787 Dreamliner Changing the China-US Market
Hainan Airlines has just begin Boston to Beijing non-stop service, a nearly 6500-mile route made possible by the extended range and fuel economy of the 787.
Hainan Airlines has just begin Boston to Beijing non-stop service, a nearly 6500-mile route made possible by the extended range and fuel economy of the 787.
Seems like almost every day one airline or another is announcing increased service between the U.S. and China—and American is not sitting out the increasing competition.
On my way from Hong Kong Island to Lantau Island and the Po Lin Monastery, I caught the ferry at Central for the ride to Mui Wo. Emerging from the terminal building there, I was struck by the dense sea of bicycles parked to one side.
Responding to reports of Chinese tourists being targeted by thieves in Paris, a group of Chinese police officers will patrol with their French counterparts this summer. Thieves apparently believe that Chinese tourists are more likely than most to be carrying cash.
On a walk along an isolated road in rural southern China, I came upon a wooded hillside dotted with tombs.
Air service between the East Coast and China continues to grow, along with Chinese overseas tourism and U.S. travel to China
Sometimes the most interesting things are the most mundane, people doing simple tasks as they've been done, seemingly, forever. This is a village near the Fuli market on the Li River in Guangxi Province, southern China.
Air China is launching a new long-distance route from Barcelona to Beijing, with one stop in Vienna, hoping to catch the two big waves of Chinese tourists heading for Europe and Europeans visiting China.
This gallery is just what it says, details, noticed as I went here and there during a sojourn in rural China.
Increasing Chinese tourism to the U.S. is pushing the tourism industry to get "China-ready," by preparing Chinese translations, hiring Chinese-speaking staff and tuning up to meet Chinese visitors' particular needs and interests.
On the second day of a 2-day tour of Fujian tulou clusters, begun with a large Chinese group on a bus and finished the next day alone on foot, I walked along a road with my non-English speaking guide and came upon this beautiful house.
Welcome to my gallery of photographs from a day spent wandering among the stalls at the big Fuli market. The market isn't for the tourists but is a farmer's market for the people of the area, near Yangshuo.
With nearly 100 million Chinese traveling abroad in the last year, China's airlines are looking to expand their share of the business with more planes, more destinations and more promotions.
On a grouping of hilltops, in the countryside outside Yangshuo in Guangxi Province in the south of China, I spent a day wandering in a misty tea garden with no one in sight except the young woman who accompanied us.
West Lake is a 6.5 square kilometer freshwater lake situated in my hometown city of Hangzhou, in eastern China. Unlike the towering high rises and skyscrapers of its neighboring city, Shanghai, Hangzhou is famous for its natural beauty.