According to figures released by the Xi'an Tourism Administration, the capital of Shaanxi province received more than 48 million tourists from home and abroad in the first 10 months of 2010, exceeding the full-year figure of 40 million for 2009.

Ctrip.com, China's largest online travel booking company, has established travel service centers in Hong Kong and Sanya in a bid to offer better service levels to its customers.

Taiwan plans to allow individual tourists from mainland China to travel to the region, possibly on February 17, 2011, the time of the annual Lantern Festival.

The consumer association of Jilin Province and the Macau Consumer Council have signed a cooperation agreement in Changchun to jointly protect consumers' rights and interests.

The municipal government of Chicheng in Heibei province has signed a memorandum of understanding with six districts in Beijing to jointly develop the tourism sector.

The Statistics and Census Service of the Macau Government has announced that the number of tourists in groups reached 489,000 in June 2010, which is 1.67 times more last year, when the H1N1 flu reduced the number of arrivals.