Company News in 2008
Training Tour to the Yangtze River
Published: June 11, 2008
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| Fengdu Ghost City, Chongqing |
TravelChinaGuide sent a small group of company staff from Xi'an to Chongqing for a training tour to the Yangtze River. Their Yangtze cruise started on a Victoria fleet ship, The Victoria Empress, at 21:00, June 6, from Chaotianmen cruise terminal in Chongqing.
The sightseeing began the next morning with a shore landing and a visit to Fengdu Ghost City involving a mountain climbing or a cable-car ride. The highlight of the Yangtze River cruise came on the third day, as the ship sailed through the three gorges. After, there was a shift from the cruise ship to a float along Shennong Stream in Badong County. The stream rises on the southern slope of Shennongjia Nature Reserve. The cruise ship sailed through the Three Gorges ship lock at night. After a morning landing on the last day at the Three Gorges Dam Site on the last day, the group disembarked at Yichang.
A training group to Yangtze River is sent every year to allow company staff to obtain first-hand experience and collecting the latest Yangtze cruise information to assist in planning qualified services for our customers.
Spring Incentive Tour to Beijing
Published: May 20, 2008
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| Ready to Climb the Great Wall |
As a reward, TraveChinaGuide arranged a one-week incentive tour to Beijing for a group of company staff. The trip began on May 10. The group enjoyed some free time visiting the most famous places of interest in Beijing, including must see attractions like the Forbidden City, Badaling Great Wall, Temple of Heaven, Tiananmen Square. After exploring the boutique stores in the old hutong of Nanluoguxiang, the group had a rickshaw tour among the hutongs around the Shichahai area, dropping by the Prince Gong's Mansion which is close by. They also visited some special markets and shopping places, such as Wangfujing with a snack street and many shopping centers, Hongqiao Pearl Market packed with visitors buying souvenirs, Beijing Zoo, a clothes market for cheap T-shirts and Silk Street for handicrafts and bags.
Beijing has a convenient subway network allowing tourists to freely get around by metro. Despite of this, a lot of walking is involved to get around the attractions.
Click to see the itineraries of Beijing Tours.
Updated China Maps Online
Published: April 16, 2008
TravelChinaGuide has motified the page layout of China Maps and added an assortment of new maps to enrich our map gallery. At present, there are maps of more than fifty cities and some top attractions including the Great Wall, Yangtze River, Forbidden City, Jiuzhaigou and the Summer Palace. In addition, you can also find subway maps of Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Xi'an and Chongqing, China railway and highway maps, as well as maps of China's geography, agriculture, population, precipitation and so on.
TravelChinaGuide Having New Column Online: China Video
Published: January 12, 2008
TravelChinaGuide has a new column, China Video, to offer multifaceted video productions and allow visitors and registered members to upload their own videos about travel experiences in China. All videos are classified into major destinations, top attractions and popular themes, such as Shaolin Kung Fu, Chinese festivals, ethnic minorities and folk music. There are top videos and recommended videos are shown in the text of the main page. Apart from the category division on the left hand index, we also have a search bar allowing keyword searches for China videos.
The 2008 New Year Celebration and TravelChinaGuide 10th Anniversary Gala Staged
- Review the 10-year History, Pray for 2008 Good Days
Published: January 8, 2008
On the evening of January 4th 2008, a grand gala celebrating the 2008 Chinese New Year and commemorating the coming 10th anniversary of TravelChinaGuide (abbr. TCG hereinafter) was held in Xi'an Oriental Hotel. All of our staff including our chief managers, department directors and other employees such as our chefs and drivers participated in the gala.
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TCG staff enjoyed a sumptuous banquet before the well-pentertainment included a variety of brilliant performances performed, directed and even written by members of the staff. To welcome the New Year repared gala got under way with great ceremony. The and the coming 10th anniversary of our TCG website, we had been enthusiastically preparing for this gala for months.
Without doubt, the performances proved to be successful and excellent. The entertainment included dancing, singing, comic dialogues, a fashion show and poetry recitations. The dance performances are deserving of special mention, as they were truly fantastic. The colorful presentations ranged from an Indian dance, a hot American style dance and an exciting Spanish bullfight dance. Meanwhile, the comic dialogues had rich themes based as they were on Chinese historical or classical stories, such as Emperor Qin Shi Huang and the Assassin and the Peacocks Fly to the Southeast. The gala also had interactive sections including games, lucky draws and an interview with our employees.
Finally, the gala ended in a jubilant atmosphere and everyone felt extremely excited, as not only had we received fine performance awards or had gifts from the lucky draw but also because we had communicated with each other by sharing our artistic talents. This memorable event has done much to enhance the trust and spirit of the entire TravelChinaGuide staff. We are sure to become a still more cooperative, more vigorous and more powerful team able to provide more high-quality services for our honorable clients' travel in China.