The ministry of culture and tourism of the autonomous region recently issued the programme for the supplementary implementation of the inland tourism award 2025, which is being interpreted as follows in order to further improve the promotion of tourist entry:
Background and rationale
On 13 january 2025, the office of the state council issued a series of measures to further foster the flourishing culture of new growth points and tourism consumption (2025] no. 2) explicitly “optimal immigration tourism policy, enhanced dissemination of information and service security, and adequate use of existing transit exemption policies and regional entry ban policies.” in june 2024, 16 departments, including the ministry of culture and tourism, jointly issued the inbound tourism promotion plan (2024-2026); on 27 september 2023, the office of the state council issued a number of measures to unlock the potential of tourism consumption and promote the development of quality tourism (2023). (36) in connection with the programme for the implementation of the year of guangxi tourism 2025, our office has decided to implement a policy to promote the revival and development of the tourist industry in guangxi
Time frame for implementation
1 january 2025-31 december 2025
Iii. Categories, conditions and criteria for awards
(i) incentives for hospitality to visitors from abroad (including hong kong and australia): a temporary incentive for tourists from abroad (including hong kong and australia) to travel to the travel agency to visit the country. Travel agencies receive tourists from overseas (including hong kong and australia) who travel to guiang for no less than two nights in guangxi, rank travel agencies with more than 5,000 total arrivals throughout the year, and reward the top 10 travel agencies with a bonus of $200,000 for the first to third, $150,000 for the fourth to the seventh and $100,000 for the eighth to the tenth。
(ii) long-distance market development incentives: temporary incentives for travel agencies that receive tourists from countries other than asean and the hong kong/australian region to travel to guiang. Travel agencies receive tourists from outside the countries of asean and the hong kong/australian region who spend no less than two nights in guangxi, ranking the total number of visitors to this category for more than 1,000 travel agents throughout the year, giving each of the top five travel agencies an incentive of $100,000。
(iii) travel grants to travel abroad (including hong kong and australasia) for promotions: temporary grants to travel abroad (including australasia) to participate in or conduct outreach activities for the guangxi brigades. Where tourism enterprises outside the country (including hong kong and australia) promote the resources, products, etc. Of the guangxi brigade through the purchase of space or rental of space for international tourism fairs, participation in or organization of cultural tour fairs, exhibitions, publicity events, etc., a single subsidy of up to $40,000 is granted to individual enterprises on the basis of the cost of a single promotion, which is based on an invoice. The benefit is declared in quarterly instalments and paid on a first-come, first-served basis, on the basis of the time of dispatch of the first-served paper materials by the municipal departments of the civil service, until the use of the grant funds is completed。
Iv. Supplementary reporting requests
(i) a declaration system is in place whereby tourism enterprises that declare awards are required to submit applications and relevant information, and applications and related information are not submitted as required or are inadmissible as not being in compliance with the application procedure。
(ii) information on all travel teams that declare incentives must be entered into the national tourism regulatory service platform (hereinafter referred to as the tourism regulatory service), not into the tourism regulatory service system, or if the relevant declarations do not match the data entered into the tourism regulatory platform, they must be declared invalid and not subsidized。
V. How to declare awards (specific steps)
Reception of visitors from abroad (including hong kong/australia) to chong cui, long-distance market development: travel agents are ranked on the basis of statistics from the tourism regulatory platform for receiving visitors throughout the year — the cultural and tourism department of the guangxi autonomous region's integrated market administration authority approves the situation — the list of travel agents is published — the travel agencies submit their approvals based on the ranking list — the third-party agencies review and advise — the party group of 6 (office) considers — 7 public announcements — the award of supplementary funds。
Tourism enterprises travel abroad (including hong kong and australia) to promote promotion grants: tourism enterprises declare — first instance in the cultural and tourism administrations of the municipalities — review by the cultural and tourism department of the autonomous communities — review by the third party agency — review and issue an opinion — review by the 5-chamber party (office) committee — public announcement — award funds are allocated。
