Royal Tulip Garden Hotel Zhujiajiao, the first five-star standard hotel in the Qingpu district of Shanghai, will have a soft opening on New Year's Day 2010, and is slated to formally open around the Spring Festival in 2010.

The civil aviation administrations of the mainland and Taiwan have reached agreement on such topics as increasing new destinations in mainland and increasing the number of flights during the Spring Festival.

Emirates Airlines has recently set up a Dubai Visa Reception Center in Guangzhou.

Dengfeng Songshan Shaolin Cultural Tourism Group, which is wholly-owned by the Dengfeng government, and CTS subsidiary, China Travel International Investment Hong Kong Limited, have jointly set up a joint venture — CTS (Dengfeng) Songshan Shaolin Cultural Tourism Company.

The 554-room five-star Harbour Plaza Hong Kong will be rebranded as Harbour Grand Kowloon on January 28, 2010.

Landison Plaza Hotel Cixi, which is located in Xiaolin Town, Cixi City, Zhejiang province, had its soft opening on Christmas Eve 2009.

The Development Master Plan for Taiwan Strait West Coast Tourism Zone (2010-2020) has been approved by the Cross-Strait Tourism Forum Review Committee.

China and Vietnam are planning to build a "China-Vietnam International Tourism Cooperation Zone" on the border of the two countries to attract more tourists from China, Southeast Asia, Europe and the Americas.

Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Azevedo Jobim recently visited China for five days and stayed at Grand Central Hotel Shanghai. During his stay the minister and his wife were photographed with Joseph Ge, the deputy general manager of Grand Central Hotel Shanghai.

Solar Valley Micro-E Hotel, which is positioned as the world's first environmentally-friendly theme park-style hotel, opened during Christmas in Dezhou, Shandong province.