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The World Tourism Cities Federation’s annual Fragrant Hills Tourism Summit, which ended on Saturday in Qing dao, in Shandong province, drew a huge response this year.
About 400 representatives from 112 cities and more than 200 members of tourism insti tutions and international organizations attended the event, which included forums, tourism promotions and trade and investment meetings.
“Tourism not only generates jobs and income along with business opportunities, but it also increases public revenues,” Tegegnework Gettu, the United Nations undersecre tarygeneral, said in his speech at the opening ceremony on Friday.
“And the increased fiscal revenues made available to national and local authorities, in turn, can be reinvested in the improvement of infra structure and services, further increasing the attractiveness of cities.”
According to him, if pres sures on local housing prices and overuse of natural and cultural assets are managed properly, there could be a vir tual cycle that may drive the achievement of the sustaina ble development goals all over the world.
Recent data from the United Nations World Tourism Organization show that there were over 1.3 billion interna tional tourist arrivals in 2017 around the world, up 6.8 per cent over 2016, the highest increase since 2009. And Chi na continued to lead global outbound travel in terms of expenditure, with $257.7 bil lion spent last year.
WTCF’s secretarygeneral Song Yu attributed the rapid rise of mass tourism in the world to the improvement of transport, like civil aviation, highspeed trains and har bors.
As for who is traveling, Song says: “Young people prefer independent travel. And the boom of the middle classes means that more people will seek goodquality customized travel.
“Also, tourist cities are not only a
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