{"id":14401,"date":"2009-12-10T05:31:44","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T21:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/en\/?p=14401"},"modified":"2009-12-10T05:31:44","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T21:31:44","slug":"china-announces-approved-destination-status-for-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2009\/12\/10\/14401\/","title":{"rendered":"China Announces Approved Destination Status For Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Stephen Harper, the prime minister of Canada, the Chinese government has approved Canada as one of its outbound tourism destinations.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Stephen Harper announced this news after his meeting with the Chinese prime minister, Wen Jiabao, in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Harper stated Approved Destination Status indicates that, not only are China and Canada committed to strengthening diplomatic and commercial partnerships, but people-to-people ties of the two countries are also strengthening.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, visits to Canada by Chinese citizens were up 5.3% from the previous year, with a total of 159,000 visitors. Statistics show that Chinese tourists to Canada stayed longer (28 nights), and spent more money, than visitors from any other country. According to a Conference Board of Canada survey, ADS is expected to boost the yearly rate of travel to Canada from China by up to 50% by 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Stephen Harper, the prime minister of Canada, the Chinese government has approved Canada as one of its outbound tourism destinations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[11161,14910,13254,12814,17718,12782,13582],"class_list":["post-14401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-ads","tag-approved-destination-status","tag-canada","tag-statistics","tag-stephen-harper","tag-tourism","tag-wen-jiabao"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}