Government and enterprise representatives from 16 cities around north China's Bohai Sea gathered in Tianjin Friday, founding a regional tourism cooperation organization.

The round-Bohai port city tourism cooperative agreement was signed by delegates from the 16 cities including Beijing, Tianjin, Dalian, Qingdao and Qinhuangdao. They believed that an incorporateregional tourism concept should be widely promoted in this region.

All the delegates agreed that regional cooperation has become the dominant trend of today's world tourism economy, which is alsosuitable for the cities around the Bohai Sea.

Zhi Shenghua, deputy mayor of Tianjin Municipality, said the round-Bohai region has rich tourism resources. All the member cities of the organization should break market, traffic and mechanism barriers to form a large market through cooperation.

(Xinhua News Agency October 15, 2005)