WTCF Held a Promotion Conference in Perth, Australia

On December 7, World Tourism Cities Federation (WTCF) held a promotion conference in Perth, the fourth largest city in Australia. More than 30 representatives from Tourism Western Australia, the Perth government, tourism enterprises and media in Perth attended the conference. Mrs. Anlin Sun, Deputy Consul General of the Chinese Consulate General in Perth was invited to the event.

With the purpose of further increasing the Federation’s influence in Oceania, perfecting the member distribution in Oceania and seeking cooperation with famous Oceanian tourist destinations and tourism enterprises, from December 3 to 12, WTCF sent representatives to Australia, New Zealand and Fiji to launch promotion and investigation activities, and hosted a special promotion conference at the invitation of Tourism Western Australia.

At the conference, representatives from Tourism Western Australia introduced the tourism resources in Western Australia first. The tourism resources in Western Australia are pretty abundant, but all along, it is not widely known by the world. Western Australia boarders the Indian Ocean and is the biggest state in Australia whose area takes up one third of the total Australian area and is equivalent to the area of Western Europe. Western Australia has many desserts and salt lakes, rich mineral resources and is scarcely populated, which makes its natural landscape and environment still in aboriginality. Western Australia is the state with the richest primitive natural landscape in Australia, one of the most typical Australia-style areas and the richest state in Australia.

Yan Han, WTCF Deputy Secretary-General introduced WTCF’s development history, service items and cooperation prospects to the audience. He expressed the Federation’s wish to join hands with Western Australia to enhance city-city, city-organization and organization-organization multi-field exchanges and cooperation though tourism, and to further promote Western Australia tourism.

Representatives from the tourism industry in Perth showed great interest in WTCF, talked with the WTCF Secretariat about issues concerned and expressed their wish for further understanding and cooperation.

Just before the conference, Huang Qinguo, Chinese Consul General in Perth invited the WTCF delegation to a meeting with him. The two parties exchanged views on issues of promoting tourism cooperation between China and Western Australia, strengthening city to city communications, creating tourism exchange platforms and expanding tourism service functions.