CRI Online: World Tourism Cities Federation Qingdao Fragrant Hills Tourism Summit 2018 Opens

CRI Online: World Tourism Cities Federation Qingdao Fragrant Hills Tourism Summit 2018 Opens

Release time : 2018-09-08 11:04:18

source : CRI Online

On the morning of September 7, the World Tourism Cities Federation Qingdao Fragrant Hills Tourism Summit 2018 grandly opened in WTCF’s member city Qingdao, China. This summit, with the theme of “Orient Industry Trends, Brand Tourism Cities”, is an event jointly hosted by WTCF and Qingdao Municipal People’s Government, and it consists of eight activities: opening ceremony and keynote speech, WTCF council meeting, summit forum, Tourism Market Promotion Conference, Tourism Trade Fair, World Tourism Cities Investment & Financing Conference, exhibition, and sub-committee activities. About 400 representatives from 59 nations, 112 tourism cities and more than 200 tourism-related enterprises, and many international organizations including the United Nations, attended the summit. More than 50 national tourism ministers and tourism city mayors attended the summit.

In recent years, as China’s positive effect has constantly surfaced in the global tourism industry, its influence and voice continues to increase in the world’s tourism industry. The Fragrant Hills Summit is not only a renowned meeting event brand in the global tourism industry, but it has provided a large stage for realizing the communication between the tourism cities in the world, making cross-cultural communication possible, and promoting the economic development of tourism cities.

At the opening ceremony, Meng Fanli, Mayor of Qingdao, delivered a welcome speech to express the wish of Qingdao to further its cooperation and reach mutual benefit and win-win results with the members of WTCF. He said, “I sincerely hope that, through WTCF, we can further our communication and cooperation with the overseas tourism cities and tourism institutions, boost resource sharing, promote the complementing of advantages, achieve mutual benefit and win-win results, and join hands to create a more beautiful future for the world tourism.” Wang Ning, Executive Vice