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2007-05-25 | Beijing

News Travel market set to fully open (19th May 2007)
BEIJING, May, 19 (China Daily) -- China is to fully open its market to foreign travel agencies from July 1, about four months ahead of the November 11 deadline set by the World Trade Organization (WTO), said a senior official. For more information, please click here.

China approves 132 outbound tourist destinations (28th January 2007)
BEIJING, Jan, 27 (Xinhua) -- China has so far approved 132 countries and regions as destinations for outbound tourism, with 86 receiving Chinese tourist groups, said the China National Tourism Administration. For more information, please click here.

China eases capital restrictions on foreign travel agencies (19th January 2007)
JINAN, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese government is to ease the registered capital requirement on foreign-funded travel agencies from July 1, according to the National Tourism Administration (NTA). For more information, please click here.

Outbound travelers from Chinese mainland increase 11% in 2006 (15th January 2007)
BEIJING, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- The number of outbound travelers from the Chinese mainland reached 34.52 million in 2006, up 11.27 percent over the previous year, China's Ministry of Public Security said on Monday. For more information, please click here.

China receives 124 mln inbound travelers in 2006 (14th January 2007)
BEIJING, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- China received 124 million inbound travelers in 2006, ranking fourth in the world, according to statistics released by China National Tourism Administration (CNTA). For more information, please click here.

Chinese travel agency fined for selling cheap air tickets (17th December 2006)
JINAN, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- A travel agency in east China's Shandong Province has been fined 150,000 yuan (19,180 U.S. dollars) by the local government for selling air tickets for one yuan (13 U.S. cents) each. For more information, please click here. 

Chinese travel overseas this year (16th December 2006)
XICHANG, Sichuan Province, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- More than 34 million Chinese mainland people will have traveled overseas by the end of this year, up about 10 percent from 2005, a tourism official said on Saturday. For more information, please click here.

Retails of hotels and restaurants in China up 16.2 percent in Jan-Nov(15th December 2006)
BEIJING, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Total retails of hotels and restaurants in China reached 936.4 billion yuan (120 billion U.S. dollars) in the first 11 months of this year, a net increase of 130.5 billion yuan or 16.2 percent over the same period of last year, according to statistics published by the Ministry of Commerce on Friday. For more information, please click here.


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National Tourism Administration (China) http://old.cnta.gov.cn/lyen/index.asp