U-tour Group ranked among the top 20 Chinese tourism groups in 2019 and was shortlisted for the list for six consecutive years

On December 15, the "2019 China Tourism Group Development Forum" jointly sponsored by the China Tourism Academy (Data Center of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism) and the China Tourism Association released the list of "Top 20 China Tourism Groups" in Beijing. U-tour Group was once again on the list and won this honor for six consecutive years. Mr. Feng Bin, Chairman of U-tour Group, was invited to attend the forum and started a strategic dialogue with Mr. Dai Bin, President of the China Tourism Academy and leaders of major domestic tourism groups on topics such as the integration of technology and the tourism industry and achieving high-quality development.

Source: U-tour Group

"China Tourism Group Development Forum" is one of the most important annual events in China's tourism industry. The list of "Top 20 Chinese Tourism Groups" released annually by the forum is regarded as one of the most authoritative list of China's tourism industry. With the theme of "technological energy and high-quality development", the forum discusses the achievements and challenges faced by tourism enterprises in the application of new technologies and industrial innovation, the enhancement of corporate competitiveness and brand value, etc. and analyzes the development strategy and countermeasures of Chinese tourism enterprises in 5G era to make technological innovation a new driving force for the high-quality development of tourism enterprises.

Mr. Feng Bin, Chairman of U-tour Group, said at the forum that technological innovation is bringing revolutionary changes to the tourism industry in terms of business models, production processes, and business operations. However, no matter how disruptive technology is, the nature of service in the tourism industry cannot be changed. We must always take service quality as the premise, take products as the core, and provide more high-quality services for tourists by technological innovation. This is the meaning of integration development of technology and tourism.

Under the guidance of competent authorities at all levels in recent years, U-tour Group adheres to the development path from tourism to travel, accelerates the integration of the industrial chain, and expands its business from outbound tourism to domestic tourism and "tourism +" outbound services, gradually extend to the series services of comprehensive tourism and outbound services, such as domestic tourism, high-end tourism, study abroad, immigration, tourism finance, health care, and destination services. On the basis of continuing to strengthen the leading edge of the wholesale business, it will increase retail business development efforts and expand “U-tour” retail brand to the whole country. Under the historical opportunity of the great integration of culture and tourism, U-tour Group will continue to broaden its development thinkings and meet the growing needs of tourists for cultural tourism life with higher quality and more culturally valuable tourism products and services.