On Regional Trade Liberalization Of Tourism Services

Tourism service trade is known as "eternal sunrise industry" and plays an increasingly important role in modern service industry.With its increasingly rapid development,the demand for market expansion is also increasingly strong.Liberalization is the inevitable requirement and direction of industry development,while doha round negotiations have repeatedly fallen into deadlock.Since the 1990 s,the world pattern has developed from two-polarization to multi-polarization,and regional economic integration has developed rapidly.In order to adapt to this change,tourism service trade has put forward new requirements for international rules.Since China’s accession to the WTO,tourism industry has been playing a leading role in opening up and trade liberalization.Therefore,promoting regional tourism service trade liberalization is also the best strategic choice for China to participate in the international division of labor.This paper focuses on the status quo of China’s regional strategic layout,firstly analyzes the global background of promoting regional tourism service trade liberalization,and introduces and explores the referential experience of countries or regions with a high degree of tourism openness.In view of the historical new starting point of China’s free trade zone construction,the paper puts forward that China should perfect its laws and regulations system in order to further open the regional market and realize the sustainable and healthy development of tourism service trade.Chapter one is the background analysis of regional tourism service trade liberalization.Firstly,it explores the opening rules of the coexistence of foreign tourism market barriers and liberalization."there is neither pure freedom nor pure unfreedom in the world".Starting from the historical source,it shows that multilateralism is not the result of historical inevitability,but a historical choice,and that multilateralism and regionalism cannot replace each other.Finally,it returns to the current background to explore the necessity and feasibility of regional tourism service trade,such as the flattening of global production network,the wide rise of regional trade agreements and the stagnation of multilateral negotiations and other international environments.In order to better illustrate the feasibility exploration of regional tourism service trade liberalization,the author,from the practical perspective of the establishment of apec and the establishment of east Asia free trade area,explained the exploration and attempt of various regions in the world to carry out negotiations at the regional level.The second chapter introduces the current situation and problems of regional liberalization of tourism service trade in China.Firstly,the development status of China’s tourism service trade liberalization is briefly summarized from the perspectives of regional agreements,the development of service trade and foreign investment.Then it affirms the innovation of China’s regional agreement on tourism service trade,such as the separation and clear definition of investment and trade,the attempt to build an emergency guarantee mechanism,and the establishment of a policy review mechanism.Finally,it analyzes the existing problems in the process of regional liberalization.In addition to its inherent defects,there are also problems such as China’s layout of regional arrangements still needs to be strengthened,"visa difficulties" to be solved urgently,and the lack of supporting legal system.The third chapter introduces the international tourism power in promoting regional liberalization measures for reference.The author mainly from the convenience of the Schengen Agreement,Australia’s active international negotiations attitude and perfect legal system of Singapore three aspects,multi-channel,multiangle seek experience for reference,in order to solve our country citizen "visa is difficult",weak legal system and international bargaining position is weak,to promote China’s tourism service trade in the international market further opening up and development.Chapter four probes into the legal approaches to promote the liberalization of China’s tourism service trade.First of all,we should maintain the primacy of the WTO multilateral framework so as to better balance the discourse power between developed and developing countries.Then CAFTA was taken as an example to discuss the simplification of entry and exit procedures in order to promote exchanges and cultural communication between China and foreign countries.And from the aspects of trade partners,agreement contents and strengthening the open attitude,this paper puts forward corresponding countermeasures to strengthen the regional cooperation of China’s tourism service trade.Finally,it calls for the promulgation of special legislation to promote international tourism,so as to focus on foreign tourism and provide stronger legal support for tourism service trade.