Regulations of Zhuhai Special Economic Zone on Tourism

Chapter I General Provisions Article 1 In order to protect the legitimate rights and interests of tourists and tour operators, standardize the order of the tourism market and promote the sustained and healthy development of the tourism industry, these Regulations are formulated in accordance with the basic principles of the Tourism Law of the People's Republic of China and other relevant laws and administrative regulations, and in combination with the reality of Zhuhai Special Economic Zone. Article 2 These Regulations shall apply to tourism activities, tourism business activities, tourism development and related supervision and management within the administrative area of this Municipality. Article 3 This Municipality will promote the development of global tourism, highlight the coastal characteristics and port advantages, and build Zhuhai into an important tourism distribution center in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and a coastal international leisure tourism destination city. Article 4 The municipal and district people's governments (hereinafter referred to as municipal and district governments) shall strengthen the organization and leadership of tourism, and take tourism as an important industry and bring it into the national economic and social development plan.

Hengqin New District, economic function zone management agencies to perform the duties of the district government. Article 5 The municipal and district tourism administrative departments shall be responsible for the comprehensive coordination, industry guidance, tourism publicity, public services and supervision and management of tourism in their respective jurisdictions.

Market supervision, public security, transportation, development and reform, price, commerce, natural resources, construction, culture, sports, emergency management, health and other administrative departments shall, according to their respective duties, do a good job in safeguarding and promoting the development of tourism and tourism supervision and management. Article 6 The municipal and district governments shall arrange financial funds according to the needs of tourism development, and strengthen tourism infrastructure construction, tourism services, tourism image publicity and tourism resource protection.

Encourage and guide social capital to invest in tourism. Article 7 Tourism industry associations shall formulate industry operation norms and service standards, strengthen industry self-discipline, standardize industry competition, promote the construction of industry integrity, and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of members. Article 8 The government and relevant departments shall provide necessary guarantees and encourage tourism voluntary service organizations to provide services and help for tourists. Chapter II Tourism Planning and Development Article 9 The municipal tourism administrative department shall, jointly with the natural resources department, work out the overall tourism development plan of this Municipality according to the national economic and social development plan, and report it to the municipal government for approval before implementation, and make it public.

The district government shall, according to the city's tourism development plan, prepare the tourism development plan of this area. Tenth tourism development planning should be linked with the overall urban planning, land use planning and environmental protection planning.

The relevant departments shall solicit the opinions of the municipal tourism administration department when making plans related to tourism, taking into account the needs of tourism development. Eleventh overall planning of tourism development involves the contents of spatial layout and land use, which should be included in the regulatory detailed planning.

The preparation of regulatory detailed planning for areas with tourism functions shall solicit the opinions of the municipal tourism administrative department. Twelfth municipal tourism administrative departments shall, jointly with relevant departments, prepare a catalogue of key tourism construction projects, and announce it to the public after being approved by the municipal government.

Key tourism construction projects shall conform to the overall land use planning, and those involving new construction land shall be given priority in the annual land use plan of the whole city. Thirteenth municipal government should make overall arrangements for tourism land in the annual land supply plan to ensure the construction land for tourism projects.

Encourage rural collective economic organizations to use construction land for self-management or participate in tourism project construction by means of land use right and island use right according to law. Fourteenth municipal tourism administrative departments shall, in conjunction with the administrative departments of natural resources, culture, cultural relics, statistics, gardens and other administrative departments, conduct a survey, classification and evaluation of tourism resources, establish a database of tourism resources, and update it regularly. Fifteenth the use of historical and cultural towns and villages, historical buildings and other human resources to develop tourism projects, should maintain its unique features, and shall not be rebuilt, moved or demolished without authorization. Article 16 The municipal and district governments shall promote the simultaneous development of leisure and holiday tourism and sightseeing tourism, promote the innovation of tourism formats such as coastal tourism, rural tourism, exhibition tourism, industrial tourism, leisure tourism, sports tourism, scientific and technological tourism and red tourism, and promote the integrated development of tourism and other industries. The specific measures shall be formulated separately by the municipal government. Seventeenth municipal tourism administrative departments shall, jointly with relevant departments, organize the exploration of Zhuhai Special Economic Zone culture, marine culture, Xiangshan culture and other tourism resources with cultural connotations; Vigorously develop cultural tourism projects such as museums, celebrities' former residences, art galleries, memorial halls and intangible cultural heritage. Eighteenth municipal tourism administrative departments shall formulate tourism promotion plans and organize the promotion of the city's overall tourism image, key routes and resources, and special products.

Tourism industry associations may authorize tourism operators to use their high-quality service recommendation marks to guide their members to develop tourism products. Article 19 Promote the cooperation and innovative development of tourism business between this Municipality and Hong Kong and Macao, support Hong Kong and Macao to invest in tourism projects in this Municipality, and facilitate the entry of tourists from this Municipality and Hong Kong and Macao.

The municipal tourism administrative department shall strengthen cooperation with relevant institutions in Hong Kong and Macao, and establish and improve the tourism cooperation mechanism with Hong Kong and Macao. Chapter III Tourism Public Service Article 20 The municipal tourism administrative department shall establish a comprehensive service platform for smart tourism, and give play to the functions of statistical analysis, publicity and promotion, industry management and public service of big data; Establish a real-time tourism monitoring and guidance system and a tourism complaint rights protection system. And build a self-service platform for tourism.