Harvard Is Summer Mecca as Chinese Students Crowd Boston

Chinese students have a new favorite summer destination: Harvard University.

So many students and their families are visiting Boston-area schools such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tufts University that Hainan Airlines Co. started direct flights to Boston from Beijing in June and increased the number from four to seven a week in July and August. Tufts gets so many requests from large organized groups that it runs separate tours for them.