by Melinda Allman What’s Cool: The Great Wall could stretch from Florida to the North Pole. China’s Great Wall, stretching more than 4,500 miles (7,300 km) across the northern Chinese countryside, was built originally as a fortification to protect Chinese lands from invasion and to keep the nation’s people from leaving the empire. In the […]
Publication: Travel + Leisure Feature: 125 Travel Super-Agents Issue: September 2003 Editor: Nathan Lump Reported By: David Jefferys and Shane Mitchell This excerpt originally appeared in Travel + Leisure and is reproduced here as part of Imperial Tours’ media and publication archive. Edited by Nathan Lump, Reported by David Jefferys and Shane Mitchell 125 Travel […]
Published on 12 August 2003 by Travel Age West & Travelagewest.com Although the Athens Olympics are less than a year away, many travel professionals are already ramping up for the 2008 Games in Beijing. “We plan for it to be a major part of what we do here for the next few years,” said Gilbert Whelan, […]
by Jacob Ulevich Businesswoman Nancy Kim lends her time, talent and energy to benefit Special Olympics China Nancy Kim, owner of Imperial Tours is a relative newcomer to the world of Special Olympics. Her involvement with the movement began during the summer of 2002 when she volunteered to serve as the Chair of the Special […]
By Guy Rubin Centuries ago, in a cliff-face in the midst of China’s vast Taklamakan desert, artists hollowed, sculpted and painted 492 caves, creating over 450,000 square feet of spectacular murals, or more than thirty times the mural area of the Sistine Chapel. But whereas the Sistine Chapel was painted over a few years, the […]
