If you want to visit all the tourist attractions you haven't been to yet, but have not been willing to pay their often pricey entrance fees, here's good news for you. According to CNN Go, tomorrow is National Tourism Day and many of the city's most popular tourist sites will cut down their prices, or might even let you in for free, such as these ones:
• Shanghai Wild Animal Park
• Shanghai Arboretum
• Jinmao Tower

Shanghai has announced plans to invest 400 billion yuan 40 billion yuan into its tourism industry during the next five-year plan. [Correction: we originally reported 400 billion, the correct figure is 40 billion.] While Shanghai Disneyland and Happy Valley's "second phase" construction will suck up most of the money, there are also 11 other projects in the works, including ecological parks and nature resorts, as well as the Fengxian 'Oriental Venice' project. more ›

Yesterday, at Happy Valley, it was pretty much every rider's worst nightmare come true when a rollercoaster carrying 25 people suddenly stopped at its highest point, some 60m above ground. more ›

Maybe you've noticed a cutesy lil' deer mascot named 乐乐 (Lele) posing around town, or maybe you've actually opened up the papers today to see Shanghai media enthusiastically promoting the occasion - but yes, the Shanghai Tourism Festival is starting up this Saturday. more ›

Roller coasters have a special place in our hearts usually shared with cotton candy, summer vacation, and Mickey Mouse. And since Mickey Mouse in Shanghai might be nothing more than a dream anymore, we are more than a little excited for next week's opening of Shanghai Happy Valley (上海欢乐谷), soon to be China's largest amusement park. more ›

56minus1 takes a look at Shanghai's first ever wooden roller coaster. It'll be built over in Happy Valley at Sheshan, which ought to open some time in July... Also coming in mid-July: regular flights between Taiwan and China! The first direct flight ever, as we know, was through Shanghai. more ›

Normally we wouldn't look twice at tourism expos in Shanghai, but when this popped up in our Xinmin (新民日报） feed this morning, our first thoughts were “WTF are those creatures supposed to be” and then “OMG, I think I see the acronym 'WTF' is in the story!” more ›