China Promotes Digital Tourism Cooperation with ASEAN

Original title: China promotes cooperation in digital tourism with ASEAN

Digital technology isculturetourismindustrySustainable development offers opportunities and potential, especially in the post-epidemic era. From December 8 to 10, the China-ASEAN Expo 2020 Tourism Exhibition will be held in Guilin, Guangxi. It will build a platform for e-commerce tourism, technology tourism, 5G network tourism and other exhibitions, exchanges and transactions, with the aim of promoting new technologies to enhance tourism.Industrial development, Deepening China-ASEAN digital tourism cooperation.

This year it’s China-ASEANDigital economyIn the year of cooperation, the theme of this year’s tourism exhibition is “Build the Belt and Road and share digital tourism”, taking the form of “offline physical exhibition + cloud tourism exhibition”, which attracts more than 120 people from 52 countries and regions. Exhibitors participated and the number of participants reached 100,000.

Zhang Xu, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China, pointed out that China and the ASEAN countries have great potential for cooperation in digital cultural tourism and the prospects are limitless.

At the China-ASEAN Digital Cultural Tourism Professional Cooperation Forum held during the tourism exhibition, Zhang Xu said that the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China will continue to promote the development of China’s digital tourism, continue to support the cooperation of China and the ASEAN countries in digital tourism and will encourage and promote digital cooperation in fighting epidemics in tourism, digital updates in tourism industry, cross-border cooperation in tourism e-commerce and safeguarding the security of digital tourism, and jointly create a new pattern of digital tourism without borders.

As the guest country of this year’s tourism expo, the Philippines actively participated in the expo and paid special visits here.Promotion meeting. The Philippine Minister of Tourism, Benadette Romulo Puyate, expressed through a video that she hopes to strengthen exchanges and cooperation through the tourism exhibition, jointly formulate tourism recovery plans and cooperation plans, and realize the recovery of international tourism at an early date.

China and ASEAN are countries and destinations of tourism origin of mutual importance. In 2019, personnel exchanges between the two parties exceeded 65 million. The bilateral strengthening of exchanges and cooperation in digital tourism will continue to inject momentum and vitality into the tourism development of the countries along the route.

China-ASEAN CentersecretaryPresident Chen Dehai said that in the China-ASEAN Digital Economy Cooperation Year, the two sides will focus on 5G, smart cities, e-commerce,Big dataMutual support and close cooperation in other fields. The China-ASEAN Center will continue to promote trade,investmentPragmatic cooperation in the fields of tourism, etc.

As for how the digital economy of tourism can contribute to the new China-ASEAN cooperation, Tang Xiaoyun, vice president of the China Tourism Research Institute, made suggestions for tourists.qualityTransformconsumptiondemandThe development of the digital economy of tourism includes the need to deepen the application of digital technology in the prevention and control of epidemics, and establish a China-ASEAN digital tourism and culture platform to build on the advantages of the digital economy.Internet ++ Travel “newdealPromote the facilitation of China-ASEAN travel payment, strengthen the application of scenarios, and promote the construction of trans-regional smart tourism destinations.

To promote China-ASEAN digital tourism cooperation, the Chinese Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the People’s Government of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region jointly launched the “China-ASEAN Digital Tourism Cooperation Initiative” on the 8th. includes the development of digital tourism to improve tourist satisfaction, the sense of acquisition and security as the axisobjectives; Strengthen digital cooperation in tourism against the epidemic; promote the digital update of the tourism industry; explore cross-border cooperation in tourism e-commerce; promote investment facilitation in the field of digital tourism; guide trainingmechanismBuild and talentCirculation; Promote the establishment of a multilevel communication mechanism and maintain the security of digital tourism.

(Source: China News Network)

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