China's 15th Five-Year Tourism Plan Strengthens Standards and Governance

Key points

• China's 15th Five-Year Plan for Building a Tourism Power explicitly calls for strengthening standards leadership, accelerating national standard development and revision, and strengthening implementation evaluation.
• The plan calls for promoting domestic and international standardization coordination and actively participating in international tourism standard setting.
• A standards system should be built with mandatory national standards, recommended national and industry standards, local standards, group standards and enterprise standards advancing together.
• Mandatory national standards should focus on key areas such as tourism safety and public health, setting safety boundaries.
• The smart tourism standards system should be improved, a study tourism standards system established, and the tourism toilet quality requirements and evaluation standard implemented.
• Standards should be embedded into market supervision, credit governance and public services, while international tourism standardization cooperation should be deepened.