Sino-French Travel Service Operational in Beijing

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 ◆ Sino-French Travel Service Operational in Beijing

Beijing Capital Tourism Group established over the weekend a joint venture with France's ACCOR, the world's third biggest tourism group. This is the ninth Sino-foreign joint-venture travel services in China and also Beijing's first travel service in cooperation with an European country. The newly established travel service will work to attract more tourists from Europe and other parts of the world by introducing advanced computerized tourism management system and improving training of staff. It is reported that European tourists accounted for 23 percent of foreign tourists to China in 2000. ACCOR runs more than 3,500 hotels in over 90 countries and has business contacts with over 240 countries and regions.