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AirAsia’s new route to attract more Chinese tourists

LANGKAWI, March 22 — Low-cost carrier, AirAsia Bhd, expects its new Langkawi-Shenzhen route to boost the number of tourists from China to here. Its chief executive officer, Aireen Omar, said the airline’s third international route

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Why are Japanese so condescending to Chinese tourists?

Days after brawls involving up to 100 Chinese tourists broke out at an airport in Hokkaido, Japanese outrage is dissipating – and turning into condescension. The fighting that broke out between the passengers and Japanese

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What Chinese tourists are buying in Japan

TOKYO —Often when you visit another country, one thing on everyone’s to-do list is a little shopping. It’s always interesting to see what products a foreign country offers that you can’t find back home. It’s

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Switzerland: Special trains for Chinese tourists

A mountain resort in Switzerland is launching special train services for Chinese tourists to defuse tensions with other visitors, it is reported. Noisy throngs of Chinese tourists disturb those who visit Mount Rigi in the

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Visit California offers seminar on Chinese market

Visit California, the state’s tourism commission, is going on the road with a three-hour seminar on how to reach Chinese tourists. It will take place 8:30 a.m. May 10 at Ontario Convention Center. The cost

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Chinese tourists second largest last year

Recording half a million Chinese visitors last year, Myanmar is hoping to make China one of its main tourism partners, the Ministry of Hotels and Tourism said. Minister U Ohn Maung said visitors from China