Describe the environment with Xiamen English version

Xiamen is a beautiful seaside garden. A city in the sea and a sea in the city is a vivid description of Xiamen. Islands and islets, cliffs and cliffs, rocks and stones, temples, subtropical flowers and trees are more beautiful against each other. Xiamen is famous for its large number of overseas Chinese, which is the basis for Xiamen to become a city with local conditions and Taiwan Province customs, delicious seafood and exotic architecture. The pleasant climate with spring-like seasons is another feature of this seaside city to attract tourists. Xiamen is located opposite Taiwan Province, facing Southeast Asia across the Taiwan Province Strait. This geographical advantage and supporting transportation facilities such as waterway, land and aviation are also powerful driving forces for the sustainable development of tourism in Xiamen.

Shortly after the founding of New China, Xiamen began to develop tourism. 1949 1 1 month, Xiamen Overseas Chinese Travel Agency, namely Xiamen China Travel Agency, was established, which was actually the first travel agency established in New China. Since the reform and opening up, Xiamen's tourism industry has developed vigorously. From 199 1 to 1998, the number of foreign tourists visiting Xiamen, the number of days of tourists visiting Xiamen and the tourism (foreign exchange) income ranked tenth among the national tourist cities for eight consecutive years. Domestic tourism has also made remarkable progress. After decades of development, Xiamen has been listed as one of the tourist cities in China, and tourism has become an important economic sector and a new economic growth point in Xiamen.

In order to build Xiamen into a seaside garden, as a new tourist city, the quality of Xiamen's tourism industry has been significantly improved. It has also made great progress in expanding the domestic and international tourism market. In terms of tourism legislation, Xiamen has promulgated its own laws and regulations to regulate the business activities of Xiamen's tourism industry. Including "Regulations on Tourism Management in Xiamen", "Interim Provisions on the Protection and Development of Tourism Resources in Xiamen", "Measures for the Administration of Designated Tourism Units in Xiamen" and "Interim Provisions on the Administration of One-day Tour Routes in Xiamen". Together, the above documents constitute the basic legislation for the management of local tourism, which helps to create favorable conditions for the management of tourism in accordance with rules and regulations. In terms of tourism resources development, Xiamen has built more than ten tourist attractions, including Gulangyu Island, Wanshi Mountain, Nanputuo Temple and Jimei Scholar Village. The State Council has designated Gulangyu-Wanshi Mountain tourist route as one of the national key scenic spots. Especially, in order to make Xiamen a more attractive city for foreign companies and individual investors, since 1995, it has completed the construction of the following new tourism projects-Xiamen Film and Television Entertainment City, Taiwan Province Folk Village (namely Jingzhou Amusement Park), Gulangyu Underwater World, Hu Lishan Fort Glory Treasure Museum, Jimei Aviation Science and Technology City, Oriental (Oriental) Country Golf Club and Kaikai (Daige). All the above entertainment facilities have been opened to the public. In terms of tourist hotels and travel agencies, there are 79 hotels in Xiamen that can receive foreign tourists, including 45 four-star hotels with rooms 10200; About 340 small and medium-sized social hotels with about 2,200 beds. There are 0/2 international travel agencies, 36 domestic travel agencies and more than 200 public entertainment places. In the whole year, it received 483,500 overseas tourists and 5,855,200 domestic tourists, earning 239 million US dollars and 5,576 million RMB respectively. The increase in tourism revenue has increased the city's GDP by 6%.

In order to meet the new challenges in the new century with greater vitality, Xiamen has set the cross-century goal of developing tourism-building Xiamen into an important tourist port in the southeast and a seaside tourist city with perfect tourism infrastructure and entertainment facilities to attract international tourists and vacationers.