From November 13th to 14th, “2020 World Tourism Alliance·Xianghu Dialogue” was held in Hangzhou City of Zhejiang Province. Those attended the opening ceremony and delivered speeches were Zhangxu, vice cultural and tourism minister, Zhang Zexi, Vice Chairman of Zhejiang Provincial CPPCC Committee, Duan Qiang, chairman of the World Tourism Alliance, and Rafael Dezcallar de Mazarredo, Spanish ambassador to China. Mr. Zurab Pololikashvili, Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organization, delivered a speech through video. Key speeches were delivered by Rita Marques, Portuguese secretary of state for the tourism, and Gloria Guevara, president and CEO of the World Travel & Tourism Council.
Zhang Xu said that in this special period, World Tourism Alliance gathered elites in international tourism to discuss the plan for world tourism development by holding this conference both online and offline. It had significant realistic significance to tourism recovery and rejuvenation. We needed to stick to multilateralism, deepen international tourism cooperation and promote world tourism recovery and rejuvenation; to support enterprises, create a sound development environment, inspire innovative potential and help to maintain a healthy business; to provide high-quality tourism services and products, make good use of the latest technologies and contribute to the welfare of people in the world. We must make full use of the connecting function of tourism to enhance the friendly communication of people, so as to make full use of the leading effect of business organizations and international organizations of tourism. A communication platform would be built in this way to assist global tourism recovery and sustainable development in the future, which would consolidate the basis of a community for mankind with a shared future.
Duan Qiang said that the mankind would win the fight against the Covid-19. The tendencies of the world economy recovery as well as of the restart and prosperity of the global tourism wouldn’t change. We were confident for the future. We were looking forward to the “2020 World Tourism Alliance·Xianghu Dialogue” to gather wisdom, reach consensus and gather strength so as to stipulate new plans for the recovery and prosperity of the world tourism. Tourism was a sunrise industry to meet people’s wish for a better life. We needed to be confident and to engage in win-win cooperation to step toward to the aim of “tourism making the world and life to be better” so as to contribute to global tourism development and people’s happy life.
The theme of the conference was “confidence and revolution·shaping the future”. Representatives from 24 countries and regions attended both online and offline.