China Travel Service
The China Travel Service , or CTS for short , is the tourism and travel authority of the People's Republic of China . It was founded on November 19, 1949, around one and a half months after the proclamation of the People's Republic of China, and deals with the marketing of China to the rest of the world, with the aim of promoting and developing the tourism industry. It was a subordinate authority of the China National Tourism Administration (CNTA), which was dissolved in 2018 .
history
The first travel agency in China already existed in 1923; it was financed by the Shanghai Commercial and Saving Bank under its founder and general manager Chén Guāngfǔ , better known as KP Chen , and became independent in 1927. The early business of the first Chinese travel agency was to organize tickets for rail and sea traffic. As a result, smaller travel agencies were founded in China, almost all of which perished during the wars ( Chinese Civil War and Second Sino-Japanese War during World War II and also the Pacific War ). China's modern tourism emerged shortly after the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949. In the weeks after the state was proclaimed, the Chinese government gradually set up external offices to handle official diplomatic visits. During this time the China Travel Service was founded on November 19, 1949 . On July 1, 1951, the China Travel Service (Hong Kong) came under the control of the Bank of China . Another major travel agency was founded in 1954, the China International Travel Service (CITS). The predecessor organization of the China National Tourism Administration (CNTA), founded in 1982 and dissolved in 2018, was established in 1964 . However, during the three decades, inbound tourism was entirely directed by the Chinese government and intended for overseas Chinese as well as foreign officials.
In June 1973 the construction of the new CTS headquarters, a high-rise building at 77 Queen's Road Central, in the center of Hong Kong , was completed. On July 25, 1979, the agency began issuing homecoming permits to residents of Hong Kong and Macau . In 1983 the subsidiary Hong Kong Association of Travel Organizers Ltd. was established on the same company site . (HACTO), whereupon visits to Beijing and other cities on the Chinese mainland were increasingly paid for. From July 1984 the company was used by the immigration authorities as a registered service provider for the so-called Hong Kong tour . On October 4, 1984, the agency, known as China Travel Service (Hong Kong) Ltd. the Hotel Benito on Cameron Road in Tsim Sha Tsui , Kowloon , Hong Kong, which was the first purchase of its kind. Just a few months later, in April 1985, CTS HK Hotels Management Co. Ltd. founded. In July of the same year, China Travel Tours Transportation Services Ltd. founded. On August 28, 1985, HKCTS was given permission to build the Overseas Chinese Town in Shenzhen . The Overseas Chinese Town is a collection of tourist hotspots. Here you will find, among other things, the Window of the World miniature park, which opened in 1993, and the Splendid China Folk Village . The sister park Splendid China in Four Corners , Florida , which existed from 1993 to 2003 and was demolished from 2013 after several changes of ownership and marked by theft, vandalism and deterioration, also belonged to the China Travel Service .
Also in 1985 the China Travel Service (Hong Kong) Group was founded , which now comprised all previously founded companies. On May 5, 1987, the new building of the company headquarters was completed. In the same year, Taiwan began allowing strictly limited visits to mainland China. On July 21, 1987, the first group of tourists from mainland China (from Shanghai ) arrived in Hong Kong. In 1989 the first Singapore - Malaysia - Thailand tour for Chinese citizens was organized. In the following years, various other companies were founded, most of which also belong to the China Travel Service (Hong Kong) Group . The group also invested in other industries, including steel production . The Tangshan Guofeng Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. from the steel city of Tangshan has been a subsidiary of CTS since at least the 1990s. On July 11, 2001, China Travel Service (Hong Kong) received the Top Quality Diamond Award as Outstanding Corporate from the Hong Kong International Business Accelerate . In the same year, the CTS owned Nanjing Jinling Star Metropark Hotel opened in Nanjing ; In 2006 the Ocean Spring Resort opened in Qingdao . On April 16, 2006 the foundation stone was laid for the main building of the Shenzhen Port China Travel Service Co Ltd. at the port of Shenzhen. In April 2007 the so-called CTSHK Europe Tourism Town was officially opened on Qipan Mountain near Shenyang . On June 22, 2007, China Travel Service merged with China Travel Service (Hong Kong) and the China Travel Service Group was officially incorporated into the China Travel Service (Hong Kong) Group .
Numerous CTS employees are or have been active in political offices. For example, in the local elections in Hong Kong in 2015, six CTS employees were given seats on the district councils .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Closed attraction Splendid China to be demolished ( Memento from June 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 24, 2019
- ^ Eight winning councillors acknowledged as Chinese state enterprise employees , accessed on July 24, 2019