By Paul Eckert
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of 200 tourists from China will get a cabinet-level official welcome in the United States this week — a sign the U.S. tour industry hopes millions more will follow in their footsteps.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez will head up a Washington waterfront reception on Thursday for the first tourists to take advantage of a bilateral agreement allowing packaged group tourism to the United States from China.
Until now, the 300,000 Chinese citizens who visited the United States each year came only on student and business visas or to visit family members residing in the United States.
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