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Original title: The Ministry of Culture and Tourism published new regulations for the online travel industry to receive fiscal, tax and financial support
Source: Shanghai Securities News
Reporter Li Yanzheng Wang Wenyan
The “Provisional Regulation on the administration of online tourist exploitation services” (hereinafter the “Regulation”) recently issued by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism proposes that cultural and tourist authorities at all levels actively coordinate the departments relevant to supporting online tourism in terms of finance, taxes, banking and insurance. Industrial development.
The “Regulation” also proposed that cultural and tourism authorities at all levels should take full advantage of the active role of online tour operators in promoting tourism destinations, building tourism public service systems, applying tourism big data, the reservation of tickets for scenic places and flow control, etc., to promote high-quality tourism development.
Wang Tianxing, deputy director of the Center for Culture and Tourism Policy and Regulation at Beijing University of International Studies, said in an interview with a Shanghai Securities News reporter that after the outbreak, the tourism industry has been hit by an impact. without precedents. In order to help a large number of small and medium tourism enterprises to resume their work and business, the relevant leading companies have provided a lot of support to small and medium tourism enterprises on their platforms. If there is no support from the state in terms of finances, taxes, finances, etc., it will be difficult for these leading companies to support themselves with their own strength.
Cheng Chaogong, Chief Researcher at the Tongcheng Research Institute, also told reporters: “As a major player in the new digital tourism infrastructure, we greatly need the support of national policies. These policies not only provide political guarantees for our technological innovation, They also help to fully perform OTAs such as Cheng Yilong play their main leadership role in tourism big data applications, scenic ticket reservations and flow control, thus driving the digital transformation of the entire tourism industry. “.
By sending policy dividends to online travel operators, the “Regulations” also set stringent requirements for the entire industry.
The “Regulation” proposes that online travel operators must provide true and accurate travel service information and must not engage in false advertising. Those who have not obtained quality standards and credit ratings will not use relevant titles and brands. The platform operators will distinguish between autonomous businesses and businesses carried out by operators on the platform in a visible way.
Online travel operators will guarantee the proper evaluation rights of tourists, and will not shield or erase the evaluations of their products and services by tourists without authorization, they will not mislead, induce, substitute or force the evaluations of tourists. The evaluations of the tourists will be kept and reported to The public is open.
Online travel operators must not abuse technical means such as big data analysis to establish unfair business conditions based on tourist consumption records, travel preferences, etc., and violate the legitimate rights and interests of tourists. Online tour operators will assist cultural and tourism authorities in managing excursions at unreasonable prices and will not provide them with commercial opportunities.
The “Regulations” will enter into force on October 1, 2020.
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