The Global Hotel Alliance partners Kempinski, Omni, Pan Pacific and Rydges have welcomed three new members to the GHA.

The World Tourism Organization is working with the local Guilin government to build the city into a top quality travel destination.

Hilton Hotels announced the latest milestone in its expansion effort for the upscale, full-service Doubletree hotel collection in the burgeoning China market with the signing a multi-year agreement with Tianjin Automobile Industrial Group Company, one of China's largest automobile manufacturers, to manage an upscale, 360-room hotel in Tianjin.

Besides the recently opened five-star Ramada Plaza Optics Valley Hotel Wuhan Wuchang, a number of other top hotels will enter Wuhan in the next few months.

Emirates Airline's commercial success is partly the result of the company taking maximum advantage of Dubai's central geographic location as well as the lack of night flying restrictions at Dubai International Airport, enabling it to achieve a high utilization of its aircraft fleet and to offer a growing number of convenient East-West as well as [...]

Antonio Villaraigosa, Mayor of Los Angeles, was warmly welcomed by Akram Touma, General Manager of Le Royal Méridien Shanghai, during the mayor's recent visit as part of an official government delegation. Los Angeles is a sister city of Shanghai.

Renaissance Yangtze Shanghai Hotel announced that Carrie Fu, Director of Revenue Management, has recently been presented the Revenue Management Leader of the Year- Property – International 2005 award in acknowledgment of her outstanding performance in the revenue field. Fu is the only such recipient in all of Mainland China to receive such a prestigious honor.

From November 6, 2006, new safety regulations for hand luggage apply to all departures and onward flights from European Union airports as well as Iceland, Norway and Switzerland, in order to meet the requirements of the revised, EU-wide Security Regulation.

Xiamen's location in southeastern Fujian province, looking over the Taiwan Strait and bordering the cities of Quanzhou and Zhangzhou, puts it squarely in the sights of domestic and international businesses. As one of the earliest special economic zones in China, its port of trade was first used by Europeans in 1541 because of its huge, [...]

The Chongqing Municipal Tourism Bureau says that Chongqing's government will oversee about RMB1 billion to build the first platinum five-star hotel in the area within this year.