The Annual Meeting of Committee of Tourism-Related Businesses Held during the Summit

During the summit, on September, 19th, the annual meeting of Committee of Tourism-Related Businesses was held by World Tourism Cities Federation (WTCF). The 35 attendees included committee representatives and other institutional members.

The committee report was given by Yu Ningning, Director of the Committee of Tourism-Related Businesses and President and General Manager of China International Travel Service. During the meeting, major issues were discussed, including, new members introduction, exhibition joint participation, selection of 2017 committee’s president and vice president, cooperation with other committees and others.

The Committee of Tourism-Related Businesses is a non-profit committee organization that was founded during the Second Fragrant Hills Tourism Summit in September, 2013, by 28 large organizations and companies from tourism-related fields from all over the world. Director of the committee, Yu Ningning, said in her speech that, “the Committee of Tourism-Related Businesses has focused efforts on the development plan and annual plan of WTCF, under the uniform deployment of the latter for the last three years. We have arranged many activities including exhibitions and forums participation, exhibition organization, facilitating tourism marketing and consumer marketing researches, tourism destination investigation, tourism and financial insurance integration, tourism and airline routes cooperation, online and offline travelling experiences introduction, Weibo and WeChat promotion, tourism products marketing, annual review meeting, and many other meetings and activities. These events have contributed greatly to expand the influence of WTCF around the world and the committee will continue to play an active role in promotion of tourist destinations.”