China and Argentina will reinforce bilateral tourism exchanges to promote cooperation, tourism officials from the two countries said Tuesday.

Argentine Tourism Minister Enrique Meyer said that he was confident that an increasing number of Chinese tourists would visit Argentina as more cultural events would be held to boost tourism exchanges between the two sides.

Meyer made the remarks when meeting with Wang Yan, deputy chief of the National Tourism Administration of China (CNTA).

For her part, Wang said that Chinese people "have a lot of interests" in knowing Argentina, its culture, folklore and customs.

About 15,000 Chinese tourists visited Argentina in 2009. In the first several months of this year, the number of Chinese tourists to Argentina registered a rise of more than 25 percent compared with the same period last year.