Legal Obstacles of Cruise Tourism Development in China and Innovative Direction of High Seas Tour Pilot Project in Hainan

Abstract

China has become the second largest cruise tourist source in the world, and has great potential in the future. However, in sharp contrast with the demand side, the supply side faces a series of legal obstacles such as cruise ticket, Cruise material supply, tourists clearance, cruise fleet cultivation and foreign investment access, which urgently need to be broken through and innovated. Developing high seas tourism is the breakthrough of cruise tourism development in China. From the creation of international tourism consumption center, the development of high seas tourism is conducive to expanding the development space of tourism consumption, improving the quality of tourism consumption service, and promoting the internationalization of tourism consumption. Hainan must earnestly fulfill the pilot project of the high seas tourism entrusted by the Party Central Committee and the State Council. In order to explore and accumulate experience that can be replicated and promoted for the development of cruise economy and cruise tourism in China, Hainan should "bold trial, bold venture, independent reform" from the perspectives of the implementation of the high seas cruise ticket system, exploration of the cruise registration policy and tax preferential policies, and the innovation of products of high seas tourism.