tourism

Jolyon Bulley, CEO of IHG Greater China, shares his views on changing trends in the China hospitality industry post-Covid-19. Headquartered in Denham, UK, IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group) is one of the world’s leading hotel companies with a broad portfolio of brands including Six Senses, Regent, InterContinental, Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn, and Holiday Inn Express. While nobody can escape the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic, the tourism and hospitality industry was …

A new report by Cambridge Econometrics commissioned by CBBC shows that nearly 150,000 jobs depend on links with China The UK’s growing economic ties with China now support well over 100,000 British jobs across sectors from tourism to electronics and engineering, according to a new study by Cambridge Econometrics (CE) released on Tuesday. In its report, CE estimates that a combination of the UK’s burgeoning trade with China, allied to …

China has used the power of its tourism as a tool to punish nations that offend the Party, so could the US be next, asks Tom Pattinson The world has seen a huge bump in global tourism spending in recent years with the US Travel Associate stating that worldwide growth in tourism was 8 percent in 2017. Britain’s 2016 referendum result may have been another factor that led to a …

Manuel Alvarez, the new incoming Director, China and North East Asia for VisitBritain explains the special place that the UK has for many Chinese people Please tell us about your career before taking on this role? I joined VisitBritain from British Airways, where I’d been managing its commercial arm in South Korea. I also coordinated the launch of its commercial distribution in Iran, working with the team in marketing and …

No longer is it all about package tourists being bused from town to town but increasingly Chinese tourists want more experiences from their trips to the UK, writes Ben Clements It’s impossible to go punting in Cambridge or whisky tasting in Scotland without bumping into Chinese tourists on the trail of good old British authenticity. More languages are spoken in London than any other capital city and today you are …