Opening Ceremony (14:00-14:30)

Host

Ms. Sima Hong, Vice Mayor of Beijing, Executive Vice Chairman of the WTCF Council

Speech by Mr. Yin Yong, Mayor of Beijing, Chairman of the WTCF Council

Speech by Ms. Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, Former President of the Republic of Croatia

Speech by Mr. José Luis Sanz Ruiz, Mayor of Seville, Spain

Speech by Ms. Pansy Ho, Vice Chairman & Secretary-General of Global Tourism Economy Forum (GTEF)

Speech by Mr. Wang Xudong, Member of the CPC Leading Party Members Group of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China, and Director of the Palace Museum

Mayors' Dialogue Session (14:30-15:10)

  Topic: Innovation-Driven Consumption Growth of International Tourism Cities

Host

Ms. Tian Wei, CMG-CGTN Host

Mr. Jantirar Abay Yigzaw, Vice Mayor of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Mr. Gao Wenqi, Vice Mayor of Changsha, China

Mr. Khalid EI Fataoui, Vice Mayor of Marrakech, Morocco, President of the Chinese-Moroccan Friendship Association

Research Release Session (15:10-15:30)

Release of the Quantifying Tourism in City Destinations: Towards a Global Database of Urban Tourism

 Ms. Lorena Villar Adela, Senior Project Specialist of Tourism Market Intelligence & Competitiveness, UNWTO

Release of the World Tourism Cities Development Report (2022)

Mr. Li Baochun, Executive Deputy Secretary-General of WTCF

Thematic Speech Session (15:30-17:30)

Host

Mr. Richard Matuzevich, Senior Manager of WTCF Secretariat

Ms. Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, Director of Macao Government Tourism Office of the Macao SAR Government

Topic: Building a World Centre of Tourism and Leisure through "Tourism+" inter-sectorial integration

Mr. Patrick Bontinck, CEO of visit.brussels, Belgium

Topic: The European City Strategy towards a positive impact Tourism

Mr. Wang Wei, Senior Vice President of Trip.com Group

Topic: Opportunities for Tourism Development under The New Consumption Trends

Mr. Liu Yanxiang, Vice President of Meituan

Topic: Internet Stimulates the Vitality of Service Consumption

Ms. Chen Xiaoyun, Vice President of POP MART

Topic: The Value and Cross-Sector Integration of Trendy IP

Ms. Li Xiaowan, General Manager of Baidu Information Distribution Platform

Topic: AI Reshapes the World with Boundless Intelligence

Ms. Jiang Ying, Co-Founder & President of Scenery Culture

Topic: From "Illustrating Chinese Tales in Sceneries" to "Illustrating the Worldwide Tales in Sceneries with a Typical Chinese Way"

Mr. Guido Brettschneider, CEO of TUI China Travel Co., Ltd.

Topic: Charting Tourism's Future: Trends and China's Prominence