Finished touring Beijing already? As part of a development plan for Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei province, new bus routes are getting ready to start directly from Tiananmen Square.
These routes will pick up tourists and head directly to Shijiazhuang, Tangshan, and Cangzhou in North China’s Hebei province. A conference from August 4th to 5th pinned high hopes on this project, aiming to develop tourism industries via Beijing's now-powerful momentum.
Convenience will be higher than ever for tourists, but a consistency in management will also be more visible. It's a universal package that comes with a single website, an application and WeChat platform, as well as a trove of information, maps, and landmarks.
Tourists will likely find their wallets a little heavier at the end of the day, too. It's a three-in-one trip that comes with its own benefits. The project is tentatively ready to begin before 2015.
Tianjin, albeit not included in the bus routes, is working hard on its own tourism project: a joint resource-trading platform managed by the Tianjin Tourism Bureau and the Beijing Equity Exchange company. It will soon come to regulate all the tourism resources between Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei, overseeing investment, finance, and product launches, amongst other services.
An agreement was signed between Beijing and Tianjin on August 5, and has already entered into strategic alliances with the Hebei Tourism Bureau.Â