The Kaohsiung City government will consider whether to screen a documentary about the exiled leader of China's Uighur minority, Rebiya Kadeer, in light of the local tourism sector's concern that Chinese tourists would boycott the southern port city, local government officials said Thursday. The 53-minute documentary, 'The 10 Conditions of Love, ' was scheduled to be screened at the Kaohsiung Film Festival from Oct. 16-29. It features Kadeer, who is accused by Chinese authorities of masterminding the July 5 Xinjiang riots. Kaohsiung City government Secretary-General Hau Chien-sheng said private companies were commissioned to plan and organize the film festival, therefore, the city government was not aware that the documentary was to be included in the festival. The decision to screen the film at the festival will be reviewed, in light of the growing concerns in the tourism industry over a possible backlash, he said. The city's Tourism Bureau received a request from local tourism stakeholders to cancel the screening of the documentary, and their position on the matter was conveyed to the city's Information Office, according to the bureau's director Lin Kun-shan. Kaohsiung Tourism Association Chairman Tseng Fu-hsing said that the city's tour operators reached a resolution at a meeting on Sept. 14 to ask the city government not to screen the film as it might lead to a boycott of the city by Chinese tourists. In the midst of an economic downturn, local travel agents are certainly not willing to see their businesses hurt by a documentary film, Tseng said. They therefore asked the city government to consider pulling the film from the festival, he added. In view of the good framework that has been established for interaction between Taiwan and China, Tseng said, he hopes the city government will handle the matter with discretion. He said that last week at a travel fair in Xiamen, when he asked high-ranking officials from China National Tourism Administration whether the Dalai Lama's recent visit to Kaohisung would influence Chinese tourists' decisions to visit Kaohsiung, he was told that the reaction was not likely to extend that far. Media reports have claimed that in September, Chinese tour groups canceled 3,000 hotel reservations in the southern port city, which translated into total operating losses of NT$6 million at the hotels, but Lin Kun-shan said he could not confirm these figures. He said he has received complaints from several hotels about room cancellations, but added that this could have been as a result of Typhoon Morakot and the swine flu epidemic, and was not necessarily related to the Dalai Lama's visit. However, Lin said, the city government will come up with a series of promotions to attract more Chinese visitors to Kaohsiung. 