The Asia-Europe Meeting Forum and Exhibition on Tourism Investment and Cooperation held from October 19th –22nd  closed yesterday in Yantai.International Exibition Center.

World Travel Online (www.lvyou168.cn), which is the online project of China Business Network, was invited to attend the exhibition by the ASEM committee as the supportive media and one of the exhibitioners as well.

French Tourism Officer is delivering speech in the forum

Speech given by minister of Ministry Tourism Malaysia

The Asia-Europe Meeting Forum and Exhibition on Tourism Investment and Cooperation is regarded as the first tourism event in such a big scale since the ASEM was set up. With the main theme of “tourism development, investment promotion, cooperation enhancement”, the meeting aims to promote partner relationships, encourage investment and trade and gain mutual prosperity among member nations through exchanges and collaborations in tourism trade. The event arranged four aspects of activities including forum on tourism cooperation, exhibitions, business discussion and cultural tour promotion.

Held on 19th October, the Asia-Europe Meeting Forum was one of the most important parts of this event. Yi Xiaozhun, assistant minister of China Commerce Department, addressed in the opening ceremony. Wang Zhifa, deputy director of China National Tourism Office, delivered speech on the forum. Tourism Officers from Malaysia, France, Korea and Japan also gave their speeches to the audience. The forum attracted more than 500 people including guests from oversees and travel enthusiasts.

The exhibition had received positive reactions from member nations of ASEM and 39 member nations and 31 provinces of China attended the exhibition with 1800 billboard confirmed. 110 delegations were from oversees among the 150 important delegations. Among them people could find LAOS Tourism Board, Ministry of Tourism Malaysia, Ministry of Tourism Vietnam, Lithuania Avanturas, Angus Council UK, Korea Tourism Association and China Business Network. Every exhibitioner deliberately decorated their platform and presented people the most special tourism resources.

Exibition Booth of  Malaysia

Pinky Japanese Booth

Officials from Scotland Angus are exchanging ideas with www.lvyou168.cn Jounalist

Booth of China Bussiness Network and www.lvyou168.cn

“ The exhibition provides a excellent platform for exchange and helps us seeking opportunity. We are confident in introducing our travel projects to the whole world through this event.” An officer from Korea told the reporter. At the same time, Cockayne Chamber, located in Yantai and famous for its mirage took hands with Angus Castle, Scotland and allied as the twin tourism resorts. The Angus counselor believed that the diversity and complementarity between two kinds of culture would accelerate win-win cooperation and inactivity for two parts. Obviously, the event had set up a platform for tourism cooperation as well as cultural exchanges.

According to statistics, more than one billion people have attended the event which recorded in the exhibition history of Yantai City. Most of the visitors showed their great interests in outbound travel projects.