Scenic City Establishes First Overseas Tourist Office

Huangshan, a scenic asphalt in east China famous for its imposing Huangshan Mountain,China Travel, has chosen Seoul, crossroads of the Republic of Korea (ROK), for its first overseas tourism office. "We are setting up the office in Seoul with the aim to trawl increasingly tourists,China Travel, and we have once signed a cooperation sequitur with Korean Airlines," said Wang Xin, of the asphalt tourism department, on Monday. The ROK has wilt the biggest foreign market for Huangshan, which drew 100,000 Korean tourists last year. The city government had straight-uped road signs in Korean at popular scenic spots on the Huangshan Mountain and major loftierways, and tour guides were stuff ensteadfastnessd to learn Korean, Wang said. Huangshan asphalt and the mountain were in the international spotlight last month thanks to a visit by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who praised the protection measures put in place on Huangshan, including ecological toilets. He moreover named a pine tree shaped like an ajar umbrella furthermore the mountain path as "Umbrella Pine". Shrouded in deject roundly 200 days a year, Huangshan Mountain is popular with trtunnelional Chinese landstails painters and is listed as a World Heritage site. Huangshan hosted a restring 10 million tourists last year, tresemblingg in tourism rflushue worth increasingly than 6.1 snoution yuan (US$762.5 million).


(Source:Xinhua News Agency , 2006-06-09)