On August 23rd, Smart Tourism Branch Forum of China-Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Forum on the Digital Economy Industry was held in Chongqing municipality. Zhang Xu, vice minister of culture and tourism, delivered a speech through video. Cai Yunge, vice mayor of Chongqing, attended and delivered a speech.
More than 150 guests from nearly 10 countries were invited by SCO to attend the conference online or offline. The theme of the forum was “Empowered by Digital and Smart Technology: A New Era of Culture Plus Tourism for China and the SCO”, centered around which, the forum showed the latest achievement, exchanged ideas on new modes and looked into the new future of smart tourism. During the forum held the launching ceremony of “Chongqing Window of International Culture and Tourism” and “China (Chongqing)-Shanghai Cooperation Organization Smart Tourism Center” as well as the establishment of “Chongqing-Discovering SCO Multi-Language Cloud Exhibition Hall”.
In the key speech section, guests exchanged ideas relating to themes including “international tourism and smart tourism”, “in China: integration enables smart tourism to be more smart” and “big data and smart technology empowers smart tourism development”. In salon section, guests discussed new opportunities of international cultural and tourism cooperation centered around the theme of “deepening the cultural and tourism communication between Chongqing and member states of SCO” via 5G video conference.
According to introduction, “China (Chongqing)-Shanghai Cooperation Organization Smart Tourism Center” aimed to build a SCO smart cultural and tourism communication and service platform with 5 tasks which were deciding development standards, building development platform, promoting market progressing, developing cultural and tourism brands and educating talents, all of which would be realized by joint effort. The positioning of “Chongqing Window of International Culture and Tourism” was “window”, “trade” and “tourism”. It had three functions which were international cultural and tourism communication, international exhibition of cultural and tourism goods and public service of outbound tourism. “Chongqing-Discovering SCO Multi-Lanage Cloud Exhibition Hall” was a new platform for international, digital and smart cultural and tourism communication between Chongqing and member states of the SCO, built by culture and tourism committee of Chongqing municipal government.