Air China will launch a new non-stop service from Shanghai to Milan, effective from March 30, 2008.

Chinese Internet travel company Ctrip.com is proving it is the master of China's online tourism space with record quarterly results announced for the end of 2007.

The Yangzhou Tourism Bureau has officially unveiled renewal results of star-grade hotels in Yangzhou for 2007, and of the hotels reviewed 44 passed renewal, six lost their qualifications, and four had the renewal deferred.

The OCT Group and CITS Group Corporation have signed a framework agreement to set up a strategic cooperation relationship.

Dragonair announced that it will implement summer flight schedules starting from March 30, 2008. The company will greatly increase the frequency of flights to mainland China this summer.

Cristina Teuscher, an American Olympic gold medalist at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games and bronze medalist at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, was welcomed by David Thornton, director of sales and marketing of the Howard Johnson Plaza Shanghai along with staff members of English First. Teuscher attended the Life Club activity organized by EF English [...]

Sara Janine Thorley, manager at British Airways China, welcoming passengers at the airline's check-in counter in the newly opened Terminal 3 at Beijing Capital International Airport. British Airways is one of the first six carriers to move to the new Terminal 3 at BCIA on February 29, 2008.

The Guangxi's Beihai government and Xi'an Aircraft Industry Group Company have signed a contract for a five-star resort hotel in Beihai Sliver Beach.

According to a recent tourism planning meeting in Tianjin, the city will focus on three main sectors of city sightseeing, leisure traveling and MICE in its tourism industry.

Chinese Internet travel website eLong.com says total net revenues increased 27% year-on-year to RMB82.9 million and net loss from continuing operations worsened year-on-year by RMB11.7 million to RMB12.1 million driven primarily by a RMB15.3 million increase in unrealized foreign exchange losses.