Shanghai Tourism "New 12": Encourage enterprises and institutions to entrust travel agencies to arrange matters.

Shanghai once again launched a policy to support the development of tourism.

On June 17, the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, the Municipal Development and Reform Commission and the Municipal Finance Bureau jointly issued "Several Measures to Support the Quality and Empowerment of Shanghai's Tourism Industry" (hereinafter referred to as "new 12"), proposing to strengthen financing support for enterprises, support tourism enterprises to broaden financing channels through private equity investment, listing and bond issuance, and actively develop tourism insurance products to help accelerate the tourism market.

Among them, the eighth paragraph of the new 12 article "Encourage enterprises to expand the tourism market" clearly stipulates that tourism enterprises are encouraged to serve the centennial theme activities of party building, the theme training activities of party building, the study of party history of relevant units, and the spring and autumn tour activities and official activities of trade unions of organs, enterprises and institutions, and travel agencies are encouraged to arrange transportation, accommodation, catering, meetings and other matters on their behalf.

The manager of a Beijing Travel Agency Shanghai Branch told www.thepaper.cn that the information published in this article is a supplement to the notice issued by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China.

On June 1 this year, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism issued the Notice on Strengthening Policy Support to Further Support the Development of Travel Agencies, explicitly encouraging state organs, enterprises, institutions and social organizations at all levels to carry out party building activities and official activities, and entrusting travel agencies to arrange transportation, accommodation, catering, meetings and other matters.

The manager of the above-mentioned travel agency said that the basic travel of schools, governments, enterprises and institutions was restricted due to the COVID-19 epidemic. This time, the article encourages travel. On the one hand, the number of tourists in Shanghai will increase this year; On the other hand, as far as travel agencies are concerned, there will be more special groups such as schools, governments, treatment and rest. It is beneficial to the development of travel agencies to change the current situation that most travel agencies are "old people's groups".

On the whole, Zhou, deputy general manager of Spring and Autumn Tourism, told this newspaper that the epidemic has caused a lasting and serious blow to tourism, and the recovery of tourism, especially the travel agency industry, is still very difficult. The release of the new article 12 is a very good stabilizer for the confidence of enterprises, and the implementation of the policy will certainly benefit more tourism enterprises.

Zhou pointed out that the new article 12 proposes to strengthen the publicity of Shanghai's city image, which is helpful to enhance the attraction and flow of Shanghai's cultural tourism. This is a long-term support for local tourism enterprises to do a good job in Shanghai's tourism products and services, especially for enterprises that have been digging deep into Shanghai's local tourism resources and actively organizing products.