Yunnan unveils first batch gf five-star hot spring hotels

Zhanjiang in Guangdong province is to spend 9 billion yuan to build the Leiqiong Tourism Industrial Zone that will include 24 projects with investments of over 20 million yuan each, and 15 with investment greater than 100 million yuan each.

Officials from Zhanjiang's tourism administrative department said the Leiqiong Tourism Industrial Zone includes five-star hotels, a yacht club, the development of uninhabited islands, the Kangqisai Happy World Tourism Area, and the Han Dynasty Sandun Tourism Area.

Of the projects included in the tourism industrial zone, five five-star hotels in downtown Zhanjiang are under construction and will open in 2010 or 2011; the Vacation Te Cheng resort will get an investment of 500 million yuan over the next three years for further development; and Kangqisai Happy World Tourism Area, with a total investment of 1.5 billion yuan, will have water park and agricultural tourism industrial park.

Ruan Risheng, the mayor of Zhanjiang, said the government will establish and implement a Zhanjiang Tourism Industry Development Plan to focus on the construction of 14 key tourism projects including Huguangyan Hot Spring Resort, Xiashan Fisherman's Wharf and the European Style Street.