Qingming Festival (also known as Pure Brightness Festival or Tomb-sweeping Day) is a Chinese festival which celebrates the beginning of the rising temperatures and increased rainfall synonymous with spring. The festival indicates the beginning of the season for agriculture, as the climate becomes better for ploughing and sowing seeds. However, the festival also has a […]
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Last month, we wrote about the Top Five Challenges faced by UK tourism brands in accessing the Chinese travel market. Here, we look at the first of those challenges; Generating Results with the Chinese Travel Trade When I talk to marketing managers on their return from events or sales missions where they have met with Chinese
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Our guest blog this month comes from Csaba Toth MA, MSc, FCMI, Managing Partner of ICQ Consulting and an expert in International Culture. With the globalisation of world business, China has become an appealing market for foreign investors. The problem of cross-cultural management and communication arise as the cooperation between China and its culturally different
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This month, our team in Beijing organised and hosted a very unusual media workshop for 10 of Beijing’s top travel journalists to introduce them to the cities of Leeds, Bradford and Huddersfield and the surrounding regions of West Yorkshire. We like to do things a bit differently at Guanxi so our Beijing Director, Vivienne, invited the media
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The benefits of doing business with China are plentiful and the opportunities for tourism vast. You will have heard the facts and figures about China being the largest travel source market in the world and the ever-expanding affluent middle class, hell-bent on having new experiences, visiting exciting destinations and spending their holiday money on posh perfume and
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