<div class="page traditional" style=" background-color: #ffffff; "> <article> <header> <h1 style=" color: #000;">China Ready</h1> <p class="byline"> </p> </header> <div class="main"> <img src="/uploads/5a58d73e3ef4c.jpg" class="title-pic" alt=""/> <p class="summary" style=" color: #000;">China is the world’s largest and fastest growing outbound travel market and as the only hotel group to hold the China Ready accreditation, Hastings Hotels is best placed to welcome Chinese guests to Northern Ireland</p> <p>As part of the accreditation, Hastings Hotels has made a number of changes to its communications throughout the hotels to ensure it is ‘<em style="background-color: initial;">China Ready’&nbsp;</em>including dedicated Chinese landing pages on its website, a dedicated photo opportunity area within the hotels, staff being trained in key welcome phrases and the hotel accepting “Union Pay” credit cards as payment.</p><p>Photograph -&nbsp;</p><p><em>Howard Hastings, Aileen Martin and Weng Chi Lam from Hastings Hotels were joined by Gerry Lennon of Visit Belfast, Niall Gibbons of Tourism Ireland, Tony Lenehan from the Centre of Competitiveness and John McGrillen of Tourism Northern Ireland at the announcement that Hastings Hotels has become thefirst hotel group on the island of Ireland to achieve theChina Readyaccreditation which has been awarded by the Chinese Outbound Tourism Research Institute (COTRI).</em></p> </div> </article> </div><!-- /page-->