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The government yesterday urged tour groups to keep away from rural and remote areas of China while banning large tour groups, cross-regional tours and tours to and from areas struck by severe acute respiratory syndrome.
Travel agencies should focus on anti-SARS campaigns, instead of promoting tourism, from April 21 to May 31, the China National Tourism Administration Deputy Director Sun Gang said in Beijing yesterday, adding a national tourism and trade fair scheduled for early June in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, has been put off until next year.
(eastday.com April 23, 2003)
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