Dublin’s Guinness Storehouse completes CTW Training

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On 29th October 2018
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The Guinness Storehouse in Dublin – Ireland’s most popular tourist attraction – has been certified as a CTW Chinese Tourist Welcome Quality Organisation after completing COTRI’s CTW Chinese Tourist Welcome Training programme as part of Fáilte Ireland’s campaign. Following a national campaign that has seen many high-profile businesses undertaking CTW training, the Guinness Storehouse has […]

Latest China Outbound Travel Pulse video: Key Opinion Leaders

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On 9th October 2018
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The fifteenth China Outbound Travel Pulse episode has been published on the COTRI website, as well as on the series’ dedicated YouTube channel. The video focuses on the topic of Chinese Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) and the role they play in the field of the Chinese outbound tourism market. As with other instalments in the […]

Latest China Outbound Travel Pulse video: Communicating Abroad

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On 18th September 2018
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The fourteenth China Outbound Travel Pulse episode has been published on the COTRI website, as well as on the series’ dedicated YouTube channel. The video focuses on the topic of communication-related issues regarding travel, as well as addressing the ever-growing number of options available to help solve any linguistic problems. As with other instalments in […]

Latest China Outbound Travel Pulse video: Summer Travel

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On 22nd August 2018
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The thirteenth China Outbound Travel Pulse episode has been published on the COTRI website, as well as on the series’ dedicated YouTube channel. The video focuses on the topic of travel during the summer months, exploring Chinese outbound tourists’ travel structures and motivations for taking overseas trips during the warmer summer months. As with other […]

Latest China Outbound Travel Pulse video: Travel Companions

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On 3rd August 2018
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The twelfth China Outbound Travel Pulse episode has been published on the COTRI website, as well as on the series’ dedicated YouTube channel. The video focuses on the topic of travel companions, discussing the different groupings in which Chinese tourists assemble in when taking overseas trips. This covers multi-family groups, graduation strips and Valentine’s getaways, […]

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On 18th June 2018
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Flight booking data provided by ForwardKeys has disclosed the top five European destinations among Chinese travellers for the months of July and August 2018. The UK has been revealed as the number one summer destination among the Chinese market, even though it suffered a 1.1% decline in year-on-year bookings. Second-placed France, however, witnessed a remarkable […]

Proposed changes to Schengen Visa policy could prove to be a boon for Chinese travellers to Europe

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On 28th March 2018
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Speaking in Brussels on March 14, European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos outlined the Commission’s new proposals surrounding visa policy in the Schengen Area. While the recommended changes to the Visa Code – which include measures to quicken the repatriation of unauthorised migrants and limit visas for countries refusing their return – […]

Chinese outbound tourism figures continuing to grow at a healthy rate

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On 7th March 2018
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The China Tourism Academy (CTA), a department of the China National Tourism Administration (CNTA), and leading Chinese online travel agency Ctrip have released their ‘2017 China Outbound Tourism Travel Report’ covering their statistical outlook for the whole of last year. The report concluded that the annual total of outbound trips made by Chinese passport holders […]

New episode of China Outbound Travel Pulse: Chinese New Year

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On 8th February 2018
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The sixth episode of the China Outbound Travel Pulse series has just been published on the COTRI website, as well as on the series YouTube channel. In advance of the start of the year of the earth dog on February 16, 2018, the video discusses Chinese outbound travel trends within the context of the Chinese […]

New app launched allowing shoppers to buy overseas luxury goods directly from China

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On 29th January 2018
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ÔLAVIE, an app-based service allowing Chinese consumers to purchase luxury goods through personal shoppers in Europe and have them directly delivered to China, has been recently launched online. Calling itself “the first European luxury social commerce marketplace for Chinese consumers”, ÔLAVIE allows users to browse a Chinese language interface to pick out their purchases directly […]

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