The Yearbook of China Tourism is a professional yearbook organized by China National Tourism Administration， sponsored by the China Tourism Association and published by China Travel Tourism Press， comprehensively reflecting the development and achievements of China's tourism industry. It has recorded the guidelines， policies， monographs， statistical data and related information of the Clunese tourism industry. To this day， a total of 28 volumes of The Yearbook of China Tourism have been published since its first publication in 1990. The Yearbook of China Tourism enjoys a rather high prestige in the industry. With the continuous development of tourist industry， tourism has been playing an increasingly important role in foreign exchanges； and tourism has become an important channel between China and the world for the spreading of civilization，cultural communication and the deepening of communication and understanding；while tourism diplomacy has risen into a national strategy.
