Invited by Moscow, WTCF Gathers Institutional Members and Tourism Businesses to Visit

Recently, WTCF was invited by the Department of National Policy, Inter-Regional Relations and Tourism of the city of Moscow (hereinafter referred to as Moscow Tourism Department) to gather its institutional members and tourism businesses to visit Moscow for tourism resource surveying.

Those that participated in this survey expedition are institutional members of WTCF and tourism businesses, including CITS, CTS, Beijing China Travel Service, CEITS, Sunshine Tour International Travel Agency, Caissa Touristic, Ctrip, Tuniu.com., China Comfort Travel etc.

The survey group takes a photo in front of Saint Basil's Cathedral

On December 8th, members of the survey group and representatives of Moscow Tourism Department and Moscow local travel agencies held profound face-to-face communication, during which problems that the both parties are concerned were discussed. Moscow Tourism Department introduced Moscow’s tourism resources and status of development, especially the featured tourist routes customized according to Chinese tourists’ characteristics and interests. The investigation group suggested that Moscow further specify their featured tourism products according to the spotlights of travel such as “Chinese Red Tourism”, “Belt and Road Initiative”, and so on. They also suggested that Moscow provide Chinese tourists with more specific services by taking their consumption habits into consideration, and hang up Chinese or English signs on the street or inside scenic areas.

Zhang Shuo, Director-General, Business Development Department of WTCF, had a conversation with the representative of Moscow Tourism Department

The survey group visited many hotels in Moscow including Marriott, and surveyed the guestroom numbers, dining facilities, conference and conference venue facilities etc. Members of the survey group think that these Moscow hotels are suitable for accommodating Chinese tourists and business guests.

Surveying a Moscow hotel

The survey group also visited Moscow Red Square, Stalin Bunker, the Kremlin, Lenin's Mausoleum, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Saint Basil's Cathedral (listed among the UNESCO World Heritage Sites), other Moscow landmarks, and Moscow Royal Cruise, etc. This survey was organized by WTCF and its Committee of Tourism-Related Businesses and is a member service activity to facilitate communication. Some travel agencies have joined WTCF’s surveys many times before. Each time, they show great interest in the activities organized by WTCF, and are positive toward the communication and collaboration between WTCF’s member cities. This survey will be helpful for travel agencies and OTA enterprises to produce more welcoming Moscow and Russian tourism products for tourists, and it also creates an opportunity for this WTCF member city to gather the most direct cooperation advice from Chinese tourism enterprises.