Promoting the Globalization of World Tourism Cities — Los Angeles Declaration of WTCF

Cities are both the major destinations and major tourist sources of world tourism. They carry the important function of tourism hubs. We attach high importance to the role of tourism cities as the connecting points for world tourism development and encourage tourism cities...

Release time : 2017-09-21 11:33:00

source : WTCF

the role of WTCF as a media platform, and step up the publicity of tourism brands. We should promote civilized tourism, abide by local laws and regulations, and respect local cultural traditions and customs. We should respect the normal life of local residents, promote the coordinated development of tourism and non-tourism, and reduce the adverse effects of excessive tourism. We should actively promote internationalization of tourism businesses and direct more capital and technology to the emerging tourism destination. We should connect to the Belt and Road Initiative and other international cooperation mechanisms, and speed up the building of tourism corridor and node cities.

4. Providing more convenient and efficient tourism services. We should encourage the relevant countries to establish management systems that meet the needs of public tourism, further relax restrictions on border entry and exit, improve the mechanisms for mutual certificate recognition and promote the facilitation of tourism visa. Tourism cities should deliver services in more commonly used languages, improve the system of tourist signs, and promote the internationalization of tourism services. We support tourism cities to leverage the role of modern science and technology in driving tourism, and employ multiple technologies including the internet to develop tourism reception services suited to the needs of individual tourists. We should make full use of WTCF’s data platform to provide services for world tourism cities to make scientific decisions.

5. Strengthening the safety and security of world tourism. To address the public concern of safety and security, we encourage relevant countries and tourism cities to actively carry out multilateral cooperation and explore the establishment of regional mechanism for tourism safety and security. We should focus on strengthening the exchange and communication of tourist safety information, and providing open and transparent safety information