1. To implement the guidelines and policies and enforce laws, rules and regulations related to tourism; to study and draw up the drafts of local rules and regulations on tourism affairs and formulate relevant policies in the light of the actual circumstances in this Municipality, and organize the implementation of relevant rules, regulations, and policies.

2. To formulate this Municipality’s tourism development planning, the tourism professional planning and the annual plans according to this Municipality’s overall planning for national economy and social development; to balance the district/county tourism planning in a comprehensive manner; to cooperate in drawing up the trans-regional tourism planning, and organize the implementation of such planning.

3. To study and trace the development trends of the international and domestic tourism industry; to study and draw up the orientational proposals for the tourism industry development; to study and draw up policies and measures for promotion of tourism industry’s structural readjustment and support the business state of the newly-emerging tourism industry, and organize the implementation of such policies and measures.

4. To be responsible for the industrial administration work of this Municipality’s various tourism enterprises and tourism affairs agencies including tourism lodging, travel agencies, tourism scenic spots and zones, tourism vacation zones, tourism information; to do a good job of tourism industrial administration work of tourism routes and tourism terminals; to be responsible for the examination and approval of travel visa and the issuance of travel visa notices.

5. To study and formulate the tourism market development strategy; foster and improve the tourism market; formulate the publicity plan for the tourism image of this Municipality; establish the publicity network for the domestic and international tourism resources, and determine the special topics of annual publicity; highlight the large-scaled tourism activities and routes of this Municipality; to organize and direct the development of the important tourism products; to organize, direct, and coordinate the festival and celebration activities for tourism; to participate in the organization and coordination of this Municipality’s large-scaled activities including conferences and exhibitions; to direct the market development of this Municipality’s tourism enterprises and administrative offices of tourism.

6. To organize and implement the national and trade standards involving all kinds of tourism scenic spots and zones, tourism vacation zones, tourism lodging, travel agencies, tourism vehicles and ships, and specialized tourism items; formulate this Municipality’s local standard for tourism industry jointly with relevant departments, and direct the implementation of such standards.

7. To advance the construction of informatization of tourism industry, establish the tourism information management system, carry out the inter-regional communication of tourism information, and release the relevant tourism information to the public; to be responsible for holiday tourism forecast and tourism warning; provide the appropriate safeguarding and public services to tourism e-commerce jointly with relevant departments.

8. To organize the general survey and evaluation of this Municipality’s tourism resources, establish the tourism resources archives, formulate the protection schemes for tourism resources, and organize the implementation of such schemes.

9. To supervise and inspect order and service quality of the tourism market; to accept and handle the complaints from tourists; to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of tourists and tourism business operators; to be responsible for the administration of the planning and the direction of the development of the necessary auxiliary facilities for the tourism services; to administer and use the tourism special funds and travel agencies’quality guarantee funds according to the relevant provisions; to direct and check the use of the domestic travel agencies’quality guarantee funds by the district/county tourism administrative departments.

10. To direct the exploitation, exchange and administration of talents in the tourism industry; to be responsible for the formulation of the tourism talents training planning and professional technical post standard; to organize and direct tourism education and training; to direct the professional quality test and ranking assessment of the tourism jobholders.

11. To supervise and administer the work of tourism trade associations and social intermediary organizations of tourism.

12. To be responsible for acceptance and handling of administrative reconsideration cases and response to administrative actions.

13. To undertake other matters assigned by the Municipal Government.