UN Tourism and China’s Ministry of Tradition and Tourism have additional strengthened their strategic partnership as they work collectively to champion the sector’s position as a driver of worldwide cooperation and improvement.
Within the Chinese language capital, UN Tourism Secretary-Normal Pololikashvili met with China’s Minister of Tradition and Tourism Solar Yeli to advance essential priorities throughout the worldwide tourism agenda. These embody positioning tourism inside worldwide improvement cooperation to selling tourism schooling.
Moreover, the bilateral assembly additionally targeted on advancing the sector’s key position in rural improvement. The UN Tourism management acknowledged that the Chinese language authorities actively participates within the Finest Tourism Villages initiative by UN Tourism. In 2024, an extra 7 villages have been chosen because the Finest Tourism Villages, taking the entire in China to fifteen. This makes China the nation with probably the most villages given this recognition by UN Tourism.
UN Tourism additionally acknowledged China’s determination to increase the visa-free coverage for residents of 38 nations till the tip of 2025 and to strongly promote the measures for the handy fee companies for overseas guests. This coverage is anticipated to additional promote the event of Chinese language inbound tourism.
Advancing the International Tourism Financial system Discussion board
The official go to coincided with the International Tourism Financial system Discussion board (GTEF) Council Preparatory Assembly, held to chart a strategic roadmap for the Discussion board’s future. Since its institution in Macao SAR in 2012, the International Tourism Financial system Discussion board has been a significant bridge connecting tourism stakeholders from China and all over the world, fostering dialogue between policymakers, trade leaders, and entrepreneurs to advance sustainable tourism improvement.
The Preparatory Assembly, introduced collectively leaders from GTEF’s long-standing Companions and Supporting Items together with UN Tourism, World Journey & Tourism Council (WTTC), Pacific Asia Journey Affiliation (PATA), European Journey Fee (ETC), World Tourism Alliance (WTA), World Tourism Cities Federation (WTCF), the Worldwide Mountain Tourism Alliance (IMTA), the China Chamber of Tourism, and the Macao Authorities Tourism Workplace (MGTO). UN Tourism’s participation displays its continued dedication to GTEF, a partnership that started with the Discussion board’s institution in 2012 and was strengthened in 2023 to broaden GTEF’s international attain and affect.
Constructing on GTEF’s decade-long legacy of fostering significant dialogue within the international tourism economic system, individuals laid the groundwork for the GTEF Council, which can function the Discussion board’s everlasting governing physique for strategic management and decision-making. The GTEF Council goals to ascertain a strategic imaginative and prescient to place GTEF because the ‘Davos of Tourism,’ making a dynamic platform the place private and non-private stakeholders converge to form the trade’s future. Via this enhanced governance framework, GTEF will strengthen its position as a catalyst for innovation and cross-sector collaboration in international tourism.
