Australian Tourism Delegation To China

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I willvisit Beijing and Shanghai this week to advance the Australia China traderelationship and to launch the China Australia Year of Tourism.

Adelegation of chief executives from the Australian tourism sector will join me.We will meet with senior Chinese business executives and governmentrepresentatives to build on our already strong tourism links and discussopportunities for greater two-way investment.

Thedelegation, including the chief executives of seven Australian airports, willexplore opportunities arising from the landmark open aviation market airservices agreement the Turnbull Government secured in December 2016.

Thearrangement removes all capacity restrictions between Australia and China forairlines of both countries and allows airlines of Australia and China to offerunlimited flights to and from any points in Australia and China, includinginternational airports in regional Australia. This is the first time China hassigned such an agreement with any country.

Capitalisingon this historic agreement will drive more Chinese tourists to Australia. Themore tourists we can get to Australia, the more jobs will be created.

China isAustralia's most valuable tourism export market, with the potential to be worthmore than $13 billion by 2020.

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