The Israeli channel 2 morning show recently featured an interview with an English speaking Chinese tour-guide who takes mainland Chinese groups to visit Israel. The short interview provides some insights into how the Chinese see Israel and offers some curious cross-cultural interactions.     Here’s the video : (Hebrew introduction) A: You’ve been to China? [...]

The Hong Kong Wetland Park is a bizarre combination of nature and museum concrete in a way that only Hong Kong can pull off successfully. Located at Tin Shui Wan, close to the HK Shenzhen border, far away from where most of the tourists visit in HK, and about an hour and a half (!) [...]

Visiting Tainan City and Tainan Country? If you have some time to explore, there are quite a few interesting things for you to see. Following is a list of suggested things to do with an outline for a visit itinerary. A word  of caution before I begin – while there’s alot to do I would [...]

Finding a decent accommodation in Hong Kong can be tricky, and I frequently get questions from friends and colleagues coming to Hong Kong and looking for a cheap and affordable budget accommodation. I’ll start off by recommendations I recently got from three different friends coming in to visit Hong Kong and wanting to stay on [...]

Following is a summary of the posts of my little sister’s visit to Hong Kong. Symphony of Lights @ Avenue of Stars in Tsim Sha Tsui Hong Kong Kowloon Park – Tsim Sha Tsui – Hong Kong Cheung Chau Island : Hong Kong’s Koh-Phi-phi Don Central Hong Kong’s HK Park and Victoria Peak Tram Nan [...]

Taiwan’s Tourism Bureau has recently announced "The Best Trip in the World" contest hoping for reaction similar to Australia’s “Best Job in the World". Seeing the still weak international interest in Kaohsiung’s World Games 2009 I have some doubts on how popular this would be, but any big project to attract more visitors to Taiwan [...]

In the time that I’ve been in Taiwan I’ve had the chance to travel to many gorgeous places in Taiwan. I believe Taiwan has alot to offer with special beauty, unique culture and style. It often is be a bit surprising to some of my friends and family given the general stereotype and just how [...]

Israel, as usual, is highly optimistic, and the Chinese tourists are the just what the sleepy tourism market in Israel needs to reinvent itself. Ynet has more on the issue with “The Chinese are coming” (The Hebrew article can be found here) : According to new agreement, Israel to be approved by Chinese government as [...]