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Sep 14Mon
  1. China Tourism News

    Space Science Popularization Event Held in Beijing

    From September 11 to 13, the space-themed science popularization event "Interstellar Travel Guide: National Space Adventure Season" was held at the China Soong Ching Ling Science and Culture Center for Young People in Beijing. The event linked research institutes, museums and educational institutions to build a space science practice platform for the public of all ages. At the opening, the "Space Science into 100 Schools" public-welfare program was launched, initiated by the China Academy of Aerospace Systems Science and Engineering with multiple partners, based in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and reaching nationwide, with Jingshan School as the first stop and 240 student representative…

  2. Pinchain Tourism

    North China Camping Market Moves Toward Maturity and Value for Money

    The 2026 Shijiazhuang RV and Camping Festival was held from 10 to 13 September at the Hutuo River Art Ecological Island in Zhengding county. iiMedia Research data shows growth stabilising after a high-growth phase, with the core camping economy expected to approach 500 billion yuan by 2030. Liu Xiaolong, secretary-general of the Beijing RV, Camping and Self-Driving Tourism Association, said the northern peak season runs from April to October, with Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei resources complementing each other and Hebei becoming a key weekend destination. Equipment vendors report a shift from full-kit purchases to lightweight, on-demand buying.

  3. TravelDaily China

    Jinjiang Hotels Signs Strategic Cooperation with Guangdong Culture and Tourism Department

    On September 11, Jinjiang Hotels signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement with the Guangdong Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism in Guangzhou, establishing a long-term mechanism covering brand development, resource integration, consumption promotion, publicity and local cultural experiences. As of end-June 2026, Jinjiang Hotels operated more than 1,700 hotels across all 21 prefecture-level cities in Guangdong, with about 197,000 rooms. In 2025, Guangdong received 960 million tourist visits and generated 1.24 trillion yuan in tourism spending, with 90.308 million inbound visits.

  4. Pinchain Tourism

    Beijing Releases 13 Outstanding Cultural Tourism Tech Innovation Cases and 14 Solutions

    On September 12, the 2026 Beijing Culture and Tourism Technology Innovation Outstanding Cases and Solutions release event was held at the Shougang Park during the CIFTIS. Through public solicitation, district recommendations and expert review, Beijing selected 13 outstanding cases and 14 outstanding solutions based on innovative applications of AI, big data, VR, AR and 5G in culture and tourism. Among them, the "Roaming Beijing Suburbs" smart platform connects scattered suburban cultural tourism resources; the CASBOT band robot pioneers human-machine collaborative performance; the Beijingfang digital experience space closes the loop from cultural experience to consumption; iFlytek AI transl…

  5. China Tourism News

    Nanning Garden Expo Park Opens Fifth Pink Muhly Flower Sea Festival

    On September 12, Nanning Garden Expo Park launched the fifth edition of its Pink Muhly Flower Sea Festival, with peak bloom running through October 11. Centered on 31,000 square meters of pink muhly grass, the event sets up flower sea, flower border, fairy tale and rest zones, plus 16 photo installations including a flower-sea arch bridge, mirror and wishing bells. On weekends and holidays, a Wizard of Oz-themed NPC performance and interaction will be staged, and sika deer and pet goats will make irregular close-contact appearances; folk singers will perform during the Mid-Autumn and National Day holidays. The park also offers one-day study camps covering autumn flower viewing, nature educa…

  6. China Tourism News

    China's 15th Five-Year Tourism Plan Strengthens Standards and Governance

    China's 15th Five-Year Plan for Building a Tourism Power explicitly calls for strengthening standards leadership, focusing on key links, priority areas and emerging business forms in tourism, accelerating national standard development and revision, strengthening implementation evaluation, promoting domestic and international standardization coordination, and actively participating in international tourism standard setting. The article proposes improving the standards system architecture with mandatory national standards, recommended national and industry standards, local standards, group standards and enterprise standards; optimizing standards supply for smart tourism, study tourism and tou…

  7. Pinchain Tourism

    New 3C Certification Rules for Power Banks Take Effect from April 2027

    China's State Administration for Market Regulation issued new 3C certification implementation rules for power banks in May this year, and certification bodies have issued the first 32 CCC certificates. Power banks certified under the old rules may be produced and sold until 31 March 2027; from 1 April 2027, all power banks sold ex-factory must be certified under the new rules. The new rules add the mandatory national standard Safety Technical Specifications for Portable Power Supplies as a certification basis, strengthen tests for compression, nail penetration and lithium plating, and require smart management, voltage regulation and abnormal-use disable functions.

  8. Amadeus Newsroom

    Amadeus delivers new hotel distribution capabilities with HyperGuest

    Amadeus announced two new hotel distribution capabilities, available through Amadeus Leisure Connect Plus and Amadeus Value Hotels, powered by a strategic connectivity with HyperGuest. Leisure Connect Plus helps travel sellers digitally manage and distribute their own private hotel agreements within the Amadeus Travel Platform, with a single connection accessing 150+ channel managers via real-time APIs to automate rate and availability updates. The HyperGuest connectivity adds 15,000 directly sourced independent properties to Amadeus Value Hotels and provides richer, more granular content including rate plan information, property attributes and optional services.

  9. Pinchain Tourism

    Pinchain Week 38: Tongcheng AI Products Debut, Fliggy Partners with Eastar Jet

    Pinchain Tourism released its Week 38, 2026 online travel highlights, aggregating multiple industry developments. Tongcheng Travel showcased four self-developed AI cultural tourism products at the 2026 China Culture and Tourism Industry Expo. Qunar data showed that this week's Mid-Autumn and National Day flight and hotel bookings rose 119% week on week, while searches for Mid-Autumn "moon-viewing flights" doubled year on year. Tuniu released its 2026 Mid-Autumn and National Day travel trend forecast, showing that outbound and long-haul domestic bookings and travel periods shifted notably earlier. On September 10, Fliggy and Eastar Jet signed a cooperation agreement in Hangzhou to deepen col…

  10. Agoda Newsroom

    Agoda Data: Malaysians Seek More Ways to Get Away at Year-End

    Agoda released Malaysia December accommodation search data showing Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Langkawi, Kota Kinabalu, Kuching and Malacca remain the six most-searched domestic destinations. Kuantan and Kuala Terengganu are gaining interest, Sibu entered the domestic top 20, and Johor Bahru and Port Dickson moved higher. Langkawi searches grew 58% year-on-year, Kuantan 111%, Malacca 82%, and Kuala Terengganu 114%, rising from 18th to 14th place.

  11. US BTS Statistical Releases

    June 2026 U.S. airline traffic down 1.4% year on year

    U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) data show U.S. airlines carried 87.5 million systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers in June 2026, down 1.4% year on year and 2.5% below the all-time June high of 89.7 million in 2024. Domestic passengers totalled 75.5 million and international 12 million. Seasonally adjusted, June enplanements fell 0.4% from May and 3.7% below the all-time high reached in June 2024. BTS notes the data may be revised and are statistical observations, not real-time passenger counts.

  12. European Commission Press Corner

    EU Commission approves €52 million Romanian State aid scheme

    The European Commission has approved a €52 million (RON 277 million) Romanian State aid scheme to support cattle farmers affected by increased fuel and fertiliser prices stemming from the Middle East crisis. Approved under the Middle East Crisis Temporary State Aid Framework (METSAF) adopted on 29 April 2026, the scheme will run until 31 December 2026 and provide direct grants of up to €50,000 per company. The Commission found the scheme necessary, appropriate and proportionate under EU State aid rules.

Sep 13Sun
  1. China Tourism News

    National Great Wall Protection Work Conference Held in Yanqing, Beijing

    On September 12, the National Great Wall Protection Work Conference was held in Yanqing, Beijing. Rao Quan, Vice Minister of Culture and Tourism and Director of the National Cultural Heritage Administration, attended and spoke; Beijing Vice Mayor Sima Hong delivered remarks; Qiao Yunfei, Deputy Director of the National Cultural Heritage Administration, chaired the meeting. The conference reviewed progress since the 18th CPC National Congress, analyzed problems and challenges, and required localities to follow the Great Wall Protection Master Plan: refine protection status, implement tiered protection, strengthen the "four haves" work, enhance systematic protection, deepen interpretation and…

  2. China Tourism News

    National Camping Conference and China Road Cycling Open Suixian Stage Conclude

    On September 13, the 2026 National Camping Conference and the third China Road Cycling Open (Suixian, Hubei stage), sponsored by Dahongshan, concluded in Suixian, bringing together more than 1,300 cyclists and 900-plus camping enthusiasts across an 82-km scenic route and the Dahongshan Zizaigu camp for an all-day sports-tourism integration experience. The race was the fifth stage of this year's China Road Cycling Open with multiple categories; the National Camping Conference featured outdoor gear exhibitions, camping experiences, mountain salons and specialty markets. Suixian added a "ticket stub economy" measure offering ticket and credential holders discounts at several A-level scenic are…

  3. China Tourism News

    CIFTIS Debuts a Wave of New Cultural Creative Products

    On September 10, at the 2026 China International Fair for Trade in Services in Shougang Park, a large batch of debut cultural creative products appeared in Hall 7's culture and tourism services exhibition and Hall 9's culture and tourism consumption area, turning historical IP, industrial heritage and natural elements into brooches, ornaments and daily goods. The National Botanical Garden brought nine series and more than 100 classic items plus 56 debut products; Shougang Cultural Creative presented over 50 products including quicksand glow fridge magnets, movable industrial-element magnets, steel microstructure silk scarves and a Shougang-Dingyao co-branded coffee cup; the "Beijing Gifts"…

  4. Pinchain Tourism

    2026 China Summer Tourism Market Insight Report Released

    On September 12, at the 2026 China International Fair for Trade in Services results release hall, the event "New Momentum for Culture and Tourism, New Consumption Trends — 2026 China Summer Tourism Market Research Release" was held. The 2026 China Summer Tourism Market Insight Report, co-authored by the China Media Group Research Institute, the Communication Working Committee of the China Tourism Association and the China Tourism Group Research Institute, was officially released and simultaneously launched on multiple platforms with Ctrip, Tongcheng Travel, Meituan, Douyin Life Services and Xiaohongshu. The roughly 13,000-character report analyzes market size, customer structure, consumptio…

  5. China Tourism News

    China-Foreign Media Hubei Tour Launches in Wuhan, Spotlighting "Zhiyin Hubei"

    On September 13, the "New Era · Discover China · Seeking Zhiyin in Hubei" China-Foreign Media Hubei Tour launched in Wuhan, with representatives of 100 Chinese and foreign mainstream media and domestic and overseas social media gathering by East Lake. Guided by the Hubei Provincial Publicity Department and co-hosted by the Hubei Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, Xinhua News Agency's News Information Center and Xinhua's Hubei bureau, the tour runs through September 17, with media teams visiting Wuhan, Xiangyang and other places. A "Jingchu Intangible Cultural Heritage Treasures" display area and a Hubei regional public brand product tasting area featured landmark products such as…

Sep 11Fri
  1. European Commission Press Corner

    EU Commissioner Visits Moldova as Humanitarian Aid Shifts to Long-Term Inclusion

    EU Commissioner Lahbib made her first visit to Moldova, noting the country has taken in more than two million people since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and still hosts around 140,000 Ukrainian refugees. The EU has provided over €93 million in humanitarian aid since 2022, but with the Refugee Response Plan ending this year, support is shifting from emergency relief to long-term inclusion in national systems. Moldova also deployed around 50 firefighters to Greece and hosted Ukraine's aerial firefighting capacities.

  2. Skift Feed

    Dorchester Collection Takes a Stand Against the Flattening of Luxury

    Skift analyzes Dorchester Collection's market opportunity amid the flattening of luxury hospitality. The piece notes that iconic properties such as The Dorchester in London, Hôtel Plaza Athénée in Paris and The Beverly Hills Hotel in L.A. carry historical weight, and the challenge is to tighten and refine the basics without taking judgment away from the people who make each property worth returning to. The author uses London barbershop Truefitt & Hill as an analogy, arguing classic luxury's appeal lies in ritual and dependability rather than constant reinvention.

  3. Skift Feed

    Accor CEO: Data Is Essential, but Instinct Matters Most

    A Skift Global Forum preview profiles Accor CEO Sébastien Bazin's decision rule. Bazin, who has led Accor since 2013, says he starts with his gut, then his heart, then his brain, and that data should nourish instinct rather than replace it. He will speak at Skift Global Forum on September 22–24, 2026, explaining how that rule holds across 45-plus brands and 5,800 hotels and resorts, and where he draws the line between technology and the human side of hospitality.

  4. Hotel Dive Feed

    Marriott Deepens Corporate Hotel Distribution with Spotnana Direct Integration

    Marriott International expanded its partnership with cloud-based travel technology provider Spotnana through a new direct integration designed to transform how corporate travelers shop for, book and manage hotel stays. Spotnana will connect directly with Marriott's central reservation system, offering real-time rates and inventory, up-to-date room and amenity details, and the ability for travelers to modify or cancel bookings within the Spotnana platform. Corporate negotiated rates are also bookable. Marriott says Spotnana is the first corporate booking technology company to deliver verified loyalty linking with Marriott Bonvoy.

  5. Skift Feed

    Skift Travel Health Index: Middle East Recovery Stalls Again

    The Skift Travel Health Index stood at 99 in July, down 1% year-on-year. The Middle East and Africa fell back to 94 in July after recovering to the benchmark level of 100 in June. Skift attributes the reversal to renewed security concerns, travel advisories and flight suspensions, which weakened traveler confidence and made it difficult to convert interest into bookings. Vacation rentals was the only sector in the region to perform above the benchmark, gaining 14% year-on-year. Skift also reported this week on the potential lost year for Gulf tourism.

  6. BCD Travel RSS

    Cathay Pacific Intermodal Links Greater Bay Area Business and MICE Travel

    BCD Travel highlights Cathay Pacific's Direct Air+Sea and Direct Air+Land intermodal solutions, which allow travelers to move seamlessly between Hong Kong International Airport and key Greater Bay Area cities including Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai and Macao through a single connected journey. The Canton Fair venue, the China Import and Export Fair Complex, is easily accessible via Cathay Pacific's Direct Air+Sea service, which includes a codeshare ferry connection to Pazhou Ferry Port directly opposite the venue. Hong Kong, as an international MICE hub, provides a base for linking business events with trade opportunities such as the Canton Fair.

  7. BCD Travel RSS

    Cathay Pacific at 80: Connecting Hong Kong to Over 100 Destinations

    BCD Travel recounts Cathay Pacific's 80-year history. Founded in Hong Kong in 1946 by former wartime pilots Roy Farrell and Sydney de Kantzow with a single Douglas DC-3 aircraft, "Betsy," the airline bought its first Convair 880 in 1962, with jet aircraft accelerating network expansion. Today Cathay connects customers to more than 100 destinations worldwide across the Chinese Mainland, Asia, Europe, North America, the Middle East and the Southwest Pacific. Cathay also unveiled the Aria Suite business class cabin and partnered with the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority on an 80th anniversary livery.

  8. Skift Feed

    Skift Creator Summit 2026 Confirms Speaker Lineup

    Skift announced the confirmed speaker lineup for its 2026 Creator Summit. Presented by Meta, the summit is a closed-door working session on September 22 for people who own an outcome rather than an opinion. Speakers include Virgin Voyages CMO Nathan Rosenberg, IHG Hotels & Resorts SVP Global Brands Connor Smith, Fora Co-Founder Evan Frank, Expedia Group Senior Director Creators & Social Mallory Kuenzi, Matador Network and GuideGeek CEO Ross Borden, Meta Head of Industry for Travel, Auto & Experiences Sanjay Bhatia, CrowdRiff CEO Dan Holowack and travel journalist Oneika Raymond.

  9. European Commission Press Corner

    European Commission Approves €6.1 Billion for Ukraine Air and Missile Defence

    The European Commission has approved an additional €6.1 billion for Ukraine to procure defence products in air and missile defence, ammunition, drones and electronic warfare. Funded under the €90 billion Ukraine Support Loan, the package includes five derogations from standard eligibility conditions, enabling Ukraine to purchase PAC-3 missiles for Patriot systems, including via the NATO-coordinated PURL mechanism. The funding aims to strengthen Ukraine's capacity to withstand continued Russian ballistic missile and drone strikes while reinforcing Europe's own defence.

  10. Skift Feed

    25 Years After 9/11: Travel Ease and the Identity Divide

    A Skift article reflects on 25 years of travel changes since 9/11, noting that surface-level changes like airport security are less significant than the deeper shift in the role of identity in travel. The industry has become highly efficient at making trips easier to search, buy and navigate, while governments have become more sophisticated at deciding who gets to travel. For some travellers the journey is more seamless than ever; for others, friction begins well before the airport.

  11. Meadin Research

    August 2026 China County and District Tourism Communication Report

    Meadin Research released the August 2026 China county and district tourism communication report. In August, the national summer tourism market remained strong, with county trips, summer retreats, study tours and inbound tourism driving growth. Nine government departments issued opinions to promote integrated development of commerce, agriculture, culture, tourism and sports, accelerating policy benefits to counties. The report publishes top 100 lists for county and district tourism communication and analyses four index dimensions: mainstream, mass, industry and operations.

  12. Web in Travel

    Letter from the Cotswolds: Tension Between Overtourism and Destination Building

    A Web in Travel article explores overtourism in the Cotswolds. Castle Combe receives about 150,000 visitors annually, with tensions between visitors and residents flaring in summer. Visit Wiltshire promotes the Great West Way route to disperse tourists across 500 miles. Meanwhile, a US investor has bought 15 properties in Malmesbury to build a destination resort, potentially creating new overtourism pressure.

  13. European Commission Press Corner

    European Commission to Present Circular Economy Act

    European Commissioner Roswall announced at an event in Avesta, Sweden, that the Circular Economy Act will be presented later this year. The Act aims to simplify the regulatory framework and remove single market barriers, particularly differing definitions of waste. Currently, approval to transport electronic waste between Member States can take 90 to 180 days. The Act will also strengthen secondary raw material markets and reduce dependency on critical raw material imports.

  14. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur Outlines Scalable Expense Management for Business Growth

    SAP Concur published an article describing how its travel, expense, and invoice management platform scales with business growth. It notes that expansion—new employees, new markets, multiple currencies, new regulatory requirements, and M&A entities—can quickly overwhelm finance infrastructure built for a simpler time, leading to inconsistent policy enforcement and reduced spend visibility. Concur addresses these challenges through multi-entity architecture, multi-currency support, embedded policy enforcement, real-time spend visibility, faster onboarding of users and entities, and integrations with ERP, HR, and finance systems. An FAQ section defines scalable expense management and confirms…

  15. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur Positions Real-Time Travel Spend Reporting

    SAP Concur published an article outlining its travel spend reporting capabilities, arguing that consolidating booking, expense, and approval into one platform creates a real-time, single source of truth. The article cites common pain points: data scattered across booking platforms, card statements, expense reports, and inboxes; backward-looking reporting; hard-to-verify policy compliance; underused negotiated rates; and unreliable budget forecasting. SAP Concur says its approach embeds policy rules at booking, automates data capture, and produces connected reports to help finance teams improve compliance, strengthen supplier negotiations, and improve budget management.

  16. European Commission Press Corner

    EU-Ukraine Drone Alliance Holds First Board Meeting

    The EU-Ukraine Drone Alliance held its first board meeting in Brussels with 18 founding members, including nine EU companies and nine Ukrainian companies. The Alliance aims to accelerate development and production of next-generation drone and counter-drone systems. Ukraine produced over 4 million drones in 2025 and expects 10 million in 2026. Commissioner Kubilius stressed the need for design cycles measured in weeks and rapid scaling capacity.

  17. European Commission Press Corner

    European Commission Strengthens Online Safety for Children

    Executive Vice-President Virkkunen stated at a Dublin conference that the EU is strengthening online protection for children through the Digital Services Act (DSA) and AI Act. 97% of minors in the EU go online daily, and teenagers aged 13-18 spend an average of 4.5 hours on screens per day. The Commission has opened investigations into platforms including X, Shein and Snapchat, and issued 10 preliminary findings.

  18. Business Travel News

    Gant Launches AI Assistant in Self-Service Platform

    Travel management company Gant Travel Management has added an AI assistant to Gant360, the self-service platform it launched last month as a single point for travelers to access trip information, profiles, invoices, disruption information and trip support. The assistant supports conversational self-service tasks such as searching and booking travel and managing reservations, applying company policy and the traveler's profile. Gant says testing showed the assistant could handle a flight booking from search to completion in under five minutes. Through Gant's membership in American Express Global Business Travel's GBT network, joined earlier this year, Gant360 has access to content from more t…

  19. Business Travel News

    Grasp Promotes Quattlebaum, Hires Emburse's Duenholter

    Data management provider Grasp Technologies announced the promotion of Tina Quattlebaum to chief customer officer and the hiring of former Emburse executive Nick Duenholter as VP of commercial growth and partnerships. Quattlebaum, formerly Pfizer's director of global travel and card operations, joined Grasp in August 2024. Duenholter will help clients use travel and expense data to improve visibility, performance and decision-making.

  20. Business Travel News

    TSA Returns Gateside Access for Non-Travelers

    The U.S. Transportation Security Administration has brought back gateside access for select non-traveling individuals under a program called Gateside by TSA PreCheck. Thirteen airports currently participate, with more in the pipeline. TSA PreCheck members and members of other programs with Known Traveler Numbers, such as Global Entry, are eligible for the free passes, which are applied for through a login.gov account at least one day and no more than three days before the needed pass. If approved, the individual must bring an acceptable form of ID to the TSA PreCheck lane. Participating airports include Mesa, Ariz.; Columbus, Ohio; Dallas Fort Worth; Detroit; Wichita; Indianapolis; Las Vega…

  22. China Tourism News

    Beijing Plan Promotes Digital-Intelligent Integration of Culture, Commerce, Tourism, Sports and Exh…

    The Beijing municipal government recently issued the Digital Economy Development Plan for Beijing's 15th Five-Year Plan period, explicitly promoting digital-intelligent integration of culture, commerce, tourism, sports and exhibitions; digital collection and labeling of cultural resources; resource libraries including smart libraries, digital museums, digital art galleries and digital intangible-heritage archives; new formats such as 'beyond-venue' performances, immersive exhibitions and virtual-real integrated guided tours and shopping; and AI application in major sports events and training. A special column deploys the digital audiovisual 'beyond-venue' promotion project, proposing to upg…

  23. China Tourism News

    Transport-Culture Tourism Integration Becomes New Growth Pole for China's Inland Shipping

    Ding Li, secretary-general of the China Ports and Harbours Association, said on the 9th at a special forum of the Inland Shipping High-Quality Development Forum (2026) in Wuhan that China's premium waterway tourism passenger route system has basically taken shape, with transport-culture tourism integration becoming a new growth pole for inland shipping. China's inland passenger volume reached 130 million in 2025, with Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Hunan ranking top three. Regions are building waterway IPs around the Yangtze, Pearl River, Beijing-Hangzhou Canal and Min River, launching integrated products combining cruises, night tours, study travel, intangible heritage and waterfront consumption, a…