Three Ministries Issue Guidance on Optimizing Natural Resource Allocation for Orderly Tourism Devel…

China's Ministry of Natural Resources, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and National Forestry and Grassland Administration jointly issued guidance on optimizing natural resource allocation to promote orderly tourism development. The document covers spatial planning, land-use regulation, resource supply, reuse of existing space, and service supervision. It requires integrating 15th Five-Year Plan tourism spatial needs into the national territorial spatial planning 'one map', allows certain tourism support facilities outside urban development boundaries or managed under original land categories, supports eco-tourism activities such as camping, hiking, and study tours outside core protected ar…