CTA established by approval of the State Commission Office for Public Sector Reform
On July 30th, 2007, in accordance with Application for Establishing China Tourism Academy, the State Commission Office for Public Sector Reform approved to found CTA, mainly responsible for research on basic theories, polices and key and difficult issues concerning the development of tourism, studying, compiling and verifying tourism development plans, providing technical support to the inspection of tourism development plans submitted by local governments.