Luohu promotes high-quality tourism development
According to its biweekly news brief held on Dec. 15, Luohu will release the first action plan among all districts in Shenzhen to promote high-quality development of its tourism industry from 2023 to 2025. It has published the supporting measures that it will carry out to fulfill the relevant plans.
The measures include providing subsidies totaling as much as 1 million yuan ($143,600) to attract prestigious tourism enterprises, as well as subsidies totaling 10 million yuan for investing in developing tourism industrial parks in Luohu.
Luohu aims to take full advantage of its geographic location to become a cluster zone for quality tourism enterprises. It also looks to become a tourist distribution center and a tourist destination for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
The district will actively build itself into a tourism product, innovation, and exhibition center, support local tourism enterprises to upgrade their ratings and rankings in the industry, encourage the development of local characteristic tourism products and routes, promote the growth of jewelry tourism, and develop supporting facilities and services.
At present, there are more than 470 travel agencies in Luohu, accounting for nearly 40% of Shenzhen’s total, among which 135 can handle overseas travel businesses, or nearly 60% of the city’s total.
Among the top 30 tourism agencies in Shenzhen, 19 are from Luohu.