Party building and official activities can be entrusted to travel agencies. On June 2, 20021year, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism issued the Notice on Strengthening Policy Support to Further Support the Development of Travel Agencies (hereinafter referred to as the Notice), encouraging state organs, enterprises, institutions and social organizations at all levels to carry out party building activities and official activities, and entrusting travel agencies to arrange transportation, accommodation, catering and meetings.
The circular puts forward specific requirements for alleviating the operational difficulties of travel agencies from three aspects: optimizing the market environment, implementing financial policies and making good use of inclusive assistance policies. In addition to encouraging state organs, enterprises and institutions to entrust travel agencies with party building and official activities, the Notice also encourages all localities to set up special funds for the transformation and upgrading of travel agencies. For travel agencies that meet the conditions for loan renewal, financial institutions are encouraged to handle normal loan renewal business under the principle of marketization and rule of law, and they are not allowed to blindly cherish loans, draw loans, break loans or pressure loans.
At the same time, travel agencies are supported to flexibly choose one way to pay the deposit according to their own operating conditions, including deposit, direct bank guarantee and bank policy guarantee, and the pilot areas can also use insurance to pay the deposit directly. Encourage financial institutions to innovate credit reporting methods, guide the expansion of credit loan support for travel agencies, and promote loans through loans.