Washington, DC, boosting efforts to attract Chinese

The checklist of things that hotels, restaurants, museums, airports and other tourism-related businesses in Washington, DC, should provide to attract Chinese tourists includes accepting China UnionPay and having Chinese social media accounts, free Wi-Fi and smoking rooms.

On Tuesday, representatives from the tourism industry and related businesses across the greater DC area gathered at a conference focusing on the Chinese tourism market, on the eve of the weeklong National Day holiday.

The conference, hosted by marketing organization Destination DC, was also part of the Welcome China program initiated recently by Destination DC to help the area to better accommodate Chinese visitors.