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outlet , after new figures showed Britain's capital had lost morethan
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Khan said: "From traditional workingmen's clubs to cutting-edgemicro breweries air max 90 clearance
outlet , London's locals are as diverse and eclectic as thepeople who
frequent them."
"I'm shocked at the rate of closure highlighted by thesestatistics. We will do all we can to protect pubs acrossLondon."
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Two London boroughs -- Barking and Dagenham -- have reported aloss of more than half of their pubs. Hackney was the only Londonborough that reported an
increase of three percent since 2001.
A recent survey of international visitors to London revealedthat 54 percent visited a pub during their stay in the capital,underlining pubs' great cultural
importance to the city and deepconnection with English
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outlet , said a spokesman for the mayor'soffice.
An audit of London's public houses is the first strand of themayor's cultural infrastructure plan for 2030 to identify what isneeded to sustain London's
future as a cultural capital.
A report from the mayor's office said: "Although the number ofpubs in the capital has dramatically fallen, employment in pubs hasgrown by
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an increase of 8.7percent."
Many of London's surviving old pubs have links with some of thecapital's famous characters, including the writer Charles
Dickens air max 90 pink
outlet ,the famous highwayman bandit Dick Turpin, and King Charles II,
whoused to take his mistress Nell Gwynn to the Dove pub inHammersmith. Enditem
By Peter Mertz, Huang Heng
DENVER, the United States, March 19 (Xinhua) -- As thousands of Colorado travelers flocked into the Colorado Convention Center for the 2017 Travel and
Adventure Show, Joe Sinisi looked on and smiled.
Sinisi started Access China Tours 21 years ago with two Beijing English professors, when China was just beginning the rampant growth that stuns tourists
today.
"Access China's growth parallels the sophistication of China's evolution," Sinisi told Xinhua Saturday. "We have enjoyed the journey with China into the
21st century."
Sinisi, 52, talked to Xinhua from Access China's booth - one of 200 - that filled the packed convention hall Saturday and was conveniently located next to
the China National Tourist office booth.
Access China is a boutique travel agency that caters to customer' s needs like no other - with tours tailored toward specific requests from clients.
Today the agency crafts some 200 specialty tours and sends 1,000 tourists to the world's most popular destination each year.
More than 2 million Americans joined 100 million global visitors to China last year, and Chinese tourism officials see those numbers doubling in the next
few years to 5 million.
As 2017 began, the China National Tourism Administration launched a large-scale thematic advertising campaign called, 'Beautiful China - 2017 Year
of Silk Road Tourism.'
The campaign was unveiled simultaneously in more than 20 countries, including the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Japan and South Korea.
Saturday, Chinese officials took to the stage to show the circuitous route the Silk Road tour would take across China.
"We are hopeful the amazing destinations along the historic Silk Road will continue to draw record numbers of Americans," Ning Wu, Director of the China
National Tourist office in Los Angeles, told Xinhua.
Wu was in Washington, DC last November for closing ceremonies for the "China-USA Tourism Year," a high-level event that brought China Vice Premier
Wang Yang.
2017 is the third consecutive year celebrating the "Year of Silk Road Tourism," a themed slogan that will continue to "Explore Beautiful China along
the Silk Road," Chinese tourism literature markets.
The historic Silk Road winds through western China, dips into southeast Asia, and continues north another two thousand miles up the east coast past the
biggest cities in China today, including Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong,
Shanghai, Qing Dao, and Dalian.
The history of the European trade route dates back to the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD) and became famous during the Yuan Dynasty when it was used by
the Italian explorer Marco Polo.
While the Silk Road theme may be 2,000 years old, China's emergence as the world's top destination is all 21st century.
China Highlight online Director Victor Shu predicted the next decade would see records numbers of tourists each year, if global economic conditions hold,
as people across the planet flock to China.
None of those interviewed at the convention omitted China from their list of highly sought destinations.
"I remember a trip in 1997 when China had 'so-called' 5-star hotels where guests couldn't exchange money, where nobody spoke English, and where there
wasn't hot water all the time," Sinisi smiled.
"But that's not the case anymore - China has the finest hotels on earth, and the Beijing Ritz Carleton is as good as any in the world, even Paris," Sinisi
said.
Sinisi is no novice when it comes to global travel. A 1988 graduate of Princeton University in politics, Sinisi worked as a lawyer in Australia,
Micronesia, and Denver, before teaching contract and intellectual property law
to elite students in Beijing in 1995.
The next year he met Beijing University English professors Mark Huang and Cherry Chen, a husband and wife team who wanted to start a travel agency.
"We always knew about the expectations of American tourists but it took us some t
