污染严重导致赴华游客人数下降

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VOA Chinese, Aug 3, 2013.
http://www.voachinese.com/conten ... 130813/1728864.html

Note: The report is based on

Louise Watt, Great Wall not Enough: Tourists increasingly put off by China's bad air. Associated Press, Aug 13, 2013
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/r ... ir/article13724986/
("From January to June, the total number of foreign visitors, including business travellers and residents, entering China declined by 5 per cent to just under 13 million compared with the same period last year, according to the China National Tourism Administration. * * * Total numbers of foreigners to Beijing rose in January by 13 per cent compared with a year earlier. But following news reports of January’s smog, they dropped in February by 37 per cent compared with February 2012")

(a) "The city of Awara in central Japan cancelled a student exchange trip due to bad air. Eighteen Japanese students were due to visit the eastern coastal city of Shaoxing under an annual exchange program that goes back 30 years."
(i) Awara, Fukui  福井県 あわら市
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awara,_Fukui
(The city was founded on March 1, 2004 from the merger of the towns of Awara 芦原 町 and Kanazu 金津 町)
(ii) ashi《葦; 蘆; 芦》 【あし】 (n): "common reed (Phragmites australis)"
(iii) wara/hara 原

(b) "China is the world’s No. 3 destination for international travel after France and the United States."

tourim
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism
(section 2 World tourism statistics and rankings)

Take notice World Tourism Organization considers Hong Kong or Macau as separate territories, so that visits between these two and China are deemed "international."
(c) Cuiming Garden Hotel  北京市 翠明庄宾馆