WTCF delegations attend 8th UNWTO Global Summit on Urban Tourism

The 8th United Nations World Tourism Organization Global Summit on Urban Tourism was held in Nur-Sultan, the capital of Kazakhstan, from October 9th to the 12th, 2019.

Release time : 2019-10-12 20:51:51

source : WTCF

transportation, internet, wireless communication, and strive to reduce barriers between residents and tourists. Cities should also actively adopt advanced technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence, and create tourism products that contribute to the sustainable development and accessibility of cities. At the same time, Yan Han shared with the participants the key contents of the Global Report on Smart Tourism in Cities, which was written by the WTCF.

After the roundtable discussion, Yan Han presented the Global Report on Smart Tourism in Cities to the Secretary-General Zurab Pololikashvili of the UNWTO. They had a further discussion on smart cities and the achievements of the WTCF Helsinki Fragrant Hills Tourism Summit 2019. Zurab congratulated the WTCF Helsinki Summit on its success and expressed regret for not being able to attend the summit in person. Zurab expressed that he would attend the Beijing Fragrant Hills Tourism Summit in 2020.

He Shengkang, consultant of the WTCF, attended the sub-forum

At the sub-forum, He Shengkang, consultant of the WTCF, participated in the discussion themed ‘Making the best of technology in building competitive urban destinations’. In terms of technological innovation and development in the smart tourism cities, He Shengkang stressed that smart tourism has abundant content. The application of new technologies and the innovation of artificial intelligence will be a huge project with great challenges and broad prospects.

Since 2012, the UNWTO Global Summits on Urban Tourism has been successfully held for eight sessions in Istanbul, Moscow, Barcelona, Marrakech, Luxor, Kuala Lumpur, Seoul and Nur-Sultan. The WTCF has been invited to attend the summit many times to share the experience of tourism cities’ development. Through participating in this summit, the first initiative of the cooperation memorandum signed by the WTCF and the UNWTO has been implemented.

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