January 27, Wuhan City Culture and Tourism Bureau in the official website issued “Wuhan City Culture and Tourism Bureau to the sister cities of the tourism industry colleagues of a letter”, the following is the full text: sister cities of the tourism industry colleagues: At present, the party committees and governments at all levels are in accordance with the decision-making and deployment of the Central Committee of the Party, to carry out the prevention and control of new coronavirus-infected pneumonia outbreak work in earnest. In order to prevent and control the spread of new coronavirus-infected pneumonia through the tourism route, the morning of January 17, Wuhan City Culture and Tourism Bureau held the city’s outbound tours organized by the person in charge of the emergency work will require outbound tours organized by the company no longer accept new tourists to organize tours out of the country to persuade tourists who have already been organized by the tourists in accordance with the rules of the law for the withdrawal of refund; January 23, the city’s request for all tourist groups are canceled from 10 o’clock on January 23, the Wuhan port travel team outbound number is zero. In order to effectively cut off the transmission of the virus, resolutely curb the momentum of the spread of the epidemic, from January 23, the airlines have temporarily canceled the passenger flights to Wuhan Tianhe Airport. However, the Wuhan tourism team that has left the country in the early stage will return from January 24th to the beginning of February according to the travel plan. Due to the temporary cancellation of flights to Wuhan Tianhe Airport, the original plan to return to Wuhan from Wuhan Tianhe Airport entry of the tourism team, the need to change flights from other sister cities to return to the entry of the tourism team after the entry of the tourism team need to stay, return to Han transportation and other services. The Bureau has guided and supervised the outbound tour organizers to do a good job in returning the tour groups back to Han. When one side is in trouble, all sides will support. Cities and states in Yunnan Province and Zhanjiang City in Guangdong Province have implemented unified placement in designated hotels for travelers from Hubei. In the airlines, brother cities tourism industry colleagues of great concern, support and help, January 24 to 26, 24:00, pre-departure of the tourism team one after another to return to the country, part of the team tourists by the location of the normal epidemic prevention testing has arrived in Wuhan, there are still 4,096 Wuhan tourists are still outside the country. In this regard, the Wuhan Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, Wuhan Tourism Association, Wuhan outbound tour organizers and team tourists, to all parties to give great care, support and help, to express my heartfelt thanks! Due to the concerns about the spread and spread of the epidemic, some Wuhan outbound tour groups have encountered some difficulties in terms of changing flights on their return journeys, accommodation and transportation back to Han after entering the country from sister cities. We sincerely appeal and request that airlines and colleagues in the tourism industry of sister cities continue to give strong support and help to Wuhan tour groups returning to their home countries, so that outbound Wuhan tour groups will return to their home countries safely and feel the warmth of the motherland more deeply; we request that the cultural and tourism departments of sister cities continue to give strong coordination and solve problems, and give the necessary help to all the Wuhan citizens traveling abroad, so that they will feel the warmth of sister cities more deeply. We request the cultural and tourism departments of the sister cities to continue to give great coordination and relief to all Wuhan residents traveling abroad and give them the necessary help so that they can more deeply feel the warmth and love of the sister cities! In order to prevent the spread of the epidemic and protect the health and safety of passengers and citizens of sister cities, the Bureau has reminded and requested each outbound tour organizing company to effectively strengthen the health management of group tourists, supervise tour groups to buy temperature testing equipment, and insist on testing the temperature of tourists 1 time a day in the morning and 1 time in the evening, and to organize the diagnosis of tourists who have abnormal temperatures and who are not feeling well to the nearest local hospitals in time, so as to ensure that group tourists taking flights are in good health. Tourist health. At the same time, the travel team is required to mobilize tourists to actively cooperate with the travel itinerary and return home to Han in the location of the epidemic prevention and management. Wuhan tourism team in the process of returning to Han, sister cities tourism industry colleagues, the airlines need to cooperate with Wuhan to do a good job of related work, please promptly inform the Wuhan Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism new coronavirus infected with pneumonia epidemic prevention and control command emergency protection team (24-hour emergency duty telephone: 027-82810057), we will do our best to coordinate with the relevant work. We believe that with the strong support and help from colleagues in the tourism industry of sister cities and airlines, Wuhan tourists outside the country will be able to return home to Han safely; we firmly believe that with the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee and the determination of the whole country, we will be able to win the battle against the prevention and control of the new coronavirus-infected pneumonia epidemic! Source: Wuhan Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism “A Letter from Wuhan Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism to Colleagues of Tourism Industry in Brother Cities”.