Brief: Travel guides Lonely Planet and Culture Trip are working together to sell advertising across their platforms as the tourism industry recovers from the coronavirus pandemic. Their Travel Reborn marketing partnership will give advertisers access to a combined audience of more than 100 million unique users and 20 million social […]
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Xi’s Japan trip unlikely this year as US-China tensions burn
TOKYO/BEIJING — The Japanese government has decided to halt preparations for a state visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping for the foreseeable future, all but confirming that the trip will not happen this year as originally planned. Japan had regarded Xi’s visit as a symbol for restoring bilateral relations. It […]
Xi eyes South Korea as possible first post-pandemic trip in 2020
SEOUL — Chinese President Xi Jinping plans to visit Seoul by the end of the year as planned, he told South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in on Wednesday, in what could be his first trip overseas since the coronavirus outbreak began. The two leaders agreed over a roughly 30-minute phone conference to start preparations […]