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The provisional figure for visitor arrivals to Hong Kong in April was 4,125, a drop of nearly 100 percent from the same time last year, the Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) said Friday.
The European Commission offered a tourism and transport package on Wednesday, aiming to provide guidance for the European Union (EU) member states to gradually lift the internal travel restriction and reopen tourism, two months after strict measures were introduced to contain COVID-19.
All passengers planning to take Air China's Moscow-Beijing flights are required to receive nucleic acid testing from one of 24 designated institutions, according to the Chinese embassy in Russia.
Shanghai Disneyland officially reopened on Monday, becoming the first Walt Disney theme park worldwide to welcome guests again following novel coronavirus-related closures.
An air freighter carrying 9.3 metric tons of medical supplies took off from Shijiazhuang Zhengding International Airport in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, on Friday and arrived at Frankfurt Airport in Germany the next day, kicking off a regular air freight route from the province to European countries.
The Shanghai Disneyland theme park reopened to visitors with controlled capacity on Monday, after the COVID-19 epidemic in China became more subdued.
China is currently on its way to eradicate poverty in rural areas by the end of 2020. Of the various methods to achieve it, developing rural tourism has proved to be quite effective in driving the regional economy and improving rural livelihoods. And Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwest China is no exception.
China's Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, will welcome more visitors from next Tuesday as its daily cap on visitor numbers will increase from 5,000 to 8,000, according to a newly released notice.
Construction of a river through Universal Beijing Resort, a major theme park scheduled to open in May next year, will be completed in November, according to the municipal government on Thursday.
China beefed up COVID-19 control measures during the May Day holiday amid the country's resolute efforts to prevent the epidemic from rebounding, said an official from the National Health Commission (NHC).
Shanghai Disneyland has sold out all tickets for May 11, the day it is scheduled to reopen following a three-and-a-half-month closure due to the novel coronavirus outbreak, the theme park announced on Friday.
Chinese are getting used to the idea of "no visits without reservations" for visiting scenic spots amid the battle against coronavirus epidemic, a Ministry of Culture and Tourism official said Friday.
A full moon is pictured at the advance camp of Mount Qomolangma, at an altitude of 6,500 meters, in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region on May 7, 2020.
Shanghai Disney Resort began selling tickets online Friday for its upcoming reopening on May 11 after closing on Jan. 25 due to the novel coronavirus.
China saw its passenger trips top 121 million during the five-day May Day holiday that ended Tuesday.
China handled a total of 121 million passenger trips during the five-day May Day holiday, which ended on Tuesday, according to the Ministry of Transport on Thursday.
China's railway network witnessed a rebound of passengers during the May Day holiday as the novel coronavirus outbreak eased its grip nationwide, according to the country's top railway operator.
Shanghai Disneyland is set to become the first Walt Disney Co theme park to reopen after novel coronavirus-related closure as China embarks on a steady path to normalcy in daily life and business activity.
China will further support small and medium-sized airports in remote regions and regions difficult to reach by land, aiming to improve all people's travel conditions, according to the latest policy.
Major parks in Beijing received 950,000 visitors during the five-day May Day holiday which ended Tuesday, according to the Beijing Municipal Administration Center of Parks.
Park visitors during the recent May 1 to 5 holiday surged back to more than half the number in same period in coronavirus-free 2019, the Beijing Gardening and Greening Bureau said on Tuesday.
Shanghai Disney Resort announced Wednesday that the Shanghai Disneyland theme park will reopen to the public on May 11.
Making salt by evaporating brine in the sun dates back to the Tang Dynasty(618-907 AD) along the Lancang River in Mangkam County, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. The traditional techniques of airing salt were passed down and preserved at the salt pans in the county.
Disney will reopen its Shanghai theme park on May 11, the company said during an earnings conference call on Tuesday. The park has been closed since January 25.
The May Day holiday that ended on Tuesday produced strong signs of recovery for the tourism sector, which has been buffeted by the novel coronavirus outbreak.
Cyclists and pedestrians traverse a bridge at East Lake on Sunday in Wuhan, Hubei province, the hardest-hit region from the COVID-19 pandemic in China.In the province's capital Wuhan, around 178,000 visits were made at the city's 21 A-level tourist attractions on Saturday, down 58 percent from a year earlier, the bureau said.
Photo taken on April 29, 2020 shows the scenery of Siling Lake in Naqu City, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. The frozen surface of the plateau lake in Tibet is thawing with temperature rising up.
Although travel volume has been gradually rebounding, the expected daily figure is only 34.8 percent of last year's daily passenger trip volume, said Wu Chungeng, the ministry's spokesman.
The online travel agency platform Qunar.com recorded search volume of its air tickets departing Beijing jump 15 times compared to the previous hour in less than half an hour after it was announced on Wednesday that Beijing will lower its response level of public health emergency from level 1 to level 2 from Thursday 00:00, Securities Daily reported.
As the Labor Day week approaches, the domestic tourism sector is gearing up to restart operations. But with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the National Health Commission jointly issuing a statement, on April 13, stressing that epidemic prevention and control measures be strictly followed at tourist sites and the number of visitors be restricted, the answer could lie in "cloud tourism".
