Foreign tourists visiting Xintiandi
2 min readFrom 1843 to 1943, Shanghai experienced nearly 100 years of international concessions and colonial humiliation. But it can’t be denied that the presence of foreigners introduced new ideas and commodities. Tourism was one of those conceptual imports, providing fertile ground for the develop-ment of the modern transportation and hospitality industries.
Foreign tourists visiting the Longhua Pagoda Western ightseers have been streaming into Shanghai since the city was opened to foreigners and meanwhile introducing China to the concept of leisure travel for the first time.
The world-famous traveler and lecturer Aloha Wanderwell sitting in a Ford motorcar in Shanghai, 1935 Foreign tourists traveling to Shanghai usually used the services of Travelex, a British firm, or American Express to make their travel arrangements. In addition, many travelers made their own way by foot, bicycle and motorcar.
Passersby competing with each other to see the newly completed Wusong Railway(1876) Built by the Brit Qing government, the Wusong Railway was nprecedented attention.the preferred mode of transportation for water and land transportation networks and vel, Shanghai’s tourism industry entered a golden age as morand more people set out to see the world. A variety of travelling activities were planned and arranged by travel agencies, social groups, and even by the tourists themselves.
Tourists walking on the outskirts of Chongming Island in the early 1930s In 1915, the head of the foreign exchange department of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), Yao Yuangan, opened a non-profit the Shanghai Yousheng Travel Group. The group was set up by travel enthusiasts including the famous photographer Lu Shifu and painter Wang Yiting, and it adopted a system of membership Members of a tour group getting ashore at Wuxi Pier in the early 1930s.
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In August 1923, the Shanghai Commercial and Savings Bank opened its travel department first travel agency in China.
