Travel to China Down in 2008
Travel Blog • Julia Ross • 06.17.08 | 10:31 AM ET
Protests in Tibet. A major earthquake. Tightened visa restrictions. The yuan’s rise against the dollar. Never mind the upcoming Olympics, China tourism is suffering.
Photo by d’n'c via Flickr (Creative Commons).
Julia Ross is a Washington, DC-based writer and frequent contributor to World Hum. She has lived in China and Taiwan, where she was a Fulbright scholar and Mandarin student. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Time, Christian Science Monitor, Plenty and other publications. Her essay, Six Degrees of Vietnam, was shortlisted for "The Best American Travel Writing 2009."