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.
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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China's tourism industry will play a growing role in the country's economic growth, with direct investment in the sector expected to hit three trillion yuan (490 billion U.S. dollars) in the coming three years, according to a tourism official.
Tourism authorities will urge travel agencies to monitor tour groups and will explore the use of personal credit reports to identify possible offenders in advance.
China's domestic tourism market is expected to see 6 billion journeys by 2020, said a senior official on Saturday.
As Myanmar is nearing the target of 3 million visitors by the end of this year, the country anticipates bright prospects for its tourism industry in 2015 .
The local customs and cultural heritage of the ancient town of Pingyao in Shanxi Province is under threat due to the rapid development of tourism.
China is set to see its tourism deficit exceed 100 billion U.S. dollars this year as Chinese traveling overseas spend much more than foreign visitors back home, according to a report by the China Tourism Academy (CTA).
China may expand its 72-hour visa-free policy for foreigners in a bid to boost the country's tourism.
The government on Friday told New Zealand's adventure tourism operators that a deadline to comply with new safety regulations was "non-negotiable" as it moves to clean up the industry's reputation.
The fruits of Australia's largest ever tourism drive, the Greater China Corroboree held last month, have begun to yield dividends with a new strategic direction that Tourism Australia's (TA) ambitious new Tsar, John O'Sullivan, hopes will boost Australia's chances in the global race for tourism's highest prize: the outbound Chinese tourists with a taste for sophisticated adventure.
The Albanian government and the World Tourism Organization will organize an international conference later this year to discuss ways and exchange experiences on how to manage seasonality in tourism.
Nearly 200 Chinese travel agency operators, their family and friends are on a trip to the Tianshan Mountains, in the latest move to boost tourism in Xinjiang amid terrorism threat.
"Marine tourism is said to be dynamics of Vietnamese marine economy," said an official on Wednesday.
Macao's Guo Hong (International) Investment and Development Co. Ltd was officially launched in Cambodia on Monday with an investment plan in developing a large- scale eco-tourism farm in northeastern Cambodia, the company's Managing Director Wu Jinlong said.
A symposium to explore sustainable models for the development of coastal tourism in the Caribbean kicked off in Grenada on Thursday.
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