By Yuling Chen, iChongqing News
Chongqing- The 6th Western China Tourism Industry Expo, or WTE 2019, will be held in Chongqing International Expo Center from June 21to 23, 2019, according to the organizing committee of WTE 2019 Monday.
The 6th Western China Tourism Industry Expo, or WTE 2019, will be held in Chongqing International Expo Center from June 21to 23, 2019, according to the organizing committee June 17.
The Chongqing Municipal People’s Government hosts the tourism feast for western China, co-organized by the Chongqing Municipal Commission of Culture and Tourism Development. It is an essential platform for the cultural tourism image display and cultural tourism industry trading in Chongqing, and also an important measure for the city to build itself as an internationally renowned tourist destination.
Mainly in forms of the exhibition, summit forum, cultural performances, interactive activities, WTE 2019 will display the new development of the cultural tourism industry in Chongqing, western China, and even the whole world. The exhibition area is 34,500 square meters. It will bring together 500 companies and gather many high-quality tourism resources at home and abroad.
The night skyline of Yuzhong Peninsula in Chongqing, China
WTE 2019 attracts more than 80 international tourism promotion agencies from 42 countries and regions including the UK, Spain, Sweden, Belgium, France, New Zealand, Portugal, Croatia, Greece, Germany, Austria, Canada, South Africa, Belarus, and Morocco, reaching a record high.
International exhibitors will promote tourist destinations and bring their cultural performances. The vibrant tourism products of relevant countries will be presented at the exhibition so that the audience can quickly grasp the latest and most comprehensive outbound travel information and experience the exotic culture in advance. In addition, an international delegation of nearly 100 foreign travel agents and well-known overseas media reporters will visit various tourist attractions in Chongqing.
Chinese exhibitors are not constrained to Chongqing, but also include more than 160 tourism enterprises from the rest of China.
Eight exhibition areas show the integration of culture and tourism
Eight major theme exhibition areas, namely, international tourism, domestic boutique tourism, Chongqing cultural tourism integration, cultural tourism equipment, exclusive tourism products, intangible cultural display and experience, digital and intelligent tourism, and wellness tourism, will showcase the development of Chongqing cultural tourism industry in many aspects. Compared with the previous editions, there are distinctive four exhibition areas.
The cultural tourism equipment exhibition area attracts many excellent manufacturing enterprises engaging in tourism transportation equipment, outdoor tourism sports, and tourism infrastructure equipment. The digital and intelligent tourism exhibition area will showcase a wide range of traveling smart products. The “power of inheritance” intangible cultural display and experience area will bring together more than 20 national, municipal, and district-level intangible cultural heritage projects. At the same time, visitors can also experience paper-cutting, bamboo carving other artifacts-making. The exhibition area for poverty alleviation is specially set up to provide a free travel and service platform for 14 poverty-stricken counties and 18 poverty-stricken towns and villages in Chongqing. It aims to promote local specialty travel products and increase opportunities for local enterprises to seek cooperation.
Promotion for Integrated Projects of Culture and Tourism & Products Launch Conference will fully demonstrate cultural tourism resources in the western region and effectively carry out project investment attraction activities.
“A tour in Chongqing, A Gain in vision” Cultural Tourism Industry Development Summit Forum scheduled on June 21 will gather travel industry research experts, scholars, and cultural travel project investors to explore new modes, business forms and ideas for the in-depth integration and development of the cultural tourism industry in the western region.
The awarding ceremony of the International Golden Idea Competition on Culture and Tourism Integrated Development of Chongqing will explore ways to help city tourism development driven by culture.
In addition to a wealth of promotional activities (open the link via WeChat), there are also many interactive experience activities on the spot. The Bayu food exhibition area will bring the “Chongqing Taste” to the scene. Thousands of food coupons will be available every day. A series of practical classrooms for travel and life, such as hand-washed coffee, mobile photography, flower arrangement art, etc.
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