Tourism Trade Fair & Tourism Exhibition Held During the Summit

The Tourism Trade Fair and Tourism Exhibition were held on September 20th, Los Angeles local time.

During this year’s summit, 17 Chinese major tourist companies attended the trade fair including China International Travel Service Ltd.; China Travel Service Head Office Co., Ltd. and CAISSA Touristic; Beijing Tourism Group; Ctrip; Tuniu.com, and so on. They took this event as an opportunity to communicate and cooperate with famous tourism cities and exchange the ideas of travel products. The ideas include focusing on how to adapt to the new changes in the market and new trends in tourism consumption, cooperating to develop new tourism hot spots and the new travel style of deep tourism experience to jointly develop new tourism products, new routes, new scenic spots, and new programs to promote the further development of mutual tourism market.

From 2012 to 2016, the combined booth area of the five Fragrant Hills Tourism Summit amounted to more than 13,000 square meters. 469 entities participated in the Tourism Fair, producing 4,500 matched-up pairs of buyers and suppliers and a total contract value of 2.3 billion RMB (equivalent to 360 million US dollars).

During the summit, a number of WTCF members participated in the Tourism Exhibition including Beijing, Qingdao, Mudanjiang, Penang, Lima, Kunming, DFS, Air China, Seville, and Helsinki. Also, Cartagena, which applied for hosting the 2019 Summit, and Los Angeles, the hosting city of the summit, were also present. The Tourism Exhibition helps the exhibitors take advantage of the summit to actively promote city tourism resources and city brand culture, while exhibiting the uniquely natural and cultural styles of the cities.