In China the tour operators have different authorisations to handle tourists. Therefore they are separated in three classes of tour operators:
- IATA tour operators who can perform outbound-, inbound- and domestic tourism in China. In 2003 their have been round about 500 tour operators of this class.
- International tour operators who can treat inbound and domestic tourists. In 2002 their have been round about1200 tour operators of this class
- National tour operators who can work only on the domestic tourism market. In 2002 their have been 10.203 from this kind of tour operators.
The first official list of Chinese outbound IATA tour operators have been published in the year 2000 from the CNTA.
Need more informations
need more informations about tour operators in China
You can look at the following blog for more information on China’s tourism, both outbound, inbound and domestic.
China Travel Industry Blog contains over 18 months’ worth of news and analysis on China’s travel sector. It is affiliated to the only forum in Europe to discuss China’s tourism industry (China - the Future of Travel at World Travel Market)
http://www.future-of-travel.org/news
Thank you Roy for the comment, you have good and interessting informations on your blog.
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Dear Sir,
i am going on vaccation holiday of a life time in china,i need china travel tourism guied.
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i need tourism travel giued and invitation letter to get tourism visitor visa to explore.
your country embassy in nigeria will ask for this letter so that i will be able to get tourism visitor visa.
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or how iam i going to get tourism bvisitor visa, ined your reply.
or how iam i going to get tourism visitor visa, i ned your reply.
hi
we are a group of hotels and self catering serviced apartment in london. we are very much interested in accomodating chinese tourists. please give me the relevant guidelineds and contact details of outbound tour operators. much obliged.
kind regards
faisal saeed
I would be interested in more information about this also. Thanks!