International organizations will take the lead in discussing ways to tourism revitalize | IMTA Annual Conference will be held soon
On 21 December, 2021, the 2021 IMTA Annual Conference will hold via videoconferencing for the first time. The main venue will at IMTA headquarters, and members all over the world attended the Conference via videoconferencing. Attendees share insights and discussed on the theme “How Can International Organizations Play a Leading Role in Global Tourism Recovery and Reshaping Governance”. IMTA leaders and member units, international organizations, industry experts, and media representatives will connect online and offline in the same time . The Conference will also invite leaders of the Guizhou Provincial Government to address the Conference. Joining hands to explored the methods and patterns of normalizing pandemic prevention and control and reshaping tourism in the Post-COVID world, and promised to jointly face challenges and revitalize world tourism via optimism, solidarity, teamwork, and creativity.
During the Conference, Dominique de Villepin, Chairman of the IMTA and former French Prime Minister, and Shao Qiwei, Vice Chairman of the IMTA, will address the Conference. He Yafei, Secretary-General of the IMTA, will brief on the IMTA’s Annual Work Report and give a keynote speech. Guizhou Province, the initiator of the IMTA, attaches great importance to and provides strong support to the Annual Conference of IMTA. The Vice Governor of the People's Government of Guizhou Province Tan Jiong will attend and address the Conference.
Focusing on the two topics of "Reshaping and Governance of Tourism during the Pandemic" and "Innovative Construction of a Future-oriented International Tourism Organization Cooperation Platform and Mechanism", Francisco Francali, Honorary Secretary-General of World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), Julia Simpson, President and CEO of World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), Xu Jing, Former Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, UNWTO, Dai Bin, President of China Tourism Academy (CTA), Wei Xiao’an, President of China Tourism Leisure Association, and Emma Chen, Global Vice President of the International Organization Für Volkskunst (IOV), Chen Tiejun,Chairman of Hainan Tourism Investment&Development Co., Ltd. and other guests will also give keynote speeches.
In addition, all the leaders who came to the Conference will also licensing for the hosting site of 2022 “International Mountain Tourism Day”, inauguration IMTA Mountain and Hot Spring Wellness Specialized Committee, and issuing certificates to new IMTA members
Since its establishment in 2017, the IMTA has always adhered to the mission and positioning of "protecting mountain resources, inheriting mountain civilization, promoting mountain economy, benefiting mountain people, and committed to sustainable mountain tourism", and insisting on the professional positioning of "International Mountain Tourism". In terms of operation, the IMTA is intensively cultivated within the 9 major business areas, and is committed to building the IMTA into a world-renowned platform in the field of mountain tourism. IMTA Annual Conference, as a key platform to serve our members and the development of the tourism industry, has been held four years in a row. This year’s Conference aims at figuring out how to work with IMTA members to face new challenges, and play the role of a participant, a practitioner, and a contributor in revitalizing world tourism, in a world with normalized pandemic prevention and control.
Faced with new starting points, new opportunities, and new challenges, how will the 2021 IMTA Annual Conference reflect the mission and responsibility of an international organization? What new ideas will it bring to the global tourism industry, and will help the world tourism industry? What role does the recovery and revitalization of China play? The Conference is coming soon!
