Inner Mongolia Border City Saw 10 Percent Growth in Tourism Last Year
Xu Wei
DATE:  Mar 14 2018
/ SOURCE:  Yicai
 Inner Mongolia Border City Saw 10 Percent Growth in Tourism Last Year Inner Mongolia Border City Saw 10 Percent Growth in Tourism Last Year

(Yicai Global) March 14 -- Hulunbuir, a prefecture-level city in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on the borders of both Mongolia and Russia, received 17.2 million tourists last year, up 10.8 percent annually following efforts to set up an integrated market involving visitors from both neighboring countries.

Of the 17.2 million visitors in 2017, 715,600 of them stayed overnight in the city, marking an increase of 6.35 percent from the year before, China News Service reported representatives of a local tourism work conference as saying.

Located in the northeastern part of Inner Mongolia, Hulunbuir shares some 1,733 kilometers of borders with Russia and Mongolia, and is home to one of the four largest areas of grasslands globally.

Hulunbuir officially became a member of the China, Russia, Mongolia Tea Road international tourism alliance in 2017, as a means of boosting cross-border tourism and the local transport sector.

The city aims to further strengthen tourism-related cooperation with Russia and Mongolia this year, said the director of Hulunbuir's Tourism Development Committee.

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