According to the National Tourism Administration expects the number of China's outbound tourism in 2012 will reach 77 million passengers, an increase of 12%.
National Tourism Administration Shao Qiwei 12 here at the 2012 national tourism work conference , said that this year China will maintain steady and rapid growth of tourism development pattern. Development of tourism throughout the year for domestic tourism target number of 2.9 billion people, an increase of 10%; domestic tourism income of 2.22 trillion yuan, an increase of 15%; 138 million tourist arrivals passengers, an increase of 2%; number of inbound travelers 5850 million, up 2%; tourism foreign exchange income of 500 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 6%; total tourism income of 2.57 trillion yuan, an increase of 14%. New tourism directly employed 500000 people.
He said that currently China's tourism industry at an important period of strategic opportunities, the national economy sustained steady and rapid development of the overall pattern will not change, people's income has increased steadily, rapid growth of tourism demand will not change the basic trend. Central Economic Work Conference highlighted the importance of expanding domestic demand, the tourism consumption into important areas of expanding domestic demand, will increase the tourism development policy advantages. Meanwhile, China's railways, highways, civil aviation, water transport and other infrastructure continue to increase, hotels, scenic spots, tourist reception facilities to speed up tourism investment continues to heat up, increasing the supply of tourism will boost tourism consumption increased rapidly. As China's accelerated urbanization and the social security system continues to improve, expand the scale of middle-income groups, the development of mass tourism trend is more obvious, the elderly, youth, students, farmers and other fast-growing travel consumer groups.
It is reported that this year's National Tourism Bureau will promote the expansion of mainland residents to Hong Kong to the "individual visit" and the Guangdong Province to Hong Kong, "a sign multi-line" policy scope. Support the construction of Macau World Tourism Leisure Centre. Focus on developing young emerging source markets, Hong Kong and Macao, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao to deepen regional tourism cooperation. Mainland and Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan travel to play the role of a consultation mechanism to further enhance tourism safety accident, tourism co-disposal of complaints disputes ability to continue to jointly regulate the tourism market order. Source: First Travel Network
