Better City Life through Tourism
旅游让城市生活更美好
WTCF enables Tuniu to better communicate with industrial peers and tourism cities, grasp industrial and market trends, and forge strong partnerships with global tourism cities, helps Tuniu develop more quality tourism products based on partnerships with global tourism cities and tourists appeals, improves Tuniu s online leisure tourism platform and enhances the appeal of tourism cities as international tourist destinations, and makes travel easier.
During the World Tourism Cities Federation Fragrant Hills Tourism Summit in September 2017, Tencent signed a tripartite cooperation agreement with the World Tourism Cities Federation and Helsinki for the purpose of creating an overseas pilot city for intelligent tourism. The WeChat mini-program “Helsinki Travel Guide” created by Tencent Cultural Tourism business team was officially launched three months later.
I think WTCF events, especially the annual Fragrant Hills Tourism Summit, have large scale, high profile and substantive content. Forum topics are also forward-looking. Participants at all levels can benefit a lot from the summit.
Tourism has transformed from an important industry in the national economy to a strategic pillar industry since 2009. With the development of China s economy, the per-capita travel times and number of Chinese tourists have kept growing. In the future, tourism will no longer be a privilege of particular groups, but become normal in the daily life of Chinese people.
Tourism development is closely related to economic growth. As one of Macao s most important industries, tourism has driven the development and mutual promotion of relevant industries including retail, catering, hotel and transportation, and played a positive role in promoting the moderate, diversified and sustainable development of Macao s economy.
Tourism is not only an economic life, but also a cultural life. The key point of the future urban tourism is neither the “culture” nor the “travel”, but the integrative development of the two. It combines the resources with their carriers, the contents with their forms and the leisure with the experiences, promotes the industrial innovation and realizes the industrial upgrade and the consumption upgrade.
For Wonderful Copenhagen, the WTCF provides a forum for gaining much-needed inspiration from destinations across the world, as well as introducing new global travel trends and key players of the travel market, both among destinations, booking platforms, media and transportation.
The City of Budapest is a member of WTCF since its founding (2012). The City of Budapest usually represent itself by the Mayor or Deputy Mayors at the annual WTCF Summits organized in different member cities each year. Delegates of Budapest have been attending the annual summits of the organization each year (2012, 2013, 2014 Beijing, 2015 Rabat, 2017 Los Angeles).
I think that WTCF has the potential to be the top resource authority for cities across the globe to better understand the importance of tourism in bringing people together and also in giving cities the most advanced tools to market and promote their cities and their regions.
