Visitor arrivals to Hong Kong in the first six months of 2007 have grown by 6.8% to more than 13 million, the Hong Kong Tourism Board announced today.

Australia's Tourism Queensland Minister Margaret Keech has announced a new program focused on encouraging inbound Chinese travelers.

To celebrate 20 years of flying to China, and 35 years of friendly relations between China and Japan, ANA has decorated a Beijing-based 767-300 in a panda motif to fly around China for the next two years.

April Zhu is based in the Shanghai representative office of FMC Asia-Pacific and is responsible for handling corporate travel planning. Appropriately for a person with her role, she enjoys traveling for pleasure as well as for business.

The Hong Kong Tourism Board says that it has revoked the credentials from three some merchants under the Quality Tourism Services scheme.

Air Macau has started its regular service between Macau and Osaka.

The Macau Government Tourist Office has been granted the Grand Award for Heritage by the Pacific Asia Travel Association.

In order to protect tourists' interests and ensure a healthy development of the Chinese tourism industry, the China National Tourism Administration says it is continuing to crackdown on zero-fee tour packages.

The South Korea National Tourism Organization has just opened a travel consulting center in Beijing to serve Chinese tourists who want to travel in South Korea and to promote the cultural exchanges between China and South Korea.

Radisson Hotel Pudong Century Park has made two recent additions to its executive staff.