Foreign visitors leave the Palace Museum in the Chinese capital, Beijing, on April 25, 2025. (WANG XIN / FOR CHINA DAILY) Travel agencies and tourism experts said they are bullish about the tourism market’s performance during the upcoming May Day holiday, with both domestic and outbound tourism visits projected to boom during the period. Their…
Hong Kong’s major arts hub has partnered with a bus operator to provide package ticket savings and improved transport services to promote local cultural tourism. The West Kowloon Cultural District Authority and Citybus on Thursday announced a new memorandum of understanding to explore additional collaboration opportunities, such as ticket packages for buses and museums, more…
BEIJING (AP) — It’s highly technical work in what looks more like a lab than a museum: A fragment of a glazed roof tile from Beijing’s Forbidden City is analyzed in a state-of-the-art X-ray diffraction machine that produces images, which are then projected onto computer screens. The fragment being examined has a dark area on…
Hong Kong’s arts hub is aiming to expand exchanges with Middle Eastern countries, while its annual deficit has narrowed by 20 per cent year on year to HK$578 million (US$74.3 million). Betty Fung Ching Suk-yee, the CEO of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, said on Thursday the construction of a music centre would be…