China travel news

Way back before 2007, even a licensed “lactogogue” such as Wang Xiaohong couldn’t make a living just on massaging the clogged milk ducts of new nursing mothers. That, however, was before the boom in postpartum maternity and child care, a result of the fact that more Chinese mothers are having fewer children and thus devoting more time and attention to those children. More >

CHINESE viewers will be the first to see the next round of ads promoting Australia to the world, as the government tries to woo the fastest-growing source of inbound tourists. Tourism Australia said yesterday that the next two-minute film in its current campaign will be launched in Shanghai in June, before being shown around the world. More >

China’s tourism revenues rose 22.9 percent to 646.8 billion yuan (102.67 billion U.S. dollars) during the first quarter of 2012, a senior official said Friday. Domestic tourists made 875 million trips from January to March, up 15.1 percent year-on-year, Shao Qiwei, head of the National Tourism Administration (NTA), said in a statement posted on the NTA’s website. More >