The Wuhan Tourism Administration has announced that from this September, travel agencies in Wuhan will be able to operate inbound tourism business, which means the city will welcome more tourists from abroad.

Agencies operating domestic and inbound tourism business will change their business licenses to new ones with a license number "L-HUB-XXXXX". Agencies will have to pay a quality deposit of CNY200,000 to run inbound tourism business.

From September 1, 2009, Wuhan Tourism Administration will accept applications of agencies operating domestic and inbound tourism businesses.

(China Hospitality News August 27, 2009)