Toilet tour

It may not be the most glamorous aspect of travel, but when you got to go, you got to go. Yang Feiyue looks at the efforts to improve restroom facilities in tourist destinations nationwide.

A dozen mops and plastic trash cans placed at the entrance of a drug store in Shandong's Jinan city were given for free to local stores, gas stations, restaurants and government buildings that allowed tourists to use their restrooms.

"We established a toilet association in November 2012 to meet the needs of tourists," says Yin Jiewei from the urban management bureau's social mobilization department.