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What We Can Learn From Chinese New Year
China's biggest holiday has come and gone. The festivities were filled with the usual orchestra of pyrotechnics, red paper cut-outs symbolising good fortune, and reunited families huddling together...
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Chinese Independent Travellers Eating up a Storm
Group travel has been losing its shine for some time with Chinese tourists. Research by TNS last August found that 62% of Chinese tourists would prefer to travel independently. This has been backed up...
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Wooing Chinese Tourists: Thinking Beyond Slippers and Kettles
Last week in Beijing, free Wifi was rolled out across 12,000 of the city's buses. It's great news for the millions of Internet-obsessed commuters in the capital, but also relevant for tourism...
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Chinese Tourists' Life Cycle
109 million Chinese tourists travelled 'abroad' last year - a particularly impressive number given just 31 million did so in 2005. Yet, what many reports don't highlight is that more than two thirds...
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Yet Another Unnecessary Victim of Trademark Squatting in China
New Balance has done some great work positioning itself as an aspirational, but affordable fashion brand in China. It's hard to walk a block in China's hipper urban suburbs without seeing young...
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Tim Cook and PM Modi's Weibo Validation
Earlier this month, Apple's Tim Cook and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi opened accounts on Weibo. Modi's selfie with Premier Li Keqiang and Tim Cook's chronicles of his four day trip to China,...
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Chinese Investment Overseas Gathering Pace
In 2013, there were 2.9 million U.S. Dollar millionaires in China. They were 38 years old on average. 12-months later, following a year of slowing GDP growth, low to negative house price movements in...
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China's Tourism Growth and Transformation
If you're looking for a jaw-dropping illustration of China's growing presence in the world, go no further than the United Nations World Tourism Organisation's outbound tourism expenditure chart from...
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There's Plenty to Smile About in China's Consumer Market
It's easy to spot grim news about China with a quick scan of the headlines these days. News of plummeting stocks, slowing GDP and sales growth could be interpreted as the end of China's golden...
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Buzzwords: China's Tourism Trends
Despite slowing GDP growth in China, continued income growth is seeing more Mainlanders reaching the necessary standards of living to engage in travel. In 2012, Mainland China surpassed both Germany...
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