Tianjin boasts plentiful natural resources and humanistic resources which reflect modern history and civilization. The city perfectly integrates the modern with the ancient, the east with the west. Tianjin was rated as one of the outstanding tourist cities in China by the National Tourism Administration in 1999.

Tianjin has built 6 tourist brands with special features, including Cultural Tour — Understanding Modern China through Tianjin, Metropolitan Tour, Tour along the Haihe River, Leisure Tour in Binhai New Area, Tour in the Suburbs, and China Tourism Industry Expo, so as to develop itself into an influential tourism city and international tourist destination.

In recent years, Tianjin has been focusing on the all-region tourism strategy, which takes an entire region as a tourist destination, and actively promoting the coordinated development of tourism in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. It is committed to facilitating the tourism and cultural cooperation among the countries and regions involved in the Belt and Road Initiative, developing more leisure tourism products such as rural home-stay, agricultural tourism, industrial tourism, red tourism (visits to historical sites with a revolutionary legacy), sports tourism, and offering high-quality and diversified products for tourists.

Tianjin selected as global best tourism practices sample city

The UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) announced a list of 15 global best tourism practices sample cities in October 2017. Tianjin, together with another two Chinese cities — Beijing and Hangzhou, as well as cosmopolitans like Berlin in Germany, Copenhagen in Denmark, Tokyo in Japan and Seoul in South Korea, are on the shortlist.

China Tianjin Wudadao Tourism Festival

The 14th China Tianjin Wudadao Tourism Festival kicked off at a historical site-Prince Qing’s Mansion on Dec. 13, 2017. Various activities such as an exhibition featuring Tang Dynasty cultural relics, performance on weekends, concerts, New Year celebrations and an exhibition featuring clay figurines, dough modeling were held to offer a cultural feast to local residents and visitors both at home and abroad. The activities also further promoted the foreign style buildings and demonstrated the strengths of Tianjin in the construction of an all-region tourism demonstration area.