To develop tourism in the Three Gorges Dam region China will invest RMB26.9 billion between 2007 and 2020. The funding is aimed at developing tourism in the region to provide jobs for local people.

The forecast is this investment will generate a RMB20 billion return, or 24.7% of the area’s gross domestic product, by 2020.

Li Chunming, vice-governor of China’s Hubei province, is reported as saying that booming tourism will provide jobs and economic growth without posing a threat to the fragile ecological environment.

The money will be used to improve tourist ferry services along the valley, build roads and docks to form a traffic network and improve other tourist facilities around the Three Gorges Dam.

Spanning the Yangtze River, the hydroelectric dam is the largest structure of its kind in the world, more than five times the size of the Hoover Dam.
Source: Opodo

The MICE market (meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions) has become increasingly important to the business of China’s hotels and the tourist destination of Sanya Bay on Hainan Island has been active in tapping into this market.

Several hotels and resorts on the island have joined up with the Sanya Tourism Development Administration to launch a new MICE brochure to show the island’s facilities and to compete with other destinations. The nine resorts are:

Hilton Sanya Resort & Spa
Crowne Plaza Sanya
HNA Resort Sanya
Holiday Inn Sanya Bay Resort
Horizon Resort & Spa
Resort Intime
Yalong Bay Mangrove Tree Resort
Sanya Marriott Resort & Spa
Sheraton Sanya Resort 
 

Dirk de Cuyper, General Manager of Hilton Sanya Resort & Spa, said, ‘It is the strategy of resorts in Sanya to assist event planners and companies to ensure their events deliver their objectives as well as provide a memorable tropical experience …  Sanya is a hot spot for meetings and events of all different shapes and sizes’.
Source: PR Hilton Sanya Resort & Spa