The Tourism Law stipulates that people's governments at all levels should fully consider the spatial layout and construction of relevant tourism projects and facilities when compiling.

Tourist attractions built with public resources should reflect public welfare. According to Article 4 of the Tourism Law of the People's Republic of China, the development of tourism should follow the principle of integrating social benefits, economic benefits and ecological benefits.

Tourism Law of the People's Republic of China

Chapter III Tourism Planning and Promotion

Seventeenth the State Council and the local people's governments at or above the county level shall incorporate the development of tourism into the national economic and social development plan.

The State Council and the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, as well as the people's governments of cities and counties rich in tourism resources, shall organize the formulation of tourism development plans according to the requirements of the national economic and social development plans. When making use of tourism resources that are suitable for overall utilization across administrative regions, the people's government at a higher level shall organize the compilation or the relevant local people's governments shall negotiate the compilation of a unified tourism development plan.

Article 18 The tourism development plan shall include the overall requirements and development objectives of tourism development, the requirements and measures for the protection and utilization of tourism resources, the requirements and promotion measures for the development of tourism products, the improvement of tourism service quality, the construction of tourism culture, the promotion of tourism image, the construction of tourism infrastructure and public service facilities, etc.

According to the tourism development plan, local people's governments at or above the county level can make special plans for the development and utilization of key tourism resources and put forward special requirements for tourism projects, facilities and service functions in specific areas.

Nineteenth tourism development planning should be linked with the overall land use planning, urban and rural planning, environmental protection planning and other natural resources and cultural relics and other human resources protection and utilization planning.

Twentieth people's governments at all levels should fully consider the spatial layout of related tourism projects and facilities and the requirements for construction land when compiling the overall land use planning and urban and rural planning. The planning and construction of transportation, communication, water supply, power supply, environmental protection and other infrastructure and public service facilities should take into account the needs of tourism development.

Article 21 The use of natural resources, cultural relics and other cultural resources in tourism must strictly abide by the provisions of relevant laws and regulations, meet the requirements of resources, ecological protection and cultural relics safety, respect and maintain local traditional culture and customs, safeguard the regional integrity, cultural representation and regional particularity of resources, and consider the needs of military facilities protection. The relevant competent departments should strengthen the supervision and inspection of resource protection and tourism utilization.

Legal basis: Article 4 of the Tourism Law of the People's Republic of China should follow the principle of unity of social benefits, economic benefits and ecological benefits. The state encourages all kinds of market players to make rational use of tourism resources according to law on the premise of effectively protecting tourism resources. Tourist attractions built with public resources should reflect public welfare.