The Guangxi Huaguang Tourism Information Network was open to users in May of 1999 by Guangxi Huaguang Tourism and Trade Information co. Ltd. the company was established several years ago by a number of young people who had received advanced computer education overseas, costing 500,000 RMB.
Nowadays, the appearance if Internet Information Highway has brought the world into an information economy age. Guangxi has rich tourist resources, and
Guilin enjoys a high reputation in the world tourism. Guangxi has great potentials in developing and employing tourist resources. However, the internet has not got a station which can provides a professional and comprehensive introduction of Guangxi tourist resources. In order to let the outside world know more about Guangxi and in particular its tourist attractions, the company designed and opened Guangxi Tourism information Network, making it a window through which viewers may have a pleasant glance at beautiful Guangxi.
The network provides information on six topics-food, lodging, transporting, sightseeing, entertainment, and shopping. Employing high-tech means, the descriptions are highly illustrated, providing a whole picture of Guangxi's history, culture, folklore, scenic spots, and tourism resources. In particular, the network designs a special page named "Adjusting Room for random tourists and group tourists". Travel agencies in the region and all over the country can learn from this page in a minute about the itineraries of random tourists and group tourists in Guangxi available in the next 10 days as well as standard prices. In this way, they can organize in time random tourists from different places into groups, provide unified price, standard and reception. It helps ease the difficulty in organizing random tourists into groups so as to provide modern and quick means for the health development of Guangxi tourism market and the effective protection of the good image of Guangxi. Apart from tourism information, the network also carries information about the province's famous enterprises and brand names by opening special home pages for these firms and their products.
There is also a free information page to connect supply and demand of those running businesses in Guangxi. The information includes tourist investment, personnel, and products. The Guangxi Huaguang Tourism information Network has forged cooperative relations with some 30 web sites in the mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. It is sure that Guangxi Huaguang Tourism information Network will shortly become one of the most famous networks in China as well as in the world, contributing a lot to the development of Guangxi tourism.