ChinaContact » » Tours http://chinacontact.org China market entry for luxury tourism, hospitality & retail Tue, 23 Dec 2014 14:09:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 ChinaContact announces the launch of the first immersive tourism education tour to China – 14 October 2013 http://chinacontact.org/blog/tour-to-china-14-october-2013 http://chinacontact.org/blog/tour-to-china-14-october-2013#respond Mon, 15 Apr 2013 01:33:28 +0000 http://chinacontact.org/?p=1390 In 2013, tourism professionals around the world are closely looking at China. The media has covered the outbound tourism potential from China from many angles, but what is real and what is hype? If you are involved in inbound tourism and looking to international growth market, you probably want to know:

  • What major changes and shifts will take place in China over the next few years?
  • How open is the market for Chinese visitors now? What can we learn from past development?
  • How can my business take advantage of the Chinese travel boom? 
  • What do we need to do in order to better serve the Chinese market?
  • Online travel – is China ready to fully embrace the online revolution?

Immersive Experiences

Chinese tourism is now undoubtedly the most dominant market in the world which will impact on nearly every destination. The impact may be largely positive economically, but also carries risk of overwhelming tourist destinations and adding pressures on resources and communities. In order to know how to increase the positive benefits of the growth in Chinese outbound tourism while mitigating the adverse effects, a close look at the Chinese tourism industry is needed.

Roy Graff, Managing Director of ChinaContact, has closely and personally witnessed this ‘Chinese miracle’ taking shape over the last 15 years. Working inside China, the changes he experienced taking place in domestic tourism were the pre-curser to what has happened in Asia and around the world.

Over the last 8 years, Roy has given speeches, published a book, blogged and provided training to tourism destinations, hotel groups, tour operators and attractions in an effort to increase their understanding of the Chinese tourists and how to best cater for the market. He believes that the best knowledge comes from personal experience and would like to help tourism organisations and companies gain that experience first hand through a dedicated, expert program created specifically for this purpose.

In mid-October 2013, Roy will personally lead a select group of tourism business leaders from around the world to see the real China. Most tourism professionals interested in China would have already visited Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong and perhaps exhibited at a travel show in one of these metropolises. You have seen the wealth and modernity of China now. But this is just a part of the story. In order to understand what the future holds, a closer look is needed into the effects that tourism has within China on many tourist attractions and at how 2nd, 3rd and 4th tier cities are now producing the next wave of middle class and affluent travellers.

The professionals who join this tour will benefit from a deep analysis of the economic changes and demographic pressures taking place in China, come to understand Chinese culture and business etiquette through direct interaction and personal experience, focusing on GuanXi (relationships) and Lian (face). They will experience how hotels, tourist attractions and travel suppliers are catering to Chinese tourists, meet and conduct business discussions with hand-selected travel agents and corporate buyers in Central and Western China – the new frontier in outbound tourism.

The tour is kindly supported by the China Outbound Tourism Research Institute (COTRI), China Business Services, China Luxury Advisors, and Travel Link Daily

Highlights of the tour:

  • Meet tourism officials and travel agents in Chengdu and Kunming
  • Witness the influence of Chinese tourism on local destinations and a variety of natural and man made attractions
  • Attend lectures on Chinese culture, business etiquette and customs
  • Have your China market strategy reviewed and receive custom advice on your business

To learn more, visit ChinaContact.org

]]> http://chinacontact.org/blog/tour-to-china-14-october-2013/feed 0 ChinaContact launches a first for UK&Ireland: a private internet technology tour to China http://chinacontact.org/blog/chinacontact-launches-a-first-for-ukireland-a-private-internet-technology-tour-to-china http://chinacontact.org/blog/chinacontact-launches-a-first-for-ukireland-a-private-internet-technology-tour-to-china#respond Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:17:11 +0000 http://www.ccontact.com/Blog/?p=665 In a first for the UK and following on the successful ‘geeks on a plane’ tour from Silicon Valley to China and Japan in June, ChinaContact has taken the initiative in organising a dedicated internet technology tour for British and Irish entrepreneurs and investors which will introduce them to the cutting edge of technology innovation in China. The tour will take place from 23-31 October visiting 5 cities and combining education, networking and high quality sightseeing. By visiting both the most developed cities and second tier cities where growth is at its fastest, the group will gain a deep insight into the opportunities that exist in this vast market.

ChinaContact has been providing market entry services for nearly five years and has developed an extensive network of contacts in China. The technology tour is intended for a small group of people visiting Beijing, Tianjin, Xian, Hangzhou and Shanghai. They will meet innovators and leaders in China’s tech & internet sectors and visit some of the most exciting, fast growing companies in China. Social events will allow the group to get to know local entrepreneurs and investors better. This tour is planned around entrepreneurs who are thinking of China as their next big market and want to understand the environment first-hand and/or looking for local partners that can help them with aspects of their business development.

For a true understading of the culture, they will visit some of the best tour attractions in China such as the Great Wall near Beijing, Terracotta Warriors in Xian and West Lake in Hangzhou.

ChinaContact MD Roy Graff is a veteran of China’s tourism industry with a focus on online travel and e-commerce. He lived in Shanghai and Beijing and traveled around China extensively. He will personally be leading this tour. This is a fantastic opportunity to enjoy direct and undiluted contact with fresh minds in China to see how much we have in common and how much we can learn from each other. An added option open to the group is to continue to the Hawaii Technology Week retreat in November.

Confirmed China partners (more will be announced soon):

  • Sam Flemming, Founder, CiC: China focused Internet Word of Mouth (i.e. blog and BBS message board) research and consulting firm.
  • George Godula, Co-founder, Web2Asia: Internet Entrepreneur and Marketing professiona based in Shanghai.
  • Kai Liang, Co-Founder and Acting Chairman at Coordinate Technologies Communication Ltd
  • Sage Brennan, MobileMonday Shanghai – mobilemondayshanghai.net. Telecoms Consultant with 10 years of China experience.
  • Kaiser Kuo, advisor to several Chinese Internet startups, including consulting work for China’s leading Internet video site, Youku.com.
  • Toni Piech, Founder, Piech Asia Enterprises: Beijing based business incubator that develops “home-grown” start up companies in which it aims to retain a majority stake.

Media partner: TechCrunch Europe

To learn more and apply for a place on the tour, visit http://techtour.chinacontact.co.uk

]]> http://chinacontact.org/blog/chinacontact-launches-a-first-for-ukireland-a-private-internet-technology-tour-to-china/feed 0 ChinaContact UK techie tour information and registration http://chinacontact.org/blog/ccuktour-information-and-registration http://chinacontact.org/blog/ccuktour-information-and-registration#respond Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:15:34 +0000 http://www.ccontact.com/Blog/?p=651 Tour details:
The plan is to organise a group of 15-20 people travelling to Beijing, Tianjin, Xian, Hangzhou and Shanghai in late October. The group will get to meet innovators and leaders in China’s tech and internet sectors and visit some of the most exciting, fast growing companies in China. Social events will allow group members to get to know local entrepreneurs and investors better. In between, we will visit some of the best tour attractions like the Great Wall, Terracotta Warriors and West Lake in Hangzhou. Last but not least, we will try out a fantastic array of high quality Chinese food in authentic settings.

Roy Graff is a veteran of China’s tourism industry with a focus on online travel and e-commerce. He lived in Shanghai and Beijing and travelled around China extensively. He will be personally leading this tour.

An added option is to continue with the group heading East and stop in Hawaii for the ‘geeks on an island’ retreat that Christine Lu is organising in the first week of November. More about this to come later.

Registration: We are collecting interest from people and will update on the cost and other details. The cost of the tours both to China alone and including Japan and Hawaii will be advised soon.
If you would like to register your interest please complete the form and we will be in touch with you.


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