The 2024 China Culture and Tourism Industries Exposition started in north China's Tianjin Municipality on Friday, featuring the participation of over 2,000 culture and tourism enterprises.
The four-day event, hosted by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, aims to display the vitality of China's culture and tourism industries and promote the high-quality development of such industries.
The expo comprises nine main exhibition halls, covering a total exhibition area of 150,000 square meters.
Popular tourist destinations and cultural tourism products from all parts of China have been represented.
A hundred of popular travelers from the United States, Italy, Russia, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos and other countries were also drawn by the rich cultural experiences and tourism projects presented at the event.
"I was most impressed by those dance performances, because we can share the experience of the cultural aspect," said a Vietnamese tourist.
The expo also establishes a new platform for trading and one-to-one matchmaking, which has attracted foreign companies to seek cooperation opportunities in China.
"We can see a lot of increasing requests from French tourists to come to China. Also, the 15-day visa-free policy implemented last year is really helping also to attract more people, both for business, but also for tourism," said Guillaume Hubert de Fraisse, CEO of Falux Group.
"Nowadays, 'tourism-plus' has become a new direction for our tourism industry. Through the integration and combination of tourism and other fields, the tourism industry can be extended and achieve greater development," said Zhu Yihai, representative of Tianjin Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism.
Over 2,000 enterprises participate in expo on China's culture, tourism industries
