The Hong Kong Tourism Board says it welcomes a plan to fast-track visa applications by Russian group tours coming from Mainland China.

Air New Zealand has announced it will commence reciprocal codeshare flights with Air China effective from July 1, 2007.

Tourism Ministers from China, Japan and South Korea have announced a Qingdao Manifesto on Promoting Tourism Exchange and Cooperation among China, Japan and South Korea at the second tourism cooperation conference among the three countries held in Qingdao.

Li Xun, director of the Management Division of Nanjing Municipal Tourism Bureau, has told local media that in the second half of this year, Nanjing will issue a budget hotel standard to guide and regulate the development of the city's fast growing budget hotels.

The Beijing Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games held the third 2008 Olympic Games Sponsor workshop on June 20, 2007, at Swissotel Beijing. About 400 delegates, representing the sponsor companies and global partners of the 2008 Olympic Games as well as the Chinese Olympic Committee and the Beijing Olympic Committee, attended this workshop.

Former United States Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize winner Henry Kissinger was recently welcomed at the Sofitel Galaxy Nanjing during his three-day visit of Nanjing.

Feon Lin works at General Electric in China. One of her roles at GE is to constantly be on the lookout for new travel options for her colleagues when she books corporate travel packages. In her leisure time Feon enjoys traveling, playing sports and culinary activities, all complementing her travel responsibilities at work.

Total visitor arrivals to Hong Kong exceeded 2.2 million in May 2007, a year-on-year increase of 12.6%, the Hong Kong Tourism Board announced.

Macao Studio City and Playboy Enterprises have announced plans to open a Playboy-inspired multi-faceted entertainment destination in Macao.

New York City is looking to attract more inbound Chinese nationals, and the city has just opened offices in mainland China.