China News Service, Guilin, December 11 (Ou Huilan) On December 10, Shen Weihu, deputy mayor of Guilin, Guangxi, introduced at the 2020 China-ASEAN Expo Tourism Exhibition Press Conference and Award Ceremony. There are 49 countries and Regional institutions in China, 20 domestic provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government), and 14 cities in Guangxi organized delegations to participate in the conference. Professional conferences were held on the first day of the conference period, attracting nearly 320 business representatives to participate in one-on-one trade negotiations between buyers and sellers to achieve trade More than 3000 meetings were held.

  This year's tourism exhibition has set up six categories of exhibition areas: "One Belt and One Road" theme pavilion, overseas tourism professional exhibition hall, international tourism commodity exhibition hall, tourism consumption exhibition hall, Guangxi tourism image exhibition hall, and domestic tourism professional exhibition hall. +The exhibition form of "Travel Expo on the Cloud" has a total of 300 booths.

Among them, all ten ASEAN countries will participate in special decorations, with about 700 exhibiting companies, 300 specially invited buyers, 500 registered buyers, and about 2,000 professional visitors.

The picture shows the award of the Best Creative Award for the 2020 China-ASEAN Expo Tourism Exhibition.

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  2020 is the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area and the year of China-ASEAN Digital Economic Cooperation.

The 2020 China-ASEAN Expo Tourism Exhibition closely follows the theme of China-ASEAN digital economic cooperation, taps cooperation potential, builds tourism cooperation platforms in the fields of e-commerce tourism, technology tourism, 5G network tourism, and smart city tourism, expands communication in the tourism field, and promotes China Cooperation with ASEAN cultural tourism.

  The tourism exhibition has set up the best group exhibition award, the best display award, the best creativity award, the best merchandise promotion award and the best merchandise sales popularity award. A total of 97 participating units have won awards.

The picture shows the Togolese ethnic crafts attracting the audience's attention.

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  According to Shen Weihu, this year's tourism exhibition focuses on the integrated development of culture and tourism.

A series of special tourism promotions were held during the conference to strengthen tourism exchanges.

The Philippines, the country of honor, and Yunnan Province, the theme province, held cultural tourism promotion activities during the conference.

In addition, overseas Australia, Poland, Croatia, Mauritius, Fiji, South Pacific island countries and other countries and regions, and domestic Ningxia, Guizhou, Ningbo and other three provinces and cities held special promotion meetings during the exhibition.

Guilin City held a tourism project investment conference.

Through the display and promotion of local characteristic culture, tourism resources, and key projects, deepen the exchanges and cooperation between the government and tourism enterprises, and further strengthen the complementary advantages of tourism.

  The China-ASEAN Digital Cultural Tourism Professional Cooperation Forum, which was held at the same time, invited senior domestic and foreign cultural tourism enterprises, industry experts, and mainstream media to focus on the development trend of cultural tourism in the new era, and jointly discussed the integrated development of digital, technological and cultural tourism.

The forum will greatly promote the vigorous development of cultural tourism.

The picture shows the scene of the China-ASEAN Digital Cultural Tourism Professional Cooperation Forum.

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  The tourism exhibition promotes the upgrading and development of Guilin's international tourist attractions and creates a "Guilin Platform".

The goal of this year's tourism exhibition is to build a high-end, standardized, intelligent and international tourist resort, and promote Guilin to build a new benchmark for tourism development in the new era.