China Travel as endeavors to arrange responsible tourism and contribute to sustainable development in those places we visit.
For example, we recommend our guests to stay at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Beijng who in 1989 was appointed "green" hotel, where the emphasis on recycling and energy conservation.
Another interesting example is The School House in the village of Mutianyu by the Great Wall, where they strive to serve local food, the local staff, has installed a shower rather than a bath etc.. Schoolhouse has been voted one of the top five hotels in China by the tour operator Wild China. They also received four "green" stars of Eco Hotels of the World, and was selected as Best HICAP Sustainable (sustainable) Community Development in Asia-Pacific in 2009.
We are always looking for partners who operate in a responsible manner and we are actively working to enter into agreements with several hotels in China and Asia with the same level of consciousness.
But responsible tourism involves not only "receive" or to use properly, but also give something back. We have therefore linked us to several projects where our travelers can contribute financially. We are also working to find new places where you can contribute with practical efforts as part of the journey. Interested? We welcome the ideas and suggestions, please contact Anne Krogh anne.krogh@kinareiser.no.
In China, we have established a Girl Fund to assist poor girls to an education. In poor areas, it is the girls who first taken out of school, and in the small town of Qixian has for several years supported the poorest families so that the girls have been able to go to school. To date, six girls completed high school, and currently there are three to receiving support at school. One of the first girls now seem to qualify to go to university, and if she can do this hurdle, she will still get support! It is possible to give money to a particular girl, and then receive reports on how it goes with her.
In Mongolia, we are supporting the Norwegian pensioner Aase Sims his great project to help disadvantaged children and families in Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia see: Visit Aase Sims). Aase went to Mongolia for almost 20 years ago and has dedicated his life to helping the poorest among us, and by laying stone on stone she built up the school and an activity center. The last two years she has also managed to send two boys teams to participate in the Norway Cup soccer tournament! Our guests can visit Mongolia Aase and see for themselves what she has built. This must be arranged in advance, and it can also contributions given directly on site.
In Myanmar (Burma), we support the operation of an orphanage for boys between 4 and 16 years in Yangon, where many of the children have lost their parents, among others. a. AIDS. The orphanage is located adjacent to a small Buddhist monastery in the capital, and the monks have each day out and begging to get money for food, clothing and schooling for children. The globetrotter Arild Molstad who met Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi few years ago supporting the project with £ 10,000, which China Tours as well will do. If you want to support the orphanage, you can send your contributions to the account below.
Your contribution will be sent account 1140 45 37069; Please select the project you support, and do not forget to state your name and address. You may want to provide a lump sum or a fixed contribution per. month if you so choose.
Finally: All project contributions go directly to the recipient, China Travel as taking nothing in the administration or operation of the incoming funds, which is monitored by statsaut. auditor Wilhelm Forland.
Back then there was one hotel in the capital Beijing, foreigners were allowed to stay. If foreigners missing western goods were Friendlies business the only store in town that they could go to.
Today, foreigners can freely stay at all hotels in Beijing, and luxury hotels like Hilton and Fairmont characterizes the streets along with a myriad of cheaper tourist class hotels. Western goods are to be found anywhere in Beijing, either in cheap generic forms or expensive, genuine versions.
It is only in recent years that has really taken off in the Chinese tourism industry. Before the economic opening of China in the late 1970s the country was completely closed to the outside world. For most tourists, it was impossible to travel to China unless they belonged to a friendly association that China officially recognized.
Today urges the Chinese government foreign tourists to come to the country. Tourist attractions have almost always an English translation, although the translation at times can be quite bad.
Public transport in Beijing and Shanghai provide English-language service. Angliseringen of the cityscape happened shortly before the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and the World Expo in Shanghai 2010.Herudover had foreign tourists earlier pay more money to get to the tourist attractions. This practice has stopped, although street vendors often stop foreigners in the hope that the rich tourist will buy water, ice chips, or more than twice as much as it costs in stores.
These initiatives are helping to make life easier for the tourists, who may in the future be more willing to visit China. It gives money to the tourist industry, and perhaps more importantly, Foreign tourism can help to show a picture of China that not only are human rights abuses and repression of ethnic minorities.
The Chinese government is not blind to this. Along with foreign PR companies, the government has in recent years been keen to invite the foreign press corps on tours in China with all expenses paid. The past two months there have been three such invitations from Chinese tourism authorities to foreign correspondents in China.
However, it is not always easy to influence people's attitudes to a country just because they take a few weeks vacation to the country.
It says Karen Risager, professor in the Department of Cultural Encounters at Roskilde University.
Tourists are not the same, and they also come with different assumptions. A tourist who is focused on Chinese culture, will also focus on Chinese culture during their visit. As a tourist you move usually within a very limited part of society, both socially and geographically, says Karen Risager.
When a tourist has the money, it's hard to get more into what kind of a life, as the local people live. If you just think China's major cities, you get a distorted picture of the country.
Tourism has also left its mark on China. In a clothes market in Sanlitun, Beijing's most popular bar district, talking shop assistants far better English than most other Chinese. For they are accustomed to bargain with the Americans, Russians and Indians. But you should anyway be careful not to overestimate how much tourism can influence a country like China.
You see in Denmark, so characterizes international tourism to the country is not in violent degree our view of the world. Tourists will probably meet a variety of Chinese, but it is often a relatively superficial contact, says Karen Risager.
At the same time distinguishes people from China as a cultural country and China as a political power. It seems that the Chinese would like to promote an understanding of the world of China as a country with a rich cultural history. We see, among other things, as they open new museums and embarks with several archaeological sites.
According to the UN Tourism Organization, UNWTO, there were 55.7 million people from around the world who went to China on tourist stays in 2010, making China the world's third most popular destination for international tourists after France and the United States.
Tourism to China, however, unlike France rapidly growing. While France saw zero growth in the number of international tourists to the country, the number of international tourists to China by 9.4 percent from 50.9 million tourists to 55.7 million.
We are seeing a growing interest in traveling to China. We also see that people who have traveled in China, really want to go again, telling Line Danvad, Sales and Development Manager at FDM Travel, which has sold trips to China since 2006.
We see that many people choose to go to Beijing on a city break, while they get a variety of cultural experiences. China is not just the first place people choose if they want to beach holidays.
It is somewhat doubtful whether the increase in tourism comes mainly from Western tourists, or the figures reflects the fact that there are more tourists from the rest of Asia to China. According to the Chinese market research company Dete are the largest group of tourists from South Korea, followed by Japan and Russia. United States comes in at fourth place with just over two million tourists to China in 2010.
After all, what I see in the industry, the influx of foreign tourists from Western countries in decline. There will be many new tourists from Iran, Thailand, India and other neighboring countries. In this sense, enjoying Chinese Tourism enough from the growth around them, says Anders Elleman Kristensen, country manager in China for Albatros Travel.
from : http://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk
Countries are rated on a scale from 1 to 7, where 7 is the best and 1 the worst. The index is based on three indicators; national regulation, infrastructure and business environment, and human, cultural and natural resources.
Travel and tourism can be important for economic growth and development in each country. It created jobs in different industries, as well as more indirect development effects.
An example of this may be that the authorities of a region or country chooses to make improvements in infrastructure such as water and sewer, roads, electricity, telephone and public transport, to facilitate tourism. Such measures can also help to improve the inhabitants of the area's quality of life and improve the economy's growth potential.
Some places are tourist attractions of nature reserves or environmentally sensitive areas. Increased awareness of sustainable development among the local population in these areas is essential to ensure a future for further tourist industry in the area.
Some places make national regulation is less attractive to travel to a country. An example of this is complicated visa rules, which can make it difficult and time consuming for tourists and others to bring into the country. If very few tourists bear to go through visa procedures, it is less attractive to develop the travel and tourism in the country.
