男友太凶猛1v1高h,大地资源在线资源免费观看 ,人妻少妇精品视频二区,极度sm残忍bdsm变态

Global EditionASIA 中文雙語Fran?ais
China
Home / China / Society

Reform helps tourism sector spread its wings

By Cheng Si | China Daily | Updated: 2018-12-21 09:35
Share
Share - WeChat

Guiding light: Gao Zhiquan

"I think the nation's modern tourism first made a mark with the successful Beijing Asian Games in the early 1990s," said Gao Zhiquan, a former tour guide for China CYTS Tours who has been the company's vice-president since 2008.

"The sports gala gave Beijing and China recognition in the world and helped attract foreign visitors," the 52-year-old said.

In 1990, the Liaoning province native became a tour guide in Beijing after graduating from Pyongyang University of Construction and Building Materials Industries in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

However, the domestic market was not fully prepared for the surge in foreign tourists because the infrastructure, such as hotels and flights, was immature, Gao said.

"There was such a shortage of hotels of all kinds, let alone star-rated units, that we often scrambled for hotel rooms against rivals, such as China International Travel Services," he recalled.

"Back then, the Yanjing Hotel in Beijing was the most popular, and all the guides were jealous of their peers who successfully booked rooms there.

"It was the same with flights; tickets were in short supply, while planes were often delayed. We guides were never sure about tour schedules because we were only informed that the airline had provided travelers with tickets for flights overseas the night before departure."

Gao, who has been engaged in the tourist industry for nearly 30 years, was still thrilled when he recalled a 1994 trip from Dalian, Liaoning, to Yanji city in Jilin province to accompany a group from the Republic of Korea.

"There were more than 100 people in the group, and the plane, a Tupolev Tu-154, was fully booked, so there were no seats for me or the Korean group leader," he said.

"There were only a handful of flights at the time. You might wait two days for the next flight if you missed your plane, so the Korean group leader and I squatted in the plane's aisle and held on to the seat belts of passengers sitting on either side. It was a breakneck experience."

At the time, outbound tourism was in its infancy compared with the boom in inbound tourism in the early 1990s.

"Delegations authorized by the government were the core of outbound tourism, and countries in Southeast Asia were first choices at the time," he recalled.

"Before 1993, passports were only single-use items, so people had to apply for another if they went abroad again," he said.

Applying for a passport was a headache as it required piles of papers, including the traveler's ID card, household registration details, an invitation from someone in the destination country and financial statements.

"Things have changed now," Gao said.

"The passport application procedure has been greatly simplified, so only an ID card is needed, and passports are valid for 10 years. Traveling overseas is now a regular leisure activity for Chinese people."

|<< Previous 1 2 3 4 5 Next   >>|
Top
BACK TO THE TOP
English
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
 
主站蜘蛛池模板: 遂溪县| 海安县| 高安市| 芜湖县| 上犹县| 丹巴县| 淮滨县| 中西区| 和政县| 武邑县| 沛县| 宁阳县| 大余县| 高安市| 广宁县| 仪陇县| 屏山县| 富宁县| 凯里市| 忻城县| 花莲市| 大方县| 东兰县| 沂南县| 山东省| 遂昌县| 岢岚县| 武胜县| 皮山县| 海丰县| 嵊州市| 景宁| 鹿邑县| 朝阳区| 道孚县| 松阳县| 黎平县| 昌图县| 榆林市| 商城县| 伊通|