Exhibitors from 50 countries attend China International Travel Mart 2020 in Shanghai
Travel Biz News —-
The China International Travel Mart 2020 (CITM 2020), co-sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Civil Aviation Administration of China, and the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government, kicked off at the Shanghai New International Expo Center today (November 16 ).
With the theme of “Ancient Civilization of China · Beautiful Scenery of Shanxi”, Culture and Tourism Department of Shanxi Province has displayed Shanxi’s rich cultural tourism resources and products, such as “three world heritages” and three tourism sectors which are “the Yellow River, the Great Wall, and the Taihang Mountains”, showing its unique charm to the world.
With 45,000 sqm’s area and 1,517 standard booths, CITM 2020 features around 1,500 exhibitors from about 50 countries and regions as well as 31 Chinese provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions.
The three-day event will introduce to visitors the latest achievements of Chinese and global cultural and tourism sectors, promote products and brands from both home and abroad, and offer business networking opportunities.
Xinhua adds from Beijing – The CITM 2020 is expected to be an important measure to promote the formation of China’s new development paradigm with domestic circulation as the mainstay and domestic and international circulations reinforcing each other, and to accelerate the high-quality economic development.
In addition to bringing the latest high-quality cultural and tourism products to the public offline, the mart will also launch an online “cloud exhibition” which allows exhibitors to showcase new cultural and tourism resources and new products to audience at home and abroad.
In terms of the transactions, buyers and sellers can make appointment matching through the online system before the exhibition and conduct one-on-one online negotiation, or directly talk offline in the negotiation area of the exhibition hall.
The CITM 2020 also highlights the integration of cultural and tourism industries with a number of international cultural and tourism cooperation projects and achievements to be shown at the mart. Palace Museum, the National Museum of China and other museums will set up booths to showcase the fine arts of Chinese traditional and modern culture.
Inputs from Xinhua / Media Outreach Hong Kong / China Cultural Center in Nepal
Nov. 16 , 2020
