Ministry of Culture and Tourism

Chinese tourists made a total of 1.46 billion domestic trips in the January-June period, 22.2 per cent lower than the previous year

Chinese tourists made around 230 million trips over the extended May Day holiday as domestic travel surpassed pre-coronavirus pandemic levels

Turkey, in its endeavour to provide further momentum to its safe tourism programme started full-fledged vaccination of tourism employees

Last week’s announcement that Turkey is one of the 73 countries which will allow British tourists to visit and not require them to quarantine upon their return to the UK, came as welcome news to Turkey and many holiday makers. However, as further reassurance of Turkey’s commitment to the health and safety of their citizens […]

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism in Turkey has announced a safe tourism certification programme, launched to coincide with the start of the 2020 summer season. Run in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the programme covers a broad range of safety measures. The certificate validates the execution of high levels of health and […]

Millions of Chinese people kept their spending down during the first major holiday in China since the coronavirus outbreak. During the May Day holiday, also known as Labour Day holiday, that ran from 1-5 May this year, the country recorded 115 million tourist trips domestically, raking in tourism revenue of RMB 47.56 billion (USD 6.79 […]

The Chinese mainland had 38,433 travel agencies at the end of September 2019, according to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The travel agencies received 4.86 million overseas tourists traveling to the mainland in the third quarter, the ministry said in a report. The highest number of inbound tourists came from Hong Kong, Taiwan, South […]

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism recently announced at its fourth quarter press conference that 560,000 cultural enterprises in China generated CNY 6218.7 billion (USD 890 billion) culture and tourism revenues in the first three quarters, 7.6% more than last year. In the first nine months of this year, about 4.597 billion domestic trips were […]

The number of tourists to China saw a steady growth this year and the number of inbound trips in the first three quarters this year stood at 108.76 million, up 4.7% from the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The report compiled data from a travel product analysis by […]

Chinese mainland tourists made a total of nearly 31 million outbound trips through tour packages organised by travel agencies in the first half of 2019, said a report unveiled by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China. Thailand topped the list of the 10 most popular destinations with the highest number of trips by […]

China will ramp up its policy support for Shanghai, the nation’s first pilot zone for cruise tourism, to attract more international partners and visitors. The eastern city’s cruise port will kick off China’s first duty-free store that is open for people entering the country. The Ministry of Culture and Tourism gave the green light to […]