{"id":11048,"date":"2009-03-12T05:31:12","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T21:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/en\/?p=11048"},"modified":"2009-03-12T05:31:12","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T21:31:12","slug":"cnta-travel-coupons-should-be-used-to-stimulate-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2009\/03\/12\/11048\/","title":{"rendered":"CNTA: Travel Coupons Should Be Used To Stimulate Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shao Qiwei, the director of the China National Tourism Administration, told local media that the tourism industry of China will start to issue travel coupons to encourage tourism in 2009.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Shao said that tourism is an industry that is both vulnerable to negative incidents and strong in that it can resume business quickly after accidents. <\/p>\n<p>Shao disclosed that CNTA will encourage travel companies to issue travel coupons and launch travel incentives, travel consumption credits, and travel promotions on a trial basis to stimulate domestic demand this year. In addition, it will focus on travel markets as holiday travel, rural travel, eco-travel, and leisure travel.<\/p>\n<p>According to Shao, China hosted 109 million tourists during the 2009 Spring Festival Golden Week and this was an increase of 24.7% compared with the same period in the previous year. Tourism revenue during this period reached CNY50.93 billion, up 23.1% over the same period of 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shao Qiwei, the director of the China National Tourism Administration, told local media that the tourism industry of China will start to issue travel coupons to encourage tourism in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[16341,15351,15352,16342,14310,16343,12834,12814,12782],"class_list":["post-11048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-eco-travel","tag-golden-week","tag-holiday","tag-leisure-travel","tag-promotion","tag-rural-travel","tag-spring-festival","tag-statistics","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}