A Jiangsu delegation attended the 2019 China International Travel Mart (CITM) held in Kunming, Yunnan from November 15 to 17 and garnered the highest awards for excellent organization and exhibition booth design.
Founded in 1998, CITM represents one of the most important international exhibitions for tourism and offers great ideas and concepts for travel in the Asia-Pacific region.
An area of 774 square meters was earmarked for 86 exhibition booths to be shared by 308 Jiangsu delegates. The number of exhibitors and the scale of the exhibition were second only to those of the Yunan delegation, and was Jiangsu’s largest ever since it began participating in the event.
More than 20 outstanding cultural tourism enterprises from Nanjing, Suzhou, Yangzhou, Huai'an and Lianyungang, as well as various districts, were assembled to demonstrate their tourist attractions, rural tourist areas, and resorts. On display were 50 kinds of cultural tourism products with artistic characteristics unique to Jiangsu.
Nanjing, Suzhou and Changzhou were included in a list of China's major transportation tourism destinations. Nanjing was selected as one of China’s top 10 cities that stood out in combining travel and tourism with aviation trips while Suzhou and Changzhou were rated among the top 10 cities in promoting cultural travels using high-speed railways. Jiangsu emerged as among the top award-winning provinces at the CITM.
Master-level artists demonstrated their skills right on site. They performed paper-cutting, dough-making, wicker assembly, woodcarving, root carving, engraving porcelain, and pyrographics, proving the profound cultural heritage of Jiangsu.
“Many foreigners came to buy my creations, which shows that foreigners are more and more interested in Chinese culture and increasingly come to embrace it,” said Wang Xiaoming, an inheritor of dough sculpture, a city-level intangible cultural heritage item from Lianyungang.
This year’s edition received representatives and exhibitors from 75 countries and regions and housed more than 3,800 booths in the exhibition area, reflecting the successful integration of cultural and tourism departments across the country.
(source:jschina.com.cn)
