Cheng Hong, Deputy Chairman of World Tourism Cities Federation Council: WTCF wil

September 20-22, 2015, WTCF Rabat & Fes Fragrant Hills Tourism Summit 2015 will be held in Morocco for the first time. Before the opening ceremony, Cheng Hong, Deputy Chairman of World Tourism Cities Federation Council, Vice Mayor of Beijing accepted interviews and introduced the highlights of the summit.

World Tourism Cities Federation (WTCF) is a non-profit non-governmental international organization initiated by Beijing and voluntarily formed by Berlin, Los Angeles, Barcelona and many other world famous tourism cities and tourism-related institutions. The Headquarter and Secretariat are located in Beijing.

"The summit held by WTCF is a comprehensive platform," said Cheng Hong. 151 member units are connected closely by WTCF, to discuss the laws, share the successful experiences, carry out mutually beneficial cooperation and stimulate the development of tourism cities.

After voted by the Council in 2014, this year's summit will be held in Rabat and Fez in Morocco, and this is the first time for the summit to be held abroad. 400 people including 311 representatives from 100 member units and other relevant institutions from 42 countries and regions will attend the summit.

"The international influence of WTCF has a new improvement and we will establish contact with World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)." introduced by Cheng Hong. As one of the highlights, World Tourism Organization will conduct a two-year cooperation on World Tourism City Performance Report with WTCF, and the initiatory research contents will be presented on the Forum of the summit.

Furthermore, the summit 2015 also has new features in the contents. WTCF will release the ranking of the world tourism cities for the first time, revealed by Cheng Hong. "The ranking not only consider the existing scenic spots and the tourism scale, but also bring into the refined indexes like potentiality, attraction of the tourism resources and network supports, to provide reference for tourism cities."

From 58 member units at the beginning of WTCF to 151 member units at present, the development of WTCF is obvious for all to see. China is now the biggest tourism-source-market of the world and the number of outbound tourists was over 100 million. China's contribution to the world tourism is the support of WTCF, Cheng Hong said.