WTCF Attends BITE 2018

On June 15, the Beijing International Tourism Expo 2018 (BITE 2018) kicked off at the China National Convention Center in Beijing. World Tourism Cities Federation (WTCF) participated in the expo, and actively promoted its members.

WTCF set up a booth at the site of the expo. In order to better promote its member city tourism resources to the visitors, WTCF specially made promotional pamphlets about its member cities’ festivals and so on. Large numbers of visitors came to the booth, including WTCF’s city and institutional exhibitors as well as other visitors coming to the expo.

Mr. Ali Padron, Deputy Minister of Venezuela Ministry of Tourism, introduced the tourism situation of Venezuela and WTCF member city Cumana, which is one of the oldest cities in Latin America, with many five star hotels and other tourism related infrastructure to receive tourists. He also expressed that he welcomes Chinese tourists to visit Cumana and Venezuela. In the future, the nation will strengthen its Chinese language tour guide services so as to better attract Chinese tourists. Additionally, tourism representatives from the Czech Republic, Poland, other nations, and from many of WTCF’s members also had official conversations with WTCF.

The BITE 2018 has attracted exhibitors from 87 nations and regions of the world in total, and its gross area is as large as 30,000 square meters. The expo receives 2,100 exhibitors and about 90,000 visitors, and the number of professional visitors will amount to more than 12,000.

The expo will be held until June 17.