Call to Action: Building Node Cities on the Belt and Road Tourism City Corridor

The Belt and Road Tourism Corridor carries the vision of promoting the Silk Road spirit of “peace, cooperation, openness, inclusiveness, mutual learning and mutual benefit” in keeping with the global trend, realizing benefit sharing, infrastructure connectivity and joint building of tourism culture through open “connectivity”, and building the Belt and Road Tourism Corridor into a diversified and convenient world-class tourism corridor.

Release time : 2017-12-05 10:09:21

source : WTCF

and training, data and information sharing, set an example in the building of node cities on the Belt and Road Tourism Corridor and provide fresh experience for world tourism cooperation.

Taking the opportunity of the Asia Pacific Tourism Conference, WTCF hereby calls on all countries and cities along the Belt and Road to make efforts in the following five areas:

1. Promoting openness and cooperation and striving for win-win results. Countries along the Belt and Road should champion the notion of open, inclusive and shared development, actively take part in the building of the Belt and Road, break the institutional barriers, build an open market, ease restrictions on freedom of the air, strengthen the link of airports, ports, railway stations and other key nodes, accelerate road connectivity, upgrade infrastructure conditions, and jointly build the trunk lanes of international tourism with land-sea-air transport connectivity. We should further ease restrictions on border entry and exit, strengthen the mechanisms of license mutual recognition, road emergency rescue and tourism insurance, and improve tourism visa facilitation in countries along the Belt and Road. We should push for the building of a tourism cooperation meeting mechanism for countries and regions along the Belt and Road. We should build a Belt and Road tourism trade cooperation mechanism by enhancing bilateral or multilateral cooperation and explore diverse mechanisms of tourism cooperation. We should attract the participation of private capital in the development of tourism resources, strive for the free movement and effective allocation of resources and factors and create conditions for more people to participate in tourism activities.

2. Respecting cultural diversity and building a mechanism for collaboration. We should give full respect to historical heritage and diversity in ethnicity, religion, belief, language, customs, culture and environment, protect ecological and natural harmony