The China International Travel Mart 2017 Held in Kunming, WTCF Joins to Exhibit and Communicate with Its Members

The 2017 International Travel Mart 2017, jointly hosted by the China National Tourism Administration, Civil Aviation Administration of China, and People’s Government of Yunnan Province, kicked off in Yunnan on November 17. WTCF set up a booth to promote WTCF and its members, and also communicated and negotiated with its members who joined the travel mart.

The China International Travel Mart is the largest professional travel fair in Asia, and has been held alternately in Shanghai and Kunming annually since 2001. About 10,000 global representatives including travel wholesalers, travel agents, retailers, and travel industry professionals participated in the 2017 Mart to exhibit, negotiate, communicate, and so on. It is estimated that over 50,000 visitors came to the travel mart.

On the first day of the China International Travel Mart, WTCF communicated with the tourism bureaus of Seoul, Colombo, Qingdao, as well as, Kazakhstan, and Zimbabwe. International exhibitors are optimistic about China's outbound tourism market. Since July, 2016, China and Kazakhstan officially started group tours to Kazakhstan. The number of Chinese tourists traveling to Kazakhstan sharply increased in less than a year, and reached about 5000 in 2016. Almaty, one of the member cities of WTCF, is becoming more and more familiar to Chinese people. Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, is also a member of WTCF to which China has become the second largest tourist source after India. The number of Chinese tourists continues to grow. Therefore, how to attract more Chinese tourists and improve the service quality, as well as the report, Market Research Report on Chinese Outbound Tourist (City) Consumption, and other researches results bring a new surge of interest to member cities, which they then consulted with WTCF for relevant issues.

The China International Travel Mart 2017 will last to November 19th.