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Mexico seeks to attract more Chinese travellers

​Mexico needs to facilitate Chinese tourists' visit to the country by training more Chinese-speaking tourist guides and allowing group visas, an official of Mexico's leading tourism association said on Thursday.

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China, Muslim countries reach tourism deals

Tourism authorities and enterprises in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, a predominantly Muslim area, have signed business deals with counterparts from Arab countries and Malaysia at a trade fair in regional capital Yinchuan.

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ASEAN tourism ministers calls for striving towards quality tourist destinations

Tourism ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) call for efforts to become a quality tourist destinations under a new ASEAN Tourism Strategic Plan (ATSP) 2016-25, said a joint media statement of the 18th ASEAN Tourism Ministers Meeting (ATMM) released here on Monday.

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ASEAN+3 ministers see intra travel main source of tourism growth

Tourism ministers from the ASEAN Plus Three (China, Japan and South Korea) said here on Monday that intra-APT travel remained the main source of tourism growth in the region.

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Myanmar stresses regional tourism cooperation

​Myanmar President U Thein Sein said on Monday that ASEAN tourism sector has seen considerable positive growth in the last consecutive years, reflecting the growth potentials and regional cooperation of ASEAN.

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ASEAN travel exhibition to feature tourism products, services

The upcoming ASEAN Trade Travel Exhibition is expected to see more than 400 booths showcasing tourism products and services of the 10 member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the Myanmar Ministry of Hotels and Tourism said on Friday.

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Myanmar to host ASEAN tourism forum this month

​Myanmar will host ASEAN Tourism Forum-2015 later this month in Nay Pyi Taw aimed at enhancing the country's growth of tourist industry, the Hotels and Tourism Ministry said on Friday.

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Cambodia reports improved tourist accommodation capacity

The number of hotels in Cambodia reached 480 as of 2013, up 1 percent year on year, with that of guesthouses up 3 percent to 1,330, the Ministry of Tourism said in a report on Saturday.

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Thailand loses foreign visitors amid protests

The number of foreign visitors to Thailand has dropped by 300,000 so far due to the prolonged anti- government protests, a tourism official said Wednesday.

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Nepal to bring adventure tourism under scanner

With the number of unregulated firms operating adventure tourism mushrooming in the country, the Nepal government has introduced a new provision to bring such enterprises under the scanner.

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Chinese exhibitors at world travel market

The biggest world travel exhibition - the World Travel Market, opened on Monday in London.

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Ekin Cheng embarks on Australian adventure

Hong Kong actor and cantopop singer Ekin Cheng will showcase Cairns and Sydney's tourism experiences in a new television travel series aimed at encouraging more visitors from China, Tourism Australia announced Tuesday.

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"Tourism Year of China" kicks off in Russia

Visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, pushed for tourism cooperation when addressing the opening ceremony of the Year of Chinese Tourism in Russia on Friday evening.

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New Zealand ranked world's friendliest nations for tourists

New Zealand, along with Iceland, has been judged the world's friendliest nation for tourists, according to a report released by the World Economic Forum. 

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China launches Year of Marine Tourism

China's tourism administration Tuesday launched the Year of Marine Tourism in Sanya, south China's Hainan Province.