Beijing’s new JingCheng Expressway has now been completed, making hiking trips to the Great Wall more convenient for travelers. The new motorway stretches south from Beijing to Chengdu and passes the base of the Jinshanling Great Wall, where the most famous hike begins from there to the Simatai Great Wall. The China Guide, (http://www.thechinaguide.com/), an American owned and operated tour agency, will now use the new JingCheng Expressway to get visitors to the famous hiking destination in a safer and timelier fashion.
The director of the Puerto Rico Tourism Company, a state agency known by the initials CTPR, has launched a series of meetings with directors of cruise lines with the goal of making the U.S. commonwealth the Caribbean base for the industry.
The Falkland Islands is reporting a record cruise season last winter. From October 2008 through April 2009, 62,600 passengers arrived on 105 ships, topping off a decade of 218 percent growth. Feb. 6, 2009, was a record-setting day with 4,053 visitors arriving on cruise ships in one day.
South Africa is gearing up to extend a warm welcome to the thousands of soccer fans who will be visiting to the country to attend the 2010 FIFA World Cup. An estimated 26 billion viewers from across the globe expected to tune in to TV to watch the 64 matches being played out in nine host cites, from June 11 to July 11, 2010.
South Africa is gearing up to extend a warm welcome to the thousands of soccer fans who will be visiting to the country to attend the 2010 FIFA World Cup. An estimated 26 billion viewers from across the globe expected to tune in to TV to watch the 64 matches being played out in nine host cites, from June 11 to July 11, 2010.
PATA’s efforts to lead a tourism recovery for disaster-hit Samoa took another step this week with a one-day workshop headed by the island’s Deputy Prime Minister Misa Telfoni. Telfoni will be joined by key travel industry representatives from the public and private sectors under the workshop banner “Samoa Tourism Exchange -- Moving Forward.”