Tianjin: Wonderful Review -- "Grand Meeting of Tourism Industry, Stage of Win-win Cooperation"

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On October 23rd, 2018, Ministry of Culture and Tourism convened The Press Conference of 2018 China Tourism Industries Expo. Co-organized by Ministry of Culture and Tourism as well as Tianjin Municipal People's Government, specially supported by UNWTO, 2018 China Tourism Industries Expo will be held from November 9th to 11th at Meijiang Expo Center.

China Tourism Industries Expo had been successfully held for 9 years since 2009, winning wide praise from tourism circles. In 2017, the expo achieved greatly: nearly 270,000 visitors (person time) attended and about 20 billion CNY transaction amount were concluded on site including 19.84 billion CNY contracts of characteristic town project; 80.89 million CNY contracts of tourism facilities like RV, yacht and camping facilities; 29.7 million CNY contracts and 0.12 billion CNY intention contracts of tourism route project and tourist commodities.

In 2017, National Games were also held in Tianjin, making the expo more meaning and extraordinary. 2018 expo will soon be held. Before that we can firstly review those wonderful scenes of 2017.

As the host, Tianjin introduced visitors all characteristic route and attractions. With the slogan of "Charming Beijing", exhibiting area of Beijing was also crowded with many visitors; in Hebei exhibiting area, beside attraction introductions, there were also many famous tourist commodities like Hengshui In Painting and Handan Black Pottery.

"Tianjin Industry" is the rapidly developing rhythm of Tianjin, the industrial city. But with the development, many old enterprises gradually vanished. Themed on industrial memory, Tianjin has successfully developed multiple attractions of industrial tourism. Tianjin Airport Industrial Tour was co-created by Tianjin Tourism Group and Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone Administrative Committee. The project brings partial industrial enterprises of Binhai New Area into tourism routes, showing not only the history, but also the powerful modern production.

Tianjin Airport Industrial Tourism Distribution Center had also been established consisting of tourism enterprises image display, products display, product sale and self experience project. The center would effectively increase the experience, participation property and interestingness of industrial tourism. Every tourists coming to airport knew about all general situation of airport industrial tourism enterprises in here where they also could buy out-and-out industrial tourism products as well as attend DIY experience projects.

With the opportunity of National Games, "Sports" and "Tourism" were synthetically developed to derive out more "new highlights" and "new playing methods". Leisure fitness services were provided integrated with sports and tourism, which was in favor of carrying forward sports spirit, better creating the unique brand of Tianjin tourism and manifesting the unique charms of Tianjin.

Developing aims of the expo had been more clarified that the expo would be developed to be an integrative developing platform to promote fitness and leisure sports industry, ecological tourism and all-in-one tourism; integrative developing platform of sports tourism and national fitness; integrative developing platform of sports tourism and outdoor mountain climbing sports; synergistically developing platform of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei sports tourism. The expo would assist structural reform of supply side, derive new industrial development model and innovate new economic growing.

In next few years, sports tourism economic will become an important part of economic form and urban economy that the new operating type of sports tourism will be promising.

Hall N7, the exhibiting area of tourist commodities, was displayed with many specialty commodities and souvenirs. Some of them with unique appearance were very eye-catching, such as the bookend designed according to Tianjin Concert Hall, interesting lighter designed according to local crosstalk, chopsticks looking like Tianjin Eye and some table containers designed according to famous landmarks of Tianjin.

Among all exhibits, characteristic tourist commodities from districts of Tianjin are especially loved by tourists. Many intangible cultural heritage and other handicrafts of Nankai District are shown like Kite Wei and Monkey dolls made by traditional Chinese medicine, all embodying the profound cultural features of Tianjin.

With all the expectation, we will soon welcome the 2018 China Tourism Industries Expo in November at Meijiang Expo Center.