{"id":31786,"date":"2007-02-06T08:56:42","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T00:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2007\/02\/06\/3085-shanghai-will-issue-12-million-free-travel-passports\/"},"modified":"2007-02-06T08:56:42","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T00:56:42","slug":"shanghai-will-issue-12-million-free-travel-passports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2007\/02\/06\/31786\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai Will Issue 1.2 Million Free Travel Passports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seeking to spur interest in rural travel and increase travel consumption, Shanghai has hooked onto a marketing gimmick and begun to issue a new original passport called \"Rural Holiday Travel Passport\".<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The holders of this kind of travel passport can not only get information about nearby rural travel spots, including contact details and open hours, but also can receive discounts on entrance tickets and join in lucky draws with the stamps from those travel spots.<\/p>\n<p>At present, rural travel is popular in Shanghai. The 30 rural travel spots in Shanghai received 3.91 million tourists in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Shanghai will issue six other types of travel passports this year for \"red\" travel, science exhibitions, food, shopping, city travel and cultural exhibitions,. Those will totally involve 140 scenic spots in Shanghai.<\/p>\n<p>The Shanghai municipal tourism committee is planning to issue 1.2 million of these types of travel passports for free to citizens and tourists within the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeking to spur interest in rural travel and increase travel consumption, Shanghai has hooked onto a marketing gimmick and begun to issue a new original passport called \"Rural Holiday Travel Passport\".<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-31786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31786","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=31786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}