Fujian And Taiwan Sign Agreements To Boost Tourism

At a ceremony celebrating 10,000 Taiwanese tourists visiting Fujian via Uni Air, Fujian and Taiwan have signed two cooperative agreements to boost tourism.

Under the agreement signed by Fujian Tourism Association and 24 agencies from Taiwan, between July 2009 and June 30, 2010, Taiwan Uni Air will organize 100,000 Taiwanese to visit Fujian and other mainland provinces.

Under another agreement concerning the development of Western Straits tourism, Lion Travel Service from Taiwan will invite 100 foreign travel salesmen to review Fujian's tourism resources, 1,000 young students to visit the west of the Taiwan Strait, and another 10,000 tourists from all over the world to visit Fujian by a multi-stop route from July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010.

The two agreements will further expand the inbound tourism of Fujian province, said Guo Hengming, the director of Fujian Tourism Association and Fujian Tourism Administration. Fujian is expected to be China's fourth key tourism area after the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta and Bohai Bay Rim.