Beijing International Tourism Expo 2016 Opens Today

On the morning of May 20th, Beijing International Tourism Expo 2016 hosted by Beijing Municipal Commission of Tourism Development opens formally at National Agriculture Exhibition Center. After 12 years of development, Beijing International Tourism Expo (BITE) has become a professional, broad, influential and efficient world-class tourism expo, an important communication & trade platform for tourism industry home and abroad.

（Opening ceremony）

This expo will last for 3 days and different activities will be conducted on different days. May 20th is the professional day when industry insiders will visit, purchase and negotiate. May 21st and May 22nd are public days when price discount will be provided. On the public days, there will be featured performance from all the world and promotion events. There will be abundant exhibition and sales of discounted tourism products.

About one thousand exhibitors and buyers are invited to attend this expo. They are from 80 countries & districts from all the world and 30 provincial districts of China.

（Secretary-General of WTCF Song Yu Speaks）

The exhibition area is nearly 22,000 m2, 15,000 m2 for Chinese exhibitors and 6,000 m2 for other exhibitors. Pavilion 1 is for China’s tourism institutions. Pavilion 3 and Pavilion 5 are for China’s tourism institutions, tourism areas, tourism planning & designing enterprises, tourism media and so on. Pavilion 11 is for international tourism institutions (including Hong Kong and Macao), and travel agents of China.

（Performance on the opening ceremony）

This expo lays more emphasis on promotion of new products and new technologies like VR technology in tourism, which brings brand new tourism experience to the audience.