To Attract Tourists, Beijing Is Expected To Introduce A Tax Refund Policy For Shopping.

This year, Beijing It is expected to introduce a tax rebate policy for tourism shopping, facilitate visa implementation, and implement the 72 hour transit visa free policy to expand the attractiveness of inbound tourism. This is a reporter learned yesterday from the city's tourism work conference.

According to Zhou Zhengyu, director of the Municipal Tourism Commission, this year Beijing will increase the publicity and promotion efforts of the 72 hour transit visa free policy, and research and develop supporting tourism products. To this end, Beijing will further improve its supporting policies and strive to launch tourism shopping this year. Departure tax refund The policy is to facilitate visa facilitation and establish a market promotion system suitable for modern tourism promotion to attract more inbound tourists.

In 2014, Beijing will focus on Building 5 to 10 distinctive tourist towns with distinctive features and functions, so as to promote the development of tourism industry and further enlarge the effect of tourism functional areas. Among them, the project of Miyun ancient North Water Town and Pinggu landscape garden will be open this year, and several complex projects are under construction.

In recent years, due to the global economic downturn, geopolitical instability, intensified competition in the international market, the continued appreciation of the renminbi, and fog and haze, the Beijing inbound tourism market is facing serious challenges. In order to reverse the situation of inbound tourism, Beijing will focus on urban tourism and strengthen its efforts to overseas professional traveler. Market promotion We should innovate overseas marketing mechanism, increase the promotion of the traditional core markets such as the United States, Europe and South Korea, as well as Australia, India and other Asia Pacific emerging markets, and achieve a smooth rebound in the inbound tourism market by expanding the brand influence of Beijing's international tourism city.

According to statistics, the total number of tourists in Beijing in 2013 was 252 million, an increase of 9% over the previous year, and the total tourism revenue was 396 billion 320 million yuan, an increase of 9.3% over the previous year. Tourism investment has increased rapidly, and the total investment of the tourism development fund has reached 720 million yuan, and the social capital of 7 billion yuan has been invested in the tourism industry in Beijing. In 2014, the total number and total revenue of Beijing tourism will increase by 9% year-on-year, and tourism shopping and catering consumption will account for 25% of the total.

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The tax rebate policy refers to the policy of refund of tax rebates carried and exported by overseas tourists at the designated rebate shops.

On the morning of December 27, 2010, a press conference was held in Hainan to carry out the pilot project of tax refund for foreign tourists shopping in Haikou. The tax refund policy for overseas passengers has been officially launched in Hainan since January 1, 2011.

The basic process of the tax rebate policy includes four parts: overseas travellers shopping and application for tax rebates, customs inspection confirmation, tax rebate agency tax rebates and centralized tax rebate settlement, and overseas passengers involve only the first three links. At present, the starting point for refund of tax rebates for foreign tourists is 800 yuan, and the tax rebate rate is 11%. Foreign tourists refer to foreigners and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan compatriots who live in China for no more than 183 days.