Beijing's Capital International Airport will start using its Terminal 3 by the end of February 2008.

Air China will increase its global network with a new service in Asia linking the Beijing capital to Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, on January 2, 2008, and will operate three times per week with Boeing 737 aircraft.

The Sichuan Provincial Tourism Bureau and Sichuan Provincial Investment Promotion Bureau recently organized a tourism promotion meeting in Chengdu, and more than 30 enterprises attended this meeting including groups from the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Macau, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangxi, Shanxi, Shaanxi and Sichuan.

Asia Properties, Inc. has signed a letter of intent to acquire a property development site near Guangzhou.

Singer Yan Weiwen was welcomed by Christophe Lajus, the general manager of Crowne Plaza Fudan Shanghai for his visit. Chris Adams, executive assistant manager for food and beverage also attended the welcome ceremony.

News from tourism quality supervision training held in Anhui is that new regulations on the management of travel agencies has been submitted to the Legislative Affairs Office of the State Council and will be discussed in the executive meeting of State Council in December.

HuiFeng (Fujian) Development Company Limited and Jinling Hotels & Resorts Corporation have signed a management contract for Quanzhou Yingbin Hotel and New Royal Prince Hotel Quanzhou.

The State-owned Assets Supervision And Administration Commission Of Anhui Provincial Government announced in a press conference that construction will start on the Xinqiao Airport on December 28.

Global Hotel Alliance, one of the world's largest alliance of independent hotel chains, is holding its bi-annual CEO meeting for the first time in China at the end of November, hosted by the recently-opened Skyway Landis Hotel in Shanghai.

Swissotel Kunshan says it is the first hotel in Kunshan to obtain its official five-star rating.