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Shandong:A pilot for tourism destination system
By Ju chuanjiang and Zhao Ruixue (China Daily Shandong Bureau)
Updated: 2009-05-15 17:41

The National Tourism Administration (NTA) listed Shandong as a pilot province in a project constructing a system of national tourism destination.

The news came with a memorandum of building a close cooperation mechanism between NTA and Shandong provincial government endorsed on May 15th.

The memorandum called for the two parties to work closely to promote the work of constructing a tourism destination system in Shandong. NTA will make every effort to support the province's work in building itself into a highly tourism-featured province.

Shandong will develop tourism into a pillar industry of the province's economy and foster a series of comprehensive tourism enterprises to form a tourism cluster with various features.