Chinese travel agents not fined for Vatican tours: tourism authority
2017-12-02 09:53:47 source：Global Times
December 1, 2017
China's tourism authority on Friday denied fining travel agents for organizing tours of the Vatican and Palau.
The news was "untrue," the National Tourism Administration (NTA) said in a statement emailed to the Global Times on Friday.
The denial came in response to a notice issued on November 20 by Nanjing-based website ctripc.com that two rival travel agents Tuniu and Tongcheng were fined more than 300,000 yuan ($45,562) for organizing group tours of the Vatican and Palau, a western Pacific archipelago country of over 500 islands in the Micronesia region.
Chinese travel agents are prohibited from organizing group tours to countries and regions not included on a list of 127 countries and regions, the NTA's statement said without elaborating further. The Vatican and Palau are not on the list.
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