Shenzhen is one of the most important tourism cities in Mainland China and a very important base for making tourism profit in foreign currency, highly reputed as “China’s Theme Park and Capital of Tourism Innovation”. Particularly the Oversea Chinese Tourism Zone and Mission Hills Golf Club are the first batch top-grade Class AAA tourism zones. Shenzhen is highly favored with the tourism and transportation network with the stereoscopic vision, safe and swift convenience, easy access to the sea, inland and air ports and easy connection with thee inland, waterway and urban transport facilities, greatly bringing the development of food, residence, travel, tourism and amusement into coordination, gathering together the delicacies and famous, excellent and special variety and new commodities from all parts of the country and the world.
In 2006 the tourism residential facilities enjoy 23.1728 million person times of the over-night guests and tourists, increased by 8.1% over the previous year, including the overseas tourists of 7.1274 million person times, up to 15.6%. The employees in the tourism industry exceed more than 0.12 million and the fixed assets reach more than 20 billion RMB yuan. The main tourism scenic spots aggregate up to more than 50 and there are altogether 160-odd star-level hotels and 70-odd travel agencies.