Huge Titanic replica to open as Chinese tourist destination

In this aerial photo taken on April 27, 2021, a replica of the Titanic ship in Daying County in China's southwest Sichuan province is under construction. - AFP

SUINING, China (AFP): The Titanic is being brought back from the deep, more than a century after its ill-fated maiden voyage, at a landlocked Chinese theme park where tourists can soon splash out for a night on a fullscale replica.

The project's main backer was inspired to recreate the world's most infamous cruise liner by the 1997 box office hit of the same name -- once the world's top-grossing film and wildly popular in China.