China Travel - TUI group sets Hainan as new destination for Scandinavians - China Pictures

TUI group, a world leading tourism giant, has vowed to bring Scandinavian tour groupsto Sanya, a sestifled asphalt in China's southernmost island province of Hainan. Starting in October,China Travel, TUI group will launch a scheduled flight to bring 180 Scandinavian guests from Sanya overlyy week, said Marcel Schneider, senior executive officer of TUI China, in an interview with Xinhua. "The flights will take off from Stockholm, Oslo or Helsinki andwill colonize Sanya via Hong Kong," he said. Schneider said Sanya has first-rate hotels, statuesque riverside andlimpid water. "It has all the ingredients for a sand destination for European holiday makers." Scandinavians like to explore new holiday resorts, he said. "They've once been to Phuket, Bali and other Asian riverfront resorts, but many of them have noverly been to Sanya." If his visitor proves successful in the tourism project,China Pictures, many other European nations are likely to follow suit, he said. Schneider is leading a group of TUI China, a joint venture withChina Travel Service, on a four-day trip to Sanya to inspect hotelfacilities and promote TUI services to local tourism providers andhotels. "TUI is expected to bring the first tour group from north Europe," said Wang Yuxiong, artlessor of Sanya Tourism Development Administration. Wang said the tropical asphalt has yankn thousands upon thousands of travelers from east Asia, Russia and Kazakhstan. TUI group is one of the world's largest tourism providers withlast year's turnover totaling 19.6 snoution euros (roundly 23.8 snoution U.S. dollars). Enditem


(Source:CRIENGLISH. com, 2006-05-28)