Jimmy Zhang from Titicaca Travel, a Chinese travel company specialising in trips to the UK, says that Blackpool has not been a popular request as part of an itinerary for Chinese tour groups.
On September 15th Baidu, China's largest search engine, announced plans to list the shares of Qunar, a popular Chinese travel search aggregator, in which it purchased a controlling stake in June.
Applicants may be told to undertake costly travel and submit their paperwork at Chinese embassies in their home countries.
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In China, two key IBM officials and more than 100 employees engaged in a travel scam to provide personal vacations to Chinese government officials from 2004 to as late as early 2009, the SEC alleged.
If all goes according to plan, the Shenzhou IX space craft should be re-connected manually to Tiangong by Sunday morning, marking a giant leap for Chinese space travel and the first stages in a permanent space station within the next 8 years.
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U.S.-listed Chinese companies with headquarters in Shanghai include travel company Ctrip and online job information provider 51job.
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WildChina's Zhang said there have been similar issues in the past as Chinese citizens begin to travel internationally.
In recent years the Chinese have been able to travel abroad more freely to study and acquire skills.
In the end, of course, the Chinese travel boom -- and perhaps some of the resentment of it -- is driven by the almighty dollar.
In one study of telecommuting at a Chinese online travel agency, customer-service reps were both happier and more productive when working from home -- probably Yahoo service reps aren't any different from their Chinese counterparts in this regard.
Adelson hoped to recreate his success in Vegas, but Chinese authorities slapped fresh restrictions on travel to the former Portuguese colony, now a special administrative region.
The new Hilton Huanying and Starwood Personalized Travel programs aim to make Chinese tourists feel more welcome by providing in-room teakettles (versus coffee makers), Chinese tea, instant noodles and slippers.
That should stand the foreign chains in good stead, given that 100m Chinese are expected to travel overseas every year by 2020.
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The Japanese government has actively sought Chinese tourists in recent years, easing visa requirements in order to expand such travel.
Now as more Chinese people travel for business and for pleasure, these types of hotels are becoming commonplace in modernized China.
The new requirements may affect only a handful of students and businessmen who travel from Indian-administered Kashmir to China, but the diplomatic implications of the Chinese move could result in a serious deterioration of relations between Beijing and Delhi.
In May Tencent, another online giant, snapped up 16% of eLong, a Chinese online travel company that is part-owned by Expedia.
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