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作为中国北方经济中心,天津正在加快发展邮轮、游艇经济,未来有可能成为中国北方最大的邮轮、游艇基地。
“天津国际邮轮母港总投资达12.8亿人民币,也是目前亚洲规模最大的邮轮母港,到2015年,邮轮母港将接待总计100艘国际邮轮,旅客人数将达到25至30万人”,天津市旅游局局长佘清文介绍道。今年6月,天津国际邮轮母港正式投入运营。
“邮轮经济已经成为世界旅游经济增长最快的领域。天津作为国际港口城市、北方经济中心和中国首批优秀旅游城市,有着近153公里的海岸线。这些都成为天津发展邮轮经济得天独厚的条件和资源。近年来,邮轮旅游已经逐渐成为天津旅游业的一大特色和新的增长点”,佘清文表示。
天津国际邮轮母港于位于天津港东疆保税港区南端。总规划面积120万平方米,岸线长度1600米,设置6个邮轮及相关功能泊位,可接待目前世界上最大的豪华邮轮。截至目前,母港已接待国际邮轮22艘,接待进出境旅客6万人次。
此外,天津正在计划投资90亿元人民币,建设中国北方最大的多功能豪华游艇码头,东疆保税港区管委会主任张爱国介绍道。
该游艇码头位于天津滨海新内的东疆港区,总规划面积90万平方米,游艇泊位达750个。据悉,项目总投资达90亿元人民币。近期,三大游艇项目已落户天津滨海新区,整体投资达105亿元人民币。
“完工后,东疆港游艇码头将拥有700艘游艇的接待容纳能力”,天津港集团董事长于汝民介绍道。“为了进一步加快我们的核心海运业务,我们将努力把天津港建设成为中国邮轮和游艇旅游的核心地。”
天津国际邮轮母港的年接待量将达到50万人次,今年,已接待了超过6万游客。
除了硬件设施建设,天津的游艇经济在旅游线路等方面,也期待更多突破。
天津港集团董事长于汝民日前表示:“在香港的游艇码头,游客可以自驾游艇至菲律宾和马来西亚,我们希望天津的游艇码头能够探索这种方式,发展天津与韩国之间手续便捷的自驾游艇游模式。通过游艇旅游,使中韩的旅游业往来更加紧密。”
“国家新出台的许多政策有利地推动了邮轮经济发展,比如允许外国游轮挂靠在中国的某几家公司,允许外国邮轮在中国设立独资业务机构等。随着国外企业在中国业务的发展,外国游轮企业迫切需要在中国建立合法的业务实体”,水利交通管理局的交通运输部主任宋德星介绍。
据悉,邮轮经济已被列入滨海新区“十二五计划”重点项目。滨海新区政府也将会建立相应的优惠政策,如:设立“加快北方国际航运中心建设专项资金”;建立一套完善的服务标准体系,同时通过定期举办论坛的形式,打造国际邮轮产业链的新品牌。
除游艇码头外,滨海新区还将建造游艇制造基地、维修中心、交易中心、游艇俱乐部、五星级酒店和顶级商业设施。
业界专家表示,邮轮经济将会进一步促进天津经济的发展。
中国的游艇制造能力现在已位于全球前十位。
中国旅游协会副会长,国家旅游局规划财务司司长吴文学表示:“在旅游产品装备制造方面,天津具有很好的优势。无论是从资源的配置还是生产力布局的角度,天津在整个环渤海区域经济当中都有不可替代的作用。”(中国日报供稿 记者:王钰、张佳)
英文原稿
Tianjin to become yachting and cruise liner hub
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2010-11/15/content_11551104.htm
As an appointed economic center for North China, Tianjin is gearing up efforts to develop its fledgling but promising cruise and yacht tourism industries, which some expect to become the biggest in Asia.
As the largest home port in Asia for cruise liners following investment of 1.28 billion yuan, Tianjin International Cruise Home Port is expected to have hosted a total of 100 luxury cruise liners by 2015 with an estimated 250,000 to 300,000 passengers on board, Tianjin's tourism chief said. The Home Port has been on stream since June this year.
"The cruise industry has become one of the robust growth engines of world tourism. As an international port city, an appointed economic center and tourist city for North China with 153 kilometers (km) of coastline, Tianjin has exceptional resources to develop the cruise tourism industry. Cruise tourism has gradually become a major feature and new growth engine of Tianjin tourism," said She Qingwen, head of Tianjin Tourism Bureau.
Tianjin International Cruise Home Port lies at the south end of Dongjiang Bonded Port Area. The overall planning area is 120 square kilometers (sq m), with 1,600 meters of coastline and six multi-functional berths. It has the capacity to accommodate the largest luxury cruise liner in the world. Up to now, the Home Port has received 22 international luxury cruise liners, with 60,000 inbound and outbound passengers.
In addition, Tianjin plans to invest 9 billion yuan to build the largest yacht port in the country with the eventual goal of building up the biggest yacht industry base in North China, said Zhang Aiguo, chairman of the Administrative Committee of Dongjiang Bonded Port Area.
It will be created at Dongjiang Bonded Port Area in Tianjin Binhai New Area (TBNA) and will cover an area of 900,000 sq m holding 750 berths to accommodate luxury yachts about 90 meters in length. Local officials said the port would cost 9 billion yuan ($1.34 billion). So far, three yacht club projects have been developed in TBNA, costing a total of 10.5 billion yuan.
Once completed, the yacht port hub within the Dongjiang Bonded Port Area will have the capacity to accommodate 700 yachts, said Yu Rumin, chairman of Tianjin Port (Group) Co Ltd.
"In addition to efforts to further drive up our core marine transport business, we will step up efforts to build Tianjin Port into a booming cruise and yacht tourism hub," Yu said.
Tianjin International Cruise Home Port will be able to host 500,000 people a year. This year it received 60,000 tourists.
Apart from the construction of facilities, Tianjin Port is poised to make a breakthrough in broadening yacht tourism routes and introducing more cruise liner companies.
"From the yacht ports in Hong Kong, visitors are able to sail to the Philippines and Malaysia. We hope the yacht ports in Tianjin could explore this hobby, developing convenient sailing routes between the Chinese mainland and neighboring countries such as the South Korea," Yu said.
A slew of national policies have been newly issued to promote the development of the cruise tourism economy. Foreign cruise liners are allowed to affiliate with several companies and establish sole proprietorship operational agencies in China. Some foreign cruise liner companies have an urgent need to establish legal business entities in China, according to Song Dexing, the director of the Water Transport Authority of the Ministry of Transport.
The cruise economy has been included in the 12th fiveyear plan of the TBNA. The TBNA government will establish corresponding preferential policies, such as establishing a cruise economic development special fund, creating a complete cruise service standard system, and regularly holding forums for the development of the international cruise industry.
A yacht manufacturing base, a maintenance center, a trade center, yacht clubs, five-star hotels and top-class commercial facilities are under construction in the TBNA.
Industry experts say that the cruise industry will facilitate a general upgrading of Tianjin's economy.
China's yacht production capacity is now among the global top 10.
"In terms of travel equipment manufacturing, Tianjin has great advantages. Thanks to the allocation of resources and distribution of productive forces, Tianjin plays an irreplaceable role in the Bohai Rim Economic Circle," said Wu Wenxue, vice-president of the China Tourism Association and director of the planning and finance department of the China National Tourism Administration.