Sino-Foreign Joint travel agency operates outbound tour

Le King foreign travel agencies to operate the pace of outbound travel more and more near. "The first financial daily" learned from the National Tourism Administration yesterday, has begun to accept the Sino-foreign joint ventures operating the Chinese citizens outbound tourism business application, which marks the opening of China's tourism market has taken a substantive step.　　However, foreign-owned travel agencies have not yet opened the outbound tour. Recently, the National Tourism Administration and the Ministry of Commerce jointly issued the "China-foreign joint venture travel agency pilot operation of outbound tourism supervision interim measures", the pilot work in the Approved Sino-foreign joint venture travel agency to select a part of outstanding performance, management norms of travel agencies. The State Council's opinion on speeding up the development of tourism, issued December 1 last year, further made it clear: "On the basis of the pilot, gradually open the business of Chinese citizens outbound tourism to foreign investment travel agencies." At present, China has a total of 17 Sino-foreign joint ventures.　　According to the provisions, the intention to participate in the Pilot Sino-foreign joint ventures, will need to submit applications before September 30 this year, and submitted to the National Tourism Administration. At present, most of the Sino-foreign joint ventures including Jinjiang International HRG, CWT, American Express and National travel head of the joint venture travel company, Ltd., to operate business hotel. This is because the foreign shareholders have a large number of global multinational enterprise customers, and in the absence of open travel, Sino-foreign joint ventures in the business-level advantage will be stronger than the local travel agencies.　　The clear opening of the outbound travel of Sino-foreign joint ventures has given these operators a chance to broaden their markets. "We have been in the joint venture with Jinjiang for many years, because not to operate outbound travel, so most of the business is acting as a major international company's air tickets and hotel business, as well as packaging travel products, now policy open, we also set up a team."　　Chen, director of Shanghai Jinjiang International HRG Business Travel Co., Ltd. Many operators reflect that foreign-funded joint ventures and wholly-owned travel agencies are most concerned about outbound travel, as compared with inbound and outbound travel, foreign tourism companies with a strong wholesale and retail system and scale abroad have the most advantageous business is outbound travel. Although this policy liberalization does not involve wholly foreign-owned travel agencies, but the opening of outbound travel to Sino-foreign joint ventures has released a clear signal.