sunday while they were scuba diving in Central Philippines, reports reaching Camp Crame in Quezon City said.

Japan plans to allow Chinese tourists to visit individually: report

Japan

Japan plans to allow Chinese tourists to visit individually: report

By xinhuanet.com

TOKYO - The government plans to allow Chinese tourists to visit Japan individually if they meet certain standards of affluence, Kyodo News reported Tuesday.

Chinese tourists in another US bus crash

Philadelphia

Chinese tourists in another US bus crash

By xinhuanet.com

Another tourist group from Shanghai has been involved in a bus accident in the United States, just days after six Chinese tourists were killed in a bus crash in Arizona.

Mainland tourists spend $25 mln in Taiwan during Chinese New Year holiday

Taiwan

Mainland tourists spend $25 mln in Taiwan during Chinese New Year holiday

By xinhuanet.com

TAIPEI - About 13,400 Chinese mainland tourists flocked to Taiwan last week, spending 850 million New Taiwan dollars (25.5 million U.S. dollars) in their first Spring Festival holiday on the ...

7 Chinese tourists confirmed dead in bus crash near Las Vegas

US

7 Chinese tourists confirmed dead in bus crash near Las Vegas

By xinhuanet.com

LOS ANGELES - Seven Chinese tourists have been killed in a tour bus accident near the Hoover Dam in Arizona, with at least seven others seriously injured, a spokesman of the Chinese Consulate here ...

Taiwan

Chinese tourists’arrivals won’t cause hepatitis A epidemic: CDC

By etaiwannews.com

Taipei - The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said Wednesday that hepatitis A is unlikely to break out in Taiwan as public health conditions here are good, rebutting a local newspaper’ s ...

Hong Kong leader appeals to Beijing for more Chinese tourists

Hong Kong

Hong Kong leader appeals to Beijing for more Chinese tourists

By monstersandcritics.com

Hong Kong - Hong Kong chief executive Donald Tsang Thursday appealed to Beijing to allow more tourists from mainland China into the former British colony to help revive its flagging economy.

Chinese tourists may skip India during their New Year in January

Chinese Tourists May Skip India

Chinese tourists may skip India during their New Year in January

By timesofindia.indiatimes.com

BEIJING - Chinese travellers who flock tourist destinations across the world during the Chinese New Year in January are expected to skip India owing

CNMI governor slams tourist drug search

DEA Action Condemned

CNMI governor slams tourist drug search

By radioaustralia.net.au

The Northern Marianas governor has slammed the treatment of 147 Chinese tourists, who were made to go through a drug search on arriving at Saipan International Airport last week.

147 Chinese tourists looking to sue after body search at Saipan airport

DEA Strikes Again: No Drugs Were Found...

147 Chinese tourists looking to sue after body search at Saipan airport

By pacificnewscenter.com

Guam - A host of Chinese tourists are weighing the prospect of filing a lawsuit over an incident in Saipan, alleging racial discrimination, where drug enforcement agents and customs officers ...

Taiwan set to provide landing visas to Chinese tourists

Taiwan

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.

China tourists drop $1.3 mln in Taiwan

Chinese tourists in taiwan

China tourists drop $1.3 mln in Taiwan

TAIPEI - Chinese tourists who just finished a historic trip to Taiwan, which normally bans them for security reasons, spent about T$40 million ($1.3 million), a perk for the island's sagging ...

Three female Chinese tourists reported missing in Taiwan

Taiwan

Three female Chinese tourists reported missing in Taiwan

Taipei - Three female Chinese tourists, who came to Taiwan via Thailand as part of a tour group, went missing in northern Taiwan Tuesday, according to a news release issued by the National ...

China reassures Taiwan its tourists will behave

China: tourists will "behave"

China reassures Taiwan its tourists will behave

BEIJING - China sought to reassure Taiwan on Monday that its first tour groups to the island will behave well, and told tourists to be good ambassadors following a warming of ties between the two ...

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