The official website for the 2009 China Tourism Industry Festival, www.ctif.travel, has now opened registering more than 500 000 hits so far.

The bilingual website covers various aspects, including dynamics, services, movements, official notices, and yellow pages.

Netizens can not only get the information on the catering, living, transporting and shopping in Tianjin, but also learn the related news, such as the First China Tourism apparel, China Tourism Industry Expo, Destination Fair and Travel Products Fair.

Hosted by the State Tourism Bureau and the Tianjin People's Government, and co-sponsored by China's tourism industry, the 2009 China Tourism Industry Festival will be held from September 19, 2009 to 22 in Tianjin.

The festival, covering an area of 26,000 square meters with 1500 standard booths, includes the theme gala, tourism summit of regional cooperation, exhibition of tourism products, tourism souvenir, tourism destination marketing, tourism investment, tourism human resource exchanges and other activities to create an international tourist destination and distribution center.

The travel service agencies and airlines will be invited to the tourism industry festival as well as representatives from the provinces and cities around the Bohai Sea and other industry experts will attend the tourism summit of regional cooperation.

By Xie Fang