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<title>Chinese people spread their wings for New Year travel</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:16:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Increasing numbers of newly affluent Chinese people are choosing to enjoy their lunar new year holidays overseas. About 300,000 packed their bags this week despite prices being 20% higher than usual, reports the Malaysian Chinese-language newspaper Sin Chew Daily.Shanghai Airport Authority told ]]></description>
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<title>REFILE-China outbound deals to grow double digits in 2012 - PwC</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:13:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[China's overseas acquisitions, which reached a record in 2011, will continue double-digit growth this year as increasingly sophisticated Chinese buyers seek bargains amid the global downturn, said consultancy PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC).China's outbound investments have grown steadily in the af]]></description>
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<title>Chinese travelers are seeing the USA in record numbers</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:19:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Eager to spend their growing disposable income, travelers from mainland China's wealthy and rising middle classes are traversing the globe in search of iconic destinations they can cross off their bucket lists.That wanderlust has increasingly brought them to a dream destination, the USA, in rece]]></description>
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<title>Chinese tourists splurge US$7.2b overseas for luxuries during the Spring Festival</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:57:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Chinese consumers were big buyers of luxury goods worldwide during the recent Spring Festival holiday, an industry report showed.Chinese tourists' spending on luxury goods overseas reached $7.2 billion in January, driven by holiday trips during the Spring Festival holiday that began on Jan 23, t]]></description>
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<title>China, UAE to enjoy wider prospect for co-op</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:21:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is continuing his visit to countries in the Gulf. He called the establishment of a strategic partnership with the UAE, an opportunity to create a broader prospect for the two nations in the expansion of bilateral cooperation. The UAE is now China&rsquo;s second largest tra]]></description>
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<title>London department stores become the 'Great Mall of China'</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:08:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The amazing capacity for spending displayed by Chinese tourists has not gone unnoticed in the international luxury market. Swarms of tourists from China visited the United Kingdom during the New Year shopping season and each on average spent more than 2,500 pounds (around US$4,000) in London's famou]]></description>
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<title>World tour lures Chinese adventurers</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:29:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A Shanghai couple is among a group of 11 tourists from the Chinese mainland, who set off Sunday for a grand world tour that will see them traverse a dozen countries and reach both poles in a whirlwind 66 days for a whopping 660,000 yuan ($104,216) - and part of the nation's rising affluent demograph]]></description>
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<title>Chinese manufacturing company buys Ferretti Group</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:52:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A manufacturing company from east China's Shandong Province will buy Italian luxury yachtmaker Ferretti Group, according to an agreement the two firms reached on Tuesday in the provincial capital of Jinan.The Weichai Holding Group Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Shandong Heavy Industry Co., Ltd., wil]]></description>
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<title>Better-off Chinese travel abroad for Lunar New Year</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:58:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[As millions rushed to board a homebound train before the Chinese Lunar New Year, a growing number of avid travelers decided to spend the most important holiday far away from home.China Youth Travel Service (CYTS), a leading outbound tourism service provider, has expected a 35-percent rise in the]]></description>
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<title>Seville, first ˇ°Chinese Friendly Cityˇ± in Europe</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:32:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Last week, during the International Tourism Fair (FITUR) held in Madrid, the city of Seville and the Chinese Embassy in Spain signed a cooperation agreement which proclaimed Seville as the first &ldquo;Chinese Friendly City&rdquo; in Europe.Seville aims to give Chinese Tourists a &ldquo;special ]]></description>
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<title>Fitur 2012 demonstrate the uproar of tourism despite concerns over economy in Europe</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[During the five days of Fitur 2012 over 10,434 exhibitors from 166 countries and 209,260 visitors including tourism officials and travel professionals as well as general public, met during Fitur to transform leisure into business and business into development for those destinations that welcome mill]]></description>
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<title>China's Dragon travelers promise bumper year for New Zealand tourism</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:24:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The number of Chinese coming to New Zealand this month looks set to soar by 25 percent over January last year as they celebrate the Spring Festival in the southern summer, a senior New Zealand tourism official said Thursday. About 14,550 Chinese traveled to New Zealand in January 2011, but the i]]></description>
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<title>Chinese tourists to get US visa easier</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:39:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Chinese travelers to the United States will enjoy upgraded visa service soon as US President Barack Obama Thursday announced a new initiative to boost tourism. As part of a comprehensive effort to spur job creation, the administration mapped out a national strategy to make the US the world&rsquo]]></description>
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<title>FITUR 2012: Investour Africa Provides a Boost for Sustainable Tourism on the Continent</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:24:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ The Tourism Investment Forum for Africa (INVESTOUR), an event organised in conjunction with the UNWTO, will stage its third edition at the International Tourism Trade Fair 2012(FITUR), with the East African Community and the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC) serving as G]]></description>
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<title>FITUR 2012: the Year of the Mayas</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:09:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Fitur, the International Tourism Trade Fair, celebrates its 32nd edition from 18 to 22 January 2012 in Madrid, Spain. The year 2012 will witness one of the most intriguing events relating to Maya civilisation: &quot;Baktun&quot; or the end of the Mayan calendar. At FITUR, a key trade fair f]]></description>
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<title>The Public can Request Participation at 'Folklore Art With Us'</title>
<link>http://news.travel168.net/20120119/28554.html</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[FITUR 2012 will, thus, stage the second edition of the Interactive Folklore Marathon, an initiative that is due to take place on the weekend of Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd January. Members of the public will be able to take part in one of the workshops that have been organised so that they can dis]]></description>
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<title>Chinese company's 6 bln USD investment in Brunei</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:19:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A privately-owned company in east China's Zhejiang province said Wednesday its 6-billion-U.S.-dollar investment in a petrochemical plant in Brunei benefits both sides.Zhejiang Hengyi Group Co., China's largest chemical-fiber supplier for the textile industry, said in a statement it will build a ]]></description>
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<title>Paris airport retrofits to woo Chinese tourists during Spring Festival</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[France's airport service provider Aeroports de Paris on Tuesday launched new initiatives to meet Chinese tourists who will flush in during the Chinese lunar new year, the Spring Festival, which will fall on Jan. 23. To make the Chinese passengers feel &quot;being at home,&quot; the Charles de Ga]]></description>
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<title>FITUR Opened Successfully in Spain</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:06:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The opening ceremony of FITUR has taken place at 11.00 am on 18th January and it hosted in the Fair's business area at the North Gate.On this occasion, Don Felipe de Borb&oacute;n and Do&ntilde;a Letizia Ortiz, the Prince and Princess of Asturias, have been entrusted with inaugurating the next editi]]></description>
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<title>China overtakes UK to become fifth largest wine-consuming nation</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In the past year, China has overtaken the UK to join the list of the world&rsquo;s top five wine-consuming nations, according to new figures released by Vinexpo.Results from the annual study by The International Wine &amp; Spirit Research (IWSR) show that between 2009 and 2010 consumption of sti]]></description>
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