On June 21st, Beijing will host the Olympics Tourism Promotion Conference. At that time, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Tourism, the Beijing Municipal Commission of Development and Reform, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce, and the Olympic Service Center of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) will introduce a series of key tourist info items, as well as projects currently under discussion. The city sightseeing bus collaborative project is amongst the projects that will be presented to attract enterprises from both home and abroad.

The city sightseeing bus project plans to carve out two fixed sightseeing itineraries–New Beijing and Old Beijing. The former will use double-floor sightseeing buses with folding tops. The itinerary includes Chang'an Street and the 2nd Ring Road, etc. Tourists will be able to appreciate New Beijing's modern charm. The Old Beijing itinerary will utilize open cars with much smaller dimensions, and will pass through Hutong, Shishahai, etc., highlighting Beijing folk-customs.

At the Beijing Olympics Tourism Promotion Conference, other key tourist info items will also be released and discussed. These items will focus on an introduction to the present supply and demand status of Beijing's housing facilities and its tendency in 2008, a discussion on bringing in foreign capital to manage low star-rated restaurants and hotels, a discussion on developing joint-venture travel agencies, and a discussion on counties' key tourism projects. Yanqing, Chaoyang, Miyun and Fangshan counties will hold large-scale tourist activities to propagandize key tourist items and attract foreign investment at the conference.

(Chinanews.cn April 22, 2005)