ChinaContact Weekly Newsletter, 18th November 2014

  ChinaContact     Weekly Newsletter 18th November 2014  Greetings!   The increase of Chinese tourists travelling abroad is now followed by Chinese hospitality groups expanding internationally and buying overseas hotels out. The announcement made last Wednesday of Jing Jiang International buying French hotel group, Louvres Hotels group, has been causing quite a commotion. This acquisition […]

ChinaContact Weekly Newsletter, 17th June 2014

      ChinaContact   Weekly Newsletter   17th June, 2014 Greetings!   China’s HNWIs are now looking for the experience of a lifetime when it comes to tourism, they have sky-high expectations and want nothing less than to be over the moon when it comes to their holidays satisfaction.   No doubt then that […]

ChinaContact Weekly Newsletter, 26th May 2014

    ChinaContact   Weekly Newsletter   26th May, 2014 Greetings!     Last week we talked about the shift from mass group travel to individual travellers from China. This is a new phenomenon and the shift is happening fast. However thanks to the addition of new people to the middle classes in China, tourists […]

ChinaContact Weekly Newsletter, 17th February 2014

      ChinaContact Weekly Newsletter 17th February, 2014 Greetings!   The world’s largest tourism fair, ITB (Internationale Tourismus-Börse) will take place in Berlin on 5-7th March. It will gather companies operating in the tourism sector from all over the world and offer a large number of networking opportunities. ChinaContact Business Development Manager Sylvie Chen […]

ChinaContact Weekly Newsletter 10th February 2014

      ChinaContact Weekly Newsletter 10th February, 2014 Greetings!   The news of this week highlighted destinations’ eagerness to welcome the growing wave of Chinese visitors-shoppers. Special Chinese New Year celebrations were held, shops decorated their windows with red lanterns and golden welcoming Chinese characters, Chinese speaking staff were hired and for a moment […]

ChinaContact Weekly Newsletter 27th January 2014

      ChinaContact Weekly Newsletter   27th January, 2014 Greetings !   On Jan 22nd took place the Hurun/Chopsticks Club event sponsored by Bank of China, where Roy Graff was a guest speaker and panel chair on the luxury Chinese outbound travel market, click here to see his presentation. Last week, Hurun Report also published […]

ChinaContact Weekly Newsletter 13th January 2014

    ChinaContact Weekly Newsletter   13th January, 2014 Greetings !   On January 22nd will take place the Next Stop London for Chinese HNWI conference. Focusing on legal, wealth management and luxury retail, it will highlight what is best practices when dealing with high net worth Chinese.    Keynote speakers including China observers, Chinese entrepreneurs and government representatives will […]

Do the US Presidential elections matter to Chinese outbound tourism into the USA?

As  I was reading transcripts of the second Presidential debate it struck me  that China bashing had become the new Olympic sport. Does the small matter of who sits in the White House make a difference to the number of Chinese visitors coming to the United States? The Chinese visitors that spend big bucks on […]

The China Outbound Travel Education Series – part 11: USA as a destination

With the advent of a bilateral tourism agreement signed between the US and China at the end of 2007, the Chinese industry was excited about the prospects of a new shining and sought after destination for their clients. Equally excited were the US state and city tourism promotion bodies and private tour operators eager to […]