WTCF Wins “A Witness of Changes of the Times” Award

On January 10, 2019, the iQIYI StylePlus Show Case 2018 kicked off in Beijing. At the event, WTCF won the “A Witness of Changes of the Times” Award, which is granted to mass media that disseminate policy claims, record the vicissitudes of the times, boost the social progress, and witness fairness and justice.

Since 2012 when it was founded, WTCF, an international tourism organization committed to “Better City Life through Tourism”, has not only been leading the development trend of international tourism cities, but it has also been recording the prosperous development of the tourism industry of city destinations. At the iQIYI StylePlus Show Case, WTCF was granted the “A Witness of Changes of the Times” Award. When interviewed by iQIYI, WTCF’s Executive Deputy Secretary-General Li Baochun said, “With the economic and social development and the improvement of the people’s material and cultural standards, tourism and leisure have become part of people’s life. Travel makes people feel comfortable, and travel makes people’s life become better. For many years in a row, China has become the world’s top outbound tourism nation, and its number of outbound tourists had exceeded 140 million in 2018. According to the Market Research Report on Chinese Outbound Tourist (City) Consumption, the average consumption of Chinese outbound tourists has reached 2610 U.S. dollars, not including their expense on airline tickets and hotels, which fully exposes the great power of China’s outbound tourism market. Meanwhile, Chinese outbound tourism has also fostered the interaction between people and the communication between different cultures. The occurrence of comprehensive communication and cooperation is progressing on the daily basis, especially along with study, economic and trading cooperation, investment and other aspects.”

With over six years of development, WTCF has so far accumulated 211 members from 69 countries and regions. Through culture and tourism, WTCF has connected 140 cities and 71 industrial institutions from around the world, and enhanced its attraction, serving ability, guiding force, and influence in the tourism industry. WTCF has been acclaimed as the fastest-growing international tourism organization.

As one of the institutional members of WTCF, iQIYI has conducted many profound reports and cooperation activities during the events hosted by WTCF, such as the Fragrant Hills Summit, regional forums, and other large conference events. In 2016, both parties officially signed their strategic partnership agreement, and opened the iQIYI-WTCF official “iChannel”. As of today, the “iChannel” has published more than 165 videos including the promotional videos of WTCF and its member cities, with their cumulative views reaching over 500,000. iQIYI has become one of the important resource promotional platforms in the media matrix of WTCF.

In the future, WTCF will continuously boost the win-win development in three ways including city and city, city and institution, and institution and institution, so as to make people’s life better and the international exchanges and cooperation closer, and enable them to go on a trip at any time with more convenient ways.