China and Britain has signed "Tourism Memorandum of Understanding" recently, allowing individuals to travel in the UK, So far, 25 member nations of the European Union are destination countries of Chinese tourists. Worldwide, tourists can go to 91 countries; 63 of which are currently visited by Chinese.
As UK has become an official tourist destination of China, the British Tourism Authority and Virgin Atlantic Airlines have been busily preparing issues of various kinds of tour packages, especially the individual ones.
Many Chinese Tour agencies also have eyes on this potential market, an eight-day tour to UK, including sightseeing in Cambridge, Oxford, London and Manchester, is set to depart on February 9 from Shanghai.