Help the tourism industry to recover and develop – China – Dahua.com

Xinhua News Agency, Guangzhou, March 26. The reporter learned from the Guangdong Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism that Guangdong has recently introduced 7 special relief and support measures for the tourism industry, from expanding market operation space, increasing financial support, and providing diversified insurance for tourism In terms of products, focus on reducing operating costs, and increase financial support, it will help the tourism industry to recover and develop.

A few days ago, the General Office of the Guangdong Provincial Government issued the “Several Measures of Guangdong Province to Promote the Recovery and Development of Difficult Industries in the Service Industry”. Special relief and support measures for the five industries of road, water, railway transportation and civil aviation.

In response to the current lack of demand in the tourism market, measures are proposed to encourage party and government organs at all levels, enterprises, institutions and social groups to entrust travel agencies to carry out activities such as party building, public affairs, trade unions, and exhibitions, and appropriately increase the proportion of advance payments. At the same time, when the government purchases services such as accommodation, conferences, and catering, the regulations on the amount of expenditure should be strictly enforced, and relevant enterprises should not be restricted from participating in government procurement based on star ratings and ownership.

In view of the common problem of insufficient funds in tourism enterprises, the measures are proposed to guide financial institutions to increase credit input and appropriately increase the loan amount for key cultural and tourism market players that meet the conditions and are expected to have good development prospects. Encourage banking financial institutions to innovate credit investigation methods, expand credit loan support, and promote loan-to-loan repayments based on the characteristics and asset characteristics of enterprises in travel agencies, tourism and performing arts and other fields. Encourage qualified tourism enterprises to issue corporate credit bonds and expand diversified financing channels for tourism enterprises.

The measures propose to provide tourism enterprises with diversified insurance protection capabilities, and encourage insurance institutions to optimize the process of underwriting and claim settlement services, strengthen insurance protection capabilities, and enrich the supply of cultural and travel insurance products based on the actual operating conditions of travel agencies and other cultural tourism enterprises. Encourage insurance institutions to develop insurance products and services that meet the needs of tourism risk protection.

In addition, the measure proposes to continue to implement the travel agency’s temporary refund of tourism service quality guarantee policy, and to further increase the temporary refund ratio on the basis of maintaining an 80% temporary refund ratio for eligible travel agencies. Carry out the pilot work of replacing the cash or bank guarantee to pay the tourism service quality deposit with insurance. At the same time, it is proposed that the Guangdong Provincial Financial Coordination Fund will be used as a bailout and support fund for cultural tourism enterprises to support cultural tourism enterprises and cultural tourism consumption promotion activities.