http://www.chinatravel.com/rssRSS-BoardTue 30 Jan 2012 20:19:00 GMTwendysonghttp://www.chinatravel.com/china-travel-news/news756.htm On January 30, freezing cold air and icy fog air swept several cities of Inner Mongolia. The temperature is down to -40℃, leading to the rare icy fog phenomena occured in Hailaer, Chenba Erhu areas. The urban area of Yakeshi City met its lowest temperature at -45℃, causing great troubles to citizens daily life. People have to go out in the icy fog weather with frost on their hats and eyelashes. From January 19 to 30, the temperature in Hulunbuir is keeping under -35℃. Both forest region ...]]>Wed 17 Jan 2012 1:14:00 GMTjoycehttp://www.chinatravel.com/china-travel-news/news755.htm Dear members of chinatravel.com, As Chinese New Year 2012 is coming soon, we will have a seven-day holiday from January 22nd to 28th, 2012, when prompt reply from our website is not available. However, your booking service including tours, flights and hotels is still available during the holiday, which will be handled by our tour service provider. During Chinese New Year holiday, there will be a large number of Chinese people traveling home, causing great spring travel rush. Given tha...]]>Thu 4 Jan 2012 21:38:00 GMTjoycehttp://www.chinatravel.com/china-travel-news/news754.htm According to Spring Airlines, from January 21, 2012, new flights between Shenyang, Shijiazhuang and Sanya are to operate during this peak travel period in China, which will operate each day. The operation of the flights will bring much convenience for tourists traveling to Sanya. The flights depart from Shenyang at 7:00, arriving in Shijiazhuang at 8:25; and then the flights departs from Shijiazhuang at 9:10, and arrive in Sanya at 13:05, with the flight number of 9C8945/6. Then, the flig...]]>Wed 3 Jan 2012 21:37:00 GMTjoycehttp://www.chinatravel.com/china-travel-news/news753.htm The 15th Shenyang International Ice and Snow Festival is to kick off in Shenyang City of China on January 7th, 2012, and it will last for 2 months until March. The festival is hosted by Shenyang Municipal Government and Tourist Administration of Liaoning Province. The main venue is Shenyang Qipanshan Ice and Snow World, and the branch venues are Dongbeiya Ski Resort, Baiqingzhai Ski Resort and Guaipo Ski Resort. During the festival, there are a variety of themed events, such as alpine ski...]]>Sun 31 Dec 2011 3:09:00 GMTlotusbluehttp://www.chinatravel.com/china-travel-news/news752.htm Tomorrow is January 1, the first day of the New Year, 2012. From January 1 to January 3 is Chinese holiday for celebrating the New Year. Everywhere is in jubilation atmosphere. People across the country hold various celebration activities. They gather in squares, hotels, mall for countdown to midnight tonight. Families and friends go out together for enjoying the fireworks display. Businesspersons participate in a variety of New Year parties, children take part in lots of performances. In C...]]>Sat 30 Dec 2011 3:21:00 GMTjoycehttp://www.chinatravel.com/china-travel-news/news751.htm On December 27th, 2011, the 17th Jilin International Rime Ice and Snow Festival kicked off in Jilin City which is known as ice-snow Shangri-La, which will last for 91 days. The festival is mainly based on rime, ice and snow, aiming to create an ice- snow carnival and show the relationship between ice-snow and the culture of Chinese New Year. Rime is a kind of natural landscape appearing on branches of trees by the Songhua River during chilly winter, attracting numerous visitors to apprec...]]>Sat 30 Dec 2011 2:50:00 GMTjoycehttp://www.chinatravel.com/china-travel-news/news750.htm On December 28th, 2011, the first Altay International Ice and Snow Festival kicked off in Jiangjunshan ski resort in Altay City of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China, which will last 100 days. During the ice-snow festival, there are various ice-snow activities and events, such as the experience of folk culture and winter catching festival by Ulungur Lake. ...]]>Fri 22 Dec 2011 21:38:00 GMTsamshenhttp://www.chinatravel.com/china-travel-news/news749.htm Earlier this month, the States Council of PR. China has officially announced the detailed schedules for the 2012 China public holidays. Chinese people usually enjoys seven public holidays in a year, including the International New Years Day, Chinese New Year, Qingming Festival, International Labor Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-autumn Festival and the National Day of China. But in 2012, there will be only six public holidays, because the mid-autumn festival holiday will be combined with t...]]>Mon 18 Dec 2011 21:55:00 GMTfadrihttp://www.chinatravel.com/china-travel-news/news748.htmFrom December 15th, 2011, direct flights from Beijing to Lhasa operated, with the flight number of CA4125/6, which are the first direct scheduled flights between Beijing and Lhasa. The flights operate every day, taking about 4 hours for a single trip. The flight departs at 8:05 from Beijing Capital International Airport, and arrives in Lhasa Gonggar Airport at about 12:25. Then the flight operates back from Lhasa at 13:15, and arrives in Beijing at 17:05. During peak tourist season, the aircr...]]>Wed 6 Dec 2011 21:44:00 GMTdavidhttp://www.chinatravel.com/china-travel-news/news747.htmOn Dec. 5, heavy fog and smog weather shrouded Beijing and the visibility is lower than 200 meters. Due to the foggy weather, many flights are canceled and delayed. Experts said that air pollution is the core reason. The PM2.5 level of Beijing reached to 522 (Dec.5 17:00) while the max level of PM2.5 is 500. Now the foggy weather has expanded to Tianjin, Hebei Province even south to Zhejiang and Fujian provinces. For travellers to China, we suggest you avoid Beijing during the foggy weather. W...]]>Sat 25 Nov 2011 0:57:00 GMTwy123456789http://www.chinatravel.com/china-travel-news/news746.htmTue 21 Nov 2011 18:58:00 GMTwendysonghttp://www.chinatravel.com/china-travel-news/news745.htmOn November 20, 2011, the forum on work in inbound tourism market was held by China National Tourism Administration in Lijang Waterfall Hotel. The director of China National Tourism Administration, representatives from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Tourism Office, Guilin Tourism Bureau, China Highlights andChinatravel.com andother major travel agents, hotels, attractions,airlines etc. attended the forum. The forum focused on current problems and development of inbound tourism market. In rece...]]>Tue 21 Nov 2011 8:53:00 GMTgo2chttp://www.chinatravel.com/china-travel-news/news744.htmTue 21 Nov 2011 0:32:00 GMTshintasantosohttp://www.chinatravel.com/china-travel-news/news743.htmWed 15 Nov 2011 3:48:00 GMTsamshenhttp://www.chinatravel.com/china-travel-news/news742.htmMon 13 Nov 2011 21:32:00 GMTfadrihttp://www.chinatravel.com/china-travel-news/news741.htmFrom November 14th, influenced by a stream of cold air, most areas of North China suffer drastically fall in temperature, mainly including central and East Heilongjiang Province, Jilin Province, Northwest Liaoning Province and Inner Mongolia. The temperature falls by 4℃to 12℃ in most areas of Inner Mongolia, and even drops to -30℃ in North Heilongjiang Province. Due to the rapid fall of temperature and the subsequent snowfall as well as strong wind, it brings inconvenience for traveling outside...]]>Mon 6 Nov 2011 3:28:00 GMTihgedasilahttp://www.chinatravel.com/china-travel-news/news740.htmFri 3 Nov 2011 3:02:00 GMTjoycehttp://www.chinatravel.com/china-travel-news/news739.htm On October 30th, Lonely Planet, one of the global leading independent travel guide publisher, managed by BBC, selected Hong Kong of China as one of the worlds top 10 cities worthwhile to visit in 2012 after globe-trotting research and fierce debate. Among those top 10 cities including London, Muscat, Bengaluru, Cdiz, Stockholm, Guimares, Santiago, Hong Kong, Orlando and Darwin, Hong Kong is the only city selected in China. In the article, Lonely Planet described Hong Kong as The mood in C...]]>Tue 31 Oct 2011 15:08:00 GMTwendysonghttp://www.chinatravel.com/china-travel-news/news738.htmAt 10:00 am, October 30 in Chongqing City, there were 14,345 citizens enjoying hot springs at the same time during the launch of Tourist Season, Chinas Spa Capital. It broke the Shanghai Great World Guinness record. The activity of Ten Thousand People Simultaneously Enjoying Hot Springs was held in Tongjing Spring, Ronghui Spring, Jinyun Public Spring and other 12 else hot spots. In order to count accurately, the host party specially set up special counting equipment in every attraction. The ac...]]>Tue 31 Oct 2011 13:27:00 GMTwendysonghttp://www.chinatravel.com/china-travel-news/news737.htm The Shenzhou-8 unmanned spacecraft is scheduled to be launched at 5:58 GMT on November 1, 2011, a spokesman for Chinas manned space program announced on October 31. The decision was made at the fifth meeting by the headquarters of rendezvous and docking mission of Tiangong-1 and Shenzhou-8 spacecraft. On October 31, fuel has been added to the Long March-2F rocket which will carry Shenzhou-8 into orbit. The spacecraft is expected to perform Chinas first space docking with Tiangong-1, or He...]]>