Guangdong is considering free visas to foreigners who arrive in Hong Kong and Macao to visit all cities in the province. The move aims to attract more foreign tourists to travel in the southern ...

Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao have announced plans to hold a joint informational conference on tourism to strengthen the ties between the three sides and attract more tourists.

Mr Tung said about 1.5 million people from eight cities in Guangdong had obtained the permits to visit Hong Kong as individual travellers since the restrictions were lifted in July.

A special tourism exchange and fair designed to boost rural tourism and the rural economy was held in Yunfu, a city in the mountains of western Guangdong province over the weekend.

Guangdong Province received some 95 million international visitors in 2005. While many arrivals are from Hong Kong and Macau, Australia is also an important source market for the southernmost ...