Touring service agency and facilities

Travel agency
　　 There are over 100 travel agencies in Hunan. It can be divided into three parts, the first class, the second class and the third class, according to the differences of their serving range.
The first class travel agency
　　 The first class travel agency is the agency who can go abroad or go to Hong Kong and Macao to orginise and receive foreigner to come to China, which is including . The first class travel agency in Hunan province are the local CITS,Hunan Oveases Travel Co., and CITS Changsha and Hengyang . The local CITS The local CITS was founded in 1959 with the approval of the certain department. There are several parts in it, including office, Japan department, Europe and America department, Asia department, overseas touring office, multiple business center, domestic touring office, trading office, booking center and other offices, including a branch office in the famous touring area, Wulingyuan. It is under the leadership of the province directly. The English name for it is “CHINA INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL SERVICE HUNAN”，with the short form,“CITSHN”. The capacity of CITSHN and the guide are strong. There are nearly 60 guides, and the language covers English, Japanese, German, French, Russian, Spanish, Cantonese dialect and Minnan dialect. It is mainly in charge of the international travel business, and it can provide the relevant services, such as international meeting, booking the hotel, arrange the tickets for plane or train, touring consultation, and so forth.

The second class travel agency
　　The second class travel agency just receive the foreigner and overseas Chinese, and compatriots from HongKong, Macao and Taiwan province. The agency has no right to go abroad to attract tourists.
　　 There are 30 second class travel agencies in Hunan. Most of them are with excellent guides, rich receiving experience, and wide tourism connections, such as China Trval service Hunan,Hunan Youth Travel Service,Hunan Staff and Workers Travel Service,CITS Changsha Changsha Railway Travel Service ,so on and so forth. On administration, they belong to different departments, such as tourism, foreign affairs, overseas Chinese affairs,youth league and railway. On business, the mainly under the charge of three tourism group. They are the branch offices of these three travel agencies in Hunan .
　　 Hunan CTS The agency serves for overseas Chinese, compatriots from HongKong, Macau, and Taiwan province
China Youth Travel Service Hunan Branch was founded in 1980. The guides here are well-trained and young. It is one of the major travel agencies in Hunan. A It can receive overseas Chinese, compartriots from HongKong, Macau and Taiwan province to visit their families or make business. It provides the services such as handling the visa, booking tickets domestic or overseas, reserving the rooms and so forth.
　Apart these, Hunan Staff and Workers Travel Service,Changsha Railway Travel Service and the branch offices of CITS and CTS in Hunan also have their characteristic and superiority. The scenic routes of the province and of the country can make the tourists enjoy the most famous scenery in China. It wins favor of the tourists.
The third class travel agency
　　The main job for the third class travel agency is to canvass the domestic tourists to make a trip to the famous sceneries in China, and get some ideas about the historical culture and the unique customs in other places.
　There are over 100 third class travel agencies in Hunan. They are mainly in the major touring city and scenery such as Changsha, Zhangjiajie, Yueyang, Nanyue. Most of them have rational touring route, well-trained guide, good service and reasonable price; for example, if you want to take part in their touring plan, you just pay for the certain level, and you will get the completed service of “ eating, residence, transportation, touring and shopping” in the trip.

tourism hotels

The provincial capital, changsha, is a major touring city and the distributing center of tourists. The number of the hotel here is large and the level is much higher than the other part of the province. The desirable places for living to the foreigners, overseas Chinese, compatriots from HongKong, Macau and Taiwan province, and businessmen who have the higher consume level are Furong Hotel, Fulihua Hotel, Little Swan Hotel, Xiangjiang Hotel, Changcheng Hotel, Huatian Grant Hotel, Tongcheng International Hotel, Jiacheng Hotel, Jinyuan Hotel and Shennong Hotel.
Furong Hotel is located to the north of Wuyidong Road, Main center road, Changsha.
Xiangjiang Hotel is a three-star hotel. It is located in the joining point of three main roads, Bayi Road, Zhongshan Road, and Jianxiang Road.
Huatian Hotel It is located in the 16, Jiefangdong Road, Changsha, and it was founded in 1985. It is one of the most luxurious five-star hotels. It provides the unique service and peaceful surroundings with European and eastern building styles. It is the desirable place for tourists and businessman to live in and the best place for trading, touring and entertainment. The modern building covers 14000m?, and it conclude main building, east and west attaching building. The main building is 21 floors high, and has 300 sets of rooms. The high level imported materials are used to fit the commodious central hall, and make it splendid. The cafe, in the left of the hall, is comfortable and elegant. There is a color fountain near it. With the change of the melody, the fountain spurts different height of water, and it looks like colorful flowers. The servicing center, in the right of the hall, provides services such as, accommodations, inquiring, corresponding, remittance, duplicate, facsimile, depositing of the luggage, renting cars, buying the tickets, at any time. The guest rooms are from the second floor of the main building. In the rooms, the decoration is elegant and luxurious, and the facilities are advanced and complete. The garden on the top of the hall is exquisite and unique. Ascending the top, you can enjoy the whole scenery of the city. There are 18 dining rooms and banquet hall of different types and sizes in the left side of the main building. In the west branch of the building, you can find shopping arcade, laundry, billiard room, swimming pool, exercise room, beauty salon, sauna and massage room. The facilities of RAFFLE disco hall, international meeting center and trade talking hall are imported, and they are easy to use and have good effects. The management here is strict, and the staff is well-trained. It gains a good reputation in tourists.
Fulihua Hotel is located in the center of Changsha, Hunan province. It is a four-star hotel.
Tongcheng International Hotel is a five-star luxurious hotel.
Shennong Hotel is located in Furongna Road. It is a five-star hotel which is in the charge of an international company.
Jinyuan Hotel is located on the major north to south road of Changsha, Furongzhong Road. It reaches the international four-star standard.
Apart from that, Changcheng Hotel, Little Swan Hotel are the hotels being built or renovated recently. They are the hotels of three-star or four-star with complete serving facilities, good services, and they are the desirable place to live in.

The number of different hotels in Yueyang is also large, and the hotels are with complete facilities, high serving level and good services, too.
Yueyang Hotel is located in 26,Dongtingbei Road, Yueyang. It is a three-star hotel.
Yunmeng Hotel (located in Chengdong Road) and Yueyang International Tower (located in Nanhu Road) are also the major high level hotels in Yueyang. The surrounding there is excellent, and the facilities are complete. They can provide several services such as eating, residence, buying tickets and shopping to make tourist feel comfortable to live in.
　　
　Wulingyuan is the biggest and the most famous national scenic area. It is also the very place that holds the most hotels in Hunan province. With 10-year development, the tourism resorts and attractions are on the basic scale, and facilities form a complete set. Now, there are 150 different kinds of hotels, guest houses which can accommodate 10000 tourists. There are 10 tourist-oriented hotels with the accommodation of 2000 visitors. The major tourist-oriented hotels are Xianglong International Hotel, Piba Stream Hotel,so on and so forth.
Xianglong International Hotel is a four-star hotel with the investment of Xianglong Investment Company HongKong、Hunan Trust Company of Bank of China and the local government.
Piba Stream Hotel is a modern three-star hotel under the management of Hunan Traveling bureau, and it’s with the investment of National Traveling bureau and Hunan government.
　　Apart from that, Zhangjiajie Hotel, Qingyan Mountain Hotel, Youhuang village, Youse village and Meiling new village, and some other hotels are also welcomed by the tourists.
The hotels in Suoxi Gully are close to each other. There are totally 70 to 80 different hotels and guest houses in this 10-km? town. Wulingyuan Hotel, Furong Hotel, Jingxi Hotel, Suoxi Hotel, Huadian Village, Tou Peak Village are row upon row, and blow a modern wind to this mountain town which is far away from the big city. The facilities are compretativly complete. The staff is well-trained and employed from Changsha, Changde and some other big cities.
Expert Village Hotel is a non-business reception insititution in the charge of Hunan government. The main responsible for it is to receive all kinds of leads and foreign guest. At the same time, it also receives all the persons and overseas Chinese, people from Taiwan, HongKong, Macau and foreign visitors. It is located in the center of Suoxiyu scenic spot.
　　 Wulingyuan Hotel is a two-star hotel.
Tianzi Village and Fengyun Hotel in Tianzi Mountain scenic spot in Wulingyuan also have complete facilities and good services.
　There are also many hotels in Heng Mountain, and the major hotels are Nanyue Hotel, Yancheng Hotel. 　
　 Nanyue Hotel is located in Mojintai which is near the Banshan Pavilion of Heng Mountain. Nanyue Hotel is usually in charge of receiving the important guest and foreigners.
　In Magu Fairyland，there are 10 unique styled bamboo Tower. It is the desirable place for holding small-sized academic discussion, making literature creation or having a rest.
Yancheng Hotel is 45km to Nanyue. It is a joint-venture two-star hotel. It is located in 91, Jiefang Road, center of Henyang.
The facilities of tourism in Chenzhou、Wuxi in Yongzhou,Mengdong River, Jishou and Fenghuang are not as close as the ones in Changsha, Yueyang, Wulingyuan and Nanyue. But the facilities are comparatively complete and the services are good in Suxian Hotel and Wulianguan Hotel in Chenzhou, Xiaoxiang Hotel in Yongzhou, Wangcun Hotel in Yongshun Mengdong River and Biancheng Hotel in Jishou. It can meet the need of eating and residence of the tourists.