Asian cultural tourism exhibition： culture drives tourism, and Asian tourism has broad prospects.

　　　　　　 CCTV News:As a part of the "Asian Civilization Dialogue Conference", the Asian Cultural Tourism Exhibition was held in Beijing Agricultural Exhibition Hall from 16th to 18th.

　　　　　　 This cultural tourism exhibition will showcase the achievements of cultural tourism development in China and Asian countries through theme exhibitions, world heritage video exhibitions and other forms. The exhibition scale is about 30,000 square meters, and cultural and tourism projects from 30 countries and regions are concentrated here.

　　　　　　 As the guest countries of this exhibition, tourism practitioners from Laos and Cambodia have brought their special projects.

　　　　　 Zhang Xilong, Ministry of Culture and Tourism:Laos and Cambodia are good neighbors, good partners and good friends of China. Over the years, with the construction and opening of China-Laos Railway, there have been more and more people-to-people exchanges between China and Laos. This year, we chose these two countries with cultural characteristics and this tourism as our guest countries.

　　　　　　 It is understood that Asian countries and regions have always been the most important markets for China in terms of outbound and inbound tourism. In the past fifteen years, overnight visitors from Asian countries have maintained an average annual growth rate of 7.2%. In 2018, among China citizens who choose to travel abroad, Asia accounted for 70%.

　　　　　 Dai Bin, Dean of china tourism academy:It should be said that China, like other Asian countries, is in the primary stage of mass tourism development, and our market prospect is broad and the potential is huge. In the past 2018, the number of citizens from China who went abroad exceeded 160 million, while the number of tourists from various countries who came to China and the number of inbound tourists from various countries and regions who came to China also exceeded 140 million. Therefore, we feel that the tourism development in China and Asia has a very broad prospect.