国产热热热精品,亚洲视频久久】日韩,三级婷婷在线久久,99人妻精品视频,精品九热人人肉肉在线,AV东京热一区二区,91po在线视频观看,久久激情宗合,青青草黄色手机视频

Center

Foreign tour firms set for easier travel

By Xin Dingding (China Daily)
Updated: 2007-07-05 08:20
Large Medium Small

The tourism regulator is working on details to further open the market to foreign operators by lowering capital requirements and allowing subsidiaries.

Foreign tour agencies will be treated on par with domestic counterparts when it comes to registered capital, a China National Tourism Administration (CNTA) official has said.

Currently, they are required to have a minimum of 2.5 million yuan ($328,000) in registered capital, compared to 300,000 yuan (39,400) for domestic tours and 1.5 million yuan ($197,000) for outbound and inbound tours for Chinese counterparts.

The CNTA has also allowed foreign-funded travel agencies to set up subsidiaries in China starting July 1, four months ahead of the November 11 deadline set by the World Trade Organization (WTO).

However, details of the two moves are yet to be released.

By May, there were 29 solely-funded or joint-venture foreign tour operators, according to CNTA figures.

But the tourism regulator has not taken any steps to allow foreign tour agencies to handle outbound business. Currently, they are allowed to operate only inbound and domestic travel.

Another CNTA official said outbound tourism - the most lucrative part of the market - will remain closed to foreign tour agencies for now, because "it is not part of China's promise to the WTO".

The World Tourism Organization estimates China will become the world's fourth-largest source of outbound tourists by 2015.

"It is the potential of the outbound market that has attracted so many foreign operators in the first place," said an industry insider, who left a large State-owned tourism company to join a Beijing-based joint-venture tour agency a few years ago.

"We are looking forward to the day when the outbound market opens," he said.

One positive signal is that the CNTA recently allowed Hong Kong and Macao-funded tour agencies to cater to mainland tourists in eight provinces and regions bound for the two special administrative regions.

Takashi Ota, president of Kinki Nippon Tourist Co Ltd, Japan's second-largest tourism company, suggested the CNTA consider allowing collaboration between foreign and Chinese tour operators in the outbound market as a start.

But some large domestic agencies said they prefer current policies that bar access to the outbound market for foreign firms.

分享按鈕
新竹县| 乌苏市| 郯城县| 昆山市| 深州市| 宜君县| 浮梁县| 石嘴山市| 什邡市| 石台县| 策勒县| 定日县| 南靖县| 油尖旺区| 汉川市| 元朗区| 玉林市| 石家庄市| 自贡市| 容城县| 新乡市| 湾仔区| 新安县| 娄烦县| 莆田市| 宜城市| 桑日县| 车险| 大安市| 宜章县| 盐津县| SHOW| 兴城市| 新干县| 横峰县| 民县| 襄樊市| 贺州市| 若尔盖县| 河津市| 迁西县|