Sanzi, a special kind of fried Uygur food, is eye-catching at the International Tourism and Food Festival in Aksu city of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, May 15, 2009. The festival was opened in Aksu on Friday, displaying foods from at home and abroad

The waitresses place the table for food show at...

News from the 85th session of the World Tourism Organization Executive Council held in Bamako, Mali, is that China will host the World Tourism Day in 2010.

The theme of the 2010 World Tourism Day will be tourism and biological diversity. The session reviewed and assessed the general program of UNWTO’s work from 2008 to 2009, and determined the budget and general program for the year 2010 to 2011. In addition, the session recommended that Taleb Rifai be secretary-general for the four-year-period starting Ja...

Officials in Beichuan county, Sichuan province, are most concerned with restoring livelihoods.

    Shengli village in Leigu town has become the country’s biggest resettlement area for earthquake survivors. With plank houses occupying farms in some 30 villages, planting crops no longer offers a feasible source of income for the locals.

    "Once we’ve are done with building houses, we should focus on tourism ," says village head Xi Shuyou.

    Xi used ...

Get ready music fans, Zhangjiajie is hosting the 2009 Zhangjiajie International Country Music Week from May 14-18, as the first Asian host for the internationally well-known country music fest.

Stage is being set to showcase talents of 24 country music bands from 18 countries and regions across the world, and eight d...

(Xinhua) -- "Soul of Shaolin," an inaugural "China on Broadway" production, was awarded a nomination for the Drama Desk Awards in the category of Unique Theatrical Experience, Xinhua learned Friday.

    The Drama Desk Award, created in 1955, is an award honoring shows produced on Broadway, off-Broadway, off-off-Broadway, and for legitimate not-for-profit theaters.

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BEIJING, May 4 -- It used to be the "inferior corner," a place that was home to low-income people. But now Caojiadu is a very different area. So overseas photographers are engaged in a project to capture the spirit of the area. Wang Jie goes close up.

    Caojiadu, on the southeastern side of Suzhou Creek, used to be called xiazhijiao (literally "inferior corner") and was far from the cit...

As countries around the world look for the right balance between keeping their citizens safe from the swine flu and avoiding undue alarm, international travelers are facing two issues.

The first and more obvious is personal safety: is this a time to stay home and not risk any unnecessary travel, particularly to Mexico? The second is t...

IN preparation for the Olympic Games later this summer in Beijing, the Chinese government has released an official list of suggested English translations for Chinese dishes, a road map through idiosyncratic nomenclature that officials fear will spook or confuse thousands of tourists.

“Sometimes it’s scary how they translate the names,” said Frank Wong, an owner of Trey Yuen, a we...

The 2009 international kite-flying festival will be held in Yinchuan, capital city of northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region between April 30 and May 10.

Kite lovers from more than 10 countries, including South Korea and Germany, will attend the event. Kite-flying teams from Taiyuan, Beijing, Nanjing and other cities of China will also take part in the competition and demon...

Tourists pose for photos at the Namco Lake, the highest lake of the world at 4,718 meters above sea level, in Damxung County, southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, April 25, 2009. Increasing number of tourists visit the Namco Lake, one of the three holy lakes in the region, as the weather becomes warmer. (Xinhua/Zhang Quan)

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