Xinhua reports that tourism officials from China and Turkey meeting at this week's China-Turkish Tourism Joint Committee in Beijing have vowed to strengthen tourism cooperation in order to stimulate the increase of visitors to each country.

Measures to be taken include promoting more regular and charterflights, inviting more tourism operators to visit each other's countries and holding annual conferences between the two tourism departments.

In order to better serve Chinese tourists, Turkey plans to increase the number of tourist guides and open more Chinese restaurants. Turkey has also launched a tourism information website in the Chinese language, said Atlilla Koc, Turkish minister of culture and tourism, at the meeting.