Year of the Tiger, 2010 Chinese New Year celebrations at New York :In the year 2010 during the Spring Festival, there will be more than 1200 Chinese tourists will travel to New York to celebrate the Lunar New Year, they will also visit the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty. On 2010 Lunar New Year, New York City is about to enter it’s most extensive scale in the history of Chinese tour groups .
It is understood that the evening of February 16, Chinese tourists arrived in New York in Manhattan’s Chinatown (Chinatown) gathered together in a dinner to enjoy the traditional music and dance performances. Chinese New Year celebrations will last for a week and in New York in five districts of the city to carry out, the celebration included: The 11th Chinese New Year parade, fireworks, Ho Tai-year-old Lunar New Year Dance Collection, as well as the Spring Festival, gnocchi hand-made, New Year’s Chinatown Walking Tour and other activities.
With immediate effect you can log on the New York City Visitor and Convention Bureau’s official website www.nycgo.com about colorful Chinese Lunar New Year program schedule.
China National Tourism Administration and the U.S. Department of Commerce in 2007 signed a “Memorandum of Understanding” (MOU) is not only to encourage Chinese tourists to the United States team of travel, but also allow the United States tourism destination in China with market promotion.
As Chinese tourists in the United States feels that it is the most attractive tourist destination, New York City’s organizes many cultural attractions and tourist sites are launched for the Chinese tourists tailored service measures: Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) to provide Mandarin audio guide, New York Gray Line Sightseeing Bus (Gray Line New York Sightseeing) “City Tour” route (City Tours) and the New York City Sightseeing Bus Company (CitySights NY) are also characteristics of Mandarin sightseeing routes, while the New York City Visitor and Convention Bureau Simplified Chinese version of the quick guide and website resources for Chinese tourists travel in New York provides convenience, In addition, The information officers are also there to help Chinese tourists swim in New York.
As early as June 2007, New York City Tourism Convention and Exhibition Bureau has set up its China office in Shanghai, open up the growing Chinese market.
In 2009 about 209,000 from mainland China and Hong Kong tourists visiting New York and a survey of travelers against China, most Chinese tourists have to travel abroad in New York as their “dream land” and New York as the first stop to explore the United States.