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Development of the Tourism Industry in China
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Jiang Kaishek Comes to Power
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Mao Zedong Comes into Power
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China's Closed Door Policy Begins
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China International Travel Service Established
For foreign visitors and the only incoming foreign visitors were from the USSR. Designed to nuture friendships with other communist/socialist countries. -
Overseas Chinese Travel Services in 16 other major cities
Part of China's efforts to gain sympathy from Chinese people residing abroad. -
Overseas Chinese Travel Service Headquarters Beijing
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Limited Tourists Numbers
400 incoming foreign visitors during the entire year. Visitors had to be approved by the ministry of foreign affairs or Mao himself -
Insufficient Tourism Infrastructure and Facilities
When China reopened their country for visitors, there were not enough hotels to supply rooms for travelers with only 137 hotels in all of China in 1978, and a total of 1.8 million visitors that year that needed places to stay. There was an stimated 4.2 million visitors the following year. -
China's Closed Door Policy Ends
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Deng Xiaoping and Chen Yun became leaders of the CPC
Understand the importance of reviving the economy and believe the tourism sector can help. -
Domestic Investment in Tourism Development Projects
Central government, localities, individual government departments, collectives and individuals could invest and operate tourism development projects -
State Council Established
Bureau of Travel and Tourism placed under jurisdiction of the renamed State Council, State General Administration of Travel and Tourism
sole responsibility: Tourism -
Travel Agencies introduced to Private Sector
SGATT allowed travel agencies to be owned collectively and privately
allowed for growth in tourists to country and stimulated hotel development -
45 Foriegn Invested Hotels!
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National Tourism Plan
Goal was to enable China to enter the ranks of more advanced tourist-receiving countries in terms of service quality and infrastructure development -
Tourism in Plan to Stimulate Economy
Tourism industry placed into the National Plan for Social and Economic Development. -
Tiananmen Square Massacre
The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, also known as the June Fourth Incident in Chinese, were student-led popular demonstrations in Beijing in the spring of 1989 that received broad support from city residents and exposed deep splits within China's political leadership but were forcibly and violently suppressed by hardline leaders who ordered the military to enforce martial law in the country's capital. -Wikipedia -
Projected Goal not Reached
Due to the Tiananmen Square Incident, the projected goal of 5 million visitors during the year of 1991 was not reached and only 3 million visited. -
Start of "Market" Economy
Deng Xiaoping hopes to open Chinese economy to foreign investment more than ever before. This is the beginning of a market-oriented economy for China. -
Right to Stipulate Prices
Tourism corporations given the right to stipulate their own prices based on domestic and international tourism market demand. -
Plan for State Level Resorts
State Council decided to build 12 state level resorts to combine sightseeing and vacationing -
Chinese granted Substantial Time to Travel
Chinese granted 3 weeklong holiday and five day work weeks. -
China Survives Pacific Asia Financial Crisis
China survives Pacific Asia Financial Crisis unscathed. -
Beijing Olympics!
Olympics Begin. Responsible for a lot of progress in infrastructure.