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Tixa Internet Technology Company, a provider of Web-empowered products in China, and New Century International Hotel Management Company Limited have announced a strategic cooperation on 3G.

According to the agreement signed by the two parties, Tixa will help New Century Hotels & Resorts to build its wireless Internet marketing system to delve into the potential market with 3G users.

Currently Gehua New Century Hotel Beijing already has its own 3G mobile portal.

Zhongtian Jinxiu Business Hotel recently opened in Tianjin’s Dagang Economic and Technological Development Zone.

The hotel consists of three main buildings, featuring guestrooms, dining outlets, leisure facilities, entertainment venues, and a convention center, with a total floor area of 28,000 square meters. It is designed for large-scale conventions, cocktail parties and other events with modern MICE facilities such as simultaneous interpretation equipment, wireless Internet access and multimedia equipment.

The hotel is invested in by Tianjin Zhongtian Jinxiu Group, and built in accordance with four-star standards.

From October 1, 2009, citizens in 12 Chinese provinces, regions, and municipalities will be able to visit the United States through tour groups.

According to a document published by the Chinese National Tourism Administration, the 12 provinces are Shanxi, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Anhui, Shandong, Guangxi, Hainan, Chongqing, Sichuan, Yunnan, and Shaanxi.

This is the beginning of the second phase for Chinese tour groups visiting the United States. Including the first batch of nine provinces — Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Hubei, Hunan, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Guangdong — citizens from a total of 21 Chinese provinces will be able to travel to the USA in tour groups.

Travel agencies in these provinces that are capable of operating outbound travel will soon be approved by CNTA to organize tour groups to the USA.

The Economic Development League of the Huaihai Economic Zone has set up a tourism branch in Baozhou, Anhui.

The Huaihai Economic Zone covers 20 prefectural cities of Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan, and Anhui which feature abundant historical and natural tourism resources. It is expected that the establishment of the Tourism League will help promote tourism in the region.

According to the league’s charter, a cooperation and exchange platform will be set up between the member cities to expand the sales channels for tourism products, help create tourism brand images for each city, and improve the reputation of the cities involved.

The guideline for the development of tourism and the boosting of international tourism cooperation of Beibuwan Bay, the Beibuwan Bay Tourism Development Program, has gained the approval of a committee of experts in Beijing.

Beibuwan Bay covers the coastal areas of Guangxi, Leizhou Peninsula in Guangdong, and western Hainan Island in China, as well as the northern coastal areas of Vietnam. According to the program, by 2020, Beibuwan will be among the world’s top tourism destinations. To reach this goal, experts suggest a tourism pattern of “one core area, two tourism circles, three polar regions, and five development axes.”

The one core development area refers to Nanning, Fangchenggang, Qinzhou and Beihai in Guangxi, featuring cross-border style, coastal leisure and the landscape. The two circles include the circum-Beibuwan Bay tourism circle, which mainly covers Nanning, Fangchenggang, Qinzhou, Beihai, Chongzuo and Yulin in Guangxi, Haikou, Danzhou, Linzhou, Chengmai, Changjiang, Dongfang and Ledong in western Hainan, Zhanjiang in Guangdong, and Hai Phong city and Quang Ninh province in Vietnam; and the pan-Beibuwan Bay circle covering the pan-Pear River Delta and ASEAN countries such as Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei, The Philippines, Thailand, and Cambodia.

The three polar regions refers to the Beibuwan Economic Zone in Guangxi, Hainan International Tourism Island, and the Tonkin Gulf Coastal Economic Belt in Vietnam. The five axis include the Nanning-Hanoi-Ho Chi Minh-Phnom Penh-Bangkok-Kuala Lumpur-Singapore international development axis, the Nanning-Beihai (Fangchenggang, Qinzhou)-Hainan International Tourism Island axis, the Nanning-Guangdong interprovincial tourism development axis, and the Beihai (Fangchenggang, Qinzhou)-Nanning-Liuzhou-Guilin axis, and the grand southwest passageway axis.