The China National Tourism Administration has signed a cooperation agreement with International SOS to jointly draw up national standards for travel emergency assistance services.

Hangzhou-based Elan Inn is offering a carbon rewards program to encourage guests to save energy and help reduce carbon emissions.

The China National Tourism Administration has issued a notice that the year 2009 has been declared Chinese Eco-tourism year with a slogan of "be a green traveler and experience eco-civilization".

The School of Hotel and Tourism Management of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University was has offered assistance in the tourism recovery efforts spearheaded by the China National Tourism Administration and the Sichuan Tourism Administration in the disaster areas stricken by the earthquake that hit Sichuan in May 2008. Associate Professor Dr Hanqin Zhang spoke on [...]

The China National Tourism Administration has announced that it will give extensive support to the Sichuan earthquake disaster area to revive their tourism industry.

After investigating domestic and overseas tour groups in the earthquake disaster areas and assembling statistics of tourism organs of each area, the China National Tourism Administration has published the number of tour groups affected by the earthquake — a total of 506 with 10,386 tourists.

In response to the 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Wenchuan County, Sichuan Province, China National Tourism Administration has issued an emergency notice, asking travel agencies to stop organizing tour groups to the earthquake areas.