Good news, bad news on UNESCO’s world heritage
July 5, 2015
The good news: The Great Barrier Reef is no longer one of the most endangered World Heritage sites. The bad news: a number of World
The good news: The Great Barrier Reef is no longer one of the most endangered World Heritage sites. The bad news: a number of World
Peak travel season is on, and as many as a third of the vacationers are headed for rural areas. Rural tourism is a hot trend in China now, accounting for a third of all holidays.
Hello Kitty has friends all over the world, and she’s extremely popular in China. Which explains why Kitty-creator Sanrio of Japan went in on a
The Great Wall, built in the Ming Dynasty and one of China’s greatest tourist attractions, is a mere remnant of itself, according to a Beijing
Sometimes it’s hard for a place or a company to shake an image, and sometimes the best strategy is to just embrace it. That’s what
China has announced a new bi-annual air show, with the first event to be held in Deyang, in Sichuan Province, in 2017. China is the fastest-growing market for airliners and is also an important manufacturing center for aviation equipment and parts.
Shanghai wants the world to know it’s not taking second place to anyone in the Leaning Tower business, and they have numbers to make their case. Alright, they admit, the Shanghai tower, at right above, is only about 20 meters high compared with…
Visitors at Mao Zedong’s birthplace Photo: Brucke-Osteuropa / Wikimedia Chinese and Russian tourism authorities
Elephants in Tanzania’s Ruaha national wildlife park. Photo: Anna Rydin / Wikimedia China has pledged to phase out manufacture and sale of products
Last week I was listening to an episode of one of my favorite radio shows – “This American Life” It was an episode about foreigners in China. several of the Americans who now live in China spoke about how being a European in Beijing no longer draws the attention that it used to.
The good news: The Great Barrier Reef is no longer one of the most endangered World Heritage sites. The bad
Peak travel season is on, and as many as a third of the vacationers are headed for rural areas. Rural tourism is a hot trend in China now, accounting for a third of all holidays.
Hello Kitty has friends all over the world, and she’s extremely popular in China. Which explains why Kitty-creator Sanrio of
The Great Wall, built in the Ming Dynasty and one of China’s greatest tourist attractions, is a mere remnant of
Sometimes it’s hard for a place or a company to shake an image, and sometimes the best strategy is to
China has announced a new bi-annual air show, with the first event to be held in Deyang, in Sichuan Province, in 2017. China is the fastest-growing market for airliners and is also an important manufacturing center for aviation equipment and parts.
Shanghai wants the world to know it’s not taking second place to anyone in the Leaning Tower business, and they have numbers to make their case. Alright, they admit, the Shanghai tower, at right above, is only about 20 meters high compared with…
Visitors at Mao Zedong’s birthplace Photo: Brucke-Osteuropa / Wikimedia
Elephants in Tanzania’s Ruaha national wildlife park. Photo: Anna Rydin / Wikimedia China has pledged to phase out
Last week I was listening to an episode of one of my favorite radio shows – “This American Life” It was an episode about foreigners in China. several of the Americans who now live in China spoke about how being a European in Beijing no longer draws the attention that it used to.