WTCF Delegation Attends the 2018 Annual Conference of International Mountain Tourism Alliance

On October 13, the 2018 Annual Conference of International Mountain Tourism Alliance (hereinafter referred to as the Alliance) was held in Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, China. As a supporter of this conference, WTCF Deputy Secretary-General Yan Han led a delegation to attend the conference, and delivered a speech at the opening ceremony.

This annual conference lasted for two days with a theme that focused on the mountain tourism development’s new opportunities, new space, new model and so on in the age of new technology, and furthered its discussion with the topic “new technology + mountain tourism”. During the annual conference, activities that were held include the opening ceremony, keynote speech, “Dialogue among famous mountains in the world”, business fair and so on. Also, the Alliance proposed an initiative to set each year’s May 29 as the “World Mountain Tourism Day”, and launched the research Report on Development Trend of World Mountain Tourism. About 300 people including the International Mountain Tourism Alliance members, international organization representatives, professionals of the tourism industry, scholars and experts and others attended the conference.

WTCF Deputy Secretary-General Yan Han led a delegation to attend the conference and delivered a speech

As the representative of a cooperation partner and brotherhood organization, Yan Han, Deputy Secretary-General of WTCF, delivered a speech at the opening ceremony. He spoke highly of the development of the International Mountain Tourism Alliance: the Alliance is the first international organization in the whole world that boosts the development of mountain tourism as its emphasis, and it has gradually grown into the most influential international organization in the mountain tourism industry. By referring to WTCF’s research result Report on World Tourism Economy Trends (2018), he expressed his ideas on the theme of this year’s annual conference: “New Science and Technology for the Development of the Tourism Industry”; and his analysis emphasized the resource integration and advantages that complement one another between “city tourism” and “mountain tourism”. He initiated that WTCF, the International Mountain Tourism Alliance and other organizations join hands to learn from the experience of each other, cooperate and conduct development, and make positive contributions to the building of a more fair, more inclusive, and more harmonious new order of the world tourism.

Deputy Secretary-General Yan Han also attended “Dominique de Villepin’s saloon”. This activity was organized by the Chairman of IMTA, and the former Prime Minister of France. During the activity, topics such as “Opportunities and Challenges in Tourism Development”, “Green Mountain Tourism”, “How Modern Technology can be Applied to Tourism Development”, “Tourism drives Employment and Accurate Poverty Alleviation”, were discussed.

During the event, Deputy Secretary-General Yan Han met and exchanged opinions with Shao Qiwei, Vice Chairman of IMTA, and former Chairman of the China National Tourism Administration (CNTA); He Yafei, Secretary-General of IMTA, and former Deputy Director of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council; Lu Yongzheng, Vice Governor of Guizhou Province; and Sun Zhiming, Vice Mayor of Guiyang City. He introduced the development status and recent events of WTCF, and shared useful development experience of WTCF. He also expressed his hope that the two organizations could have the opportunity for deeper cooperation to establish a stronger partnership and achieve better development in the future.