Global Tourism Vacation Forum 2009 held in China, Shangri-la
Global Tourism Vacation Forum 2009 held in China, Shangri-la. (PRNewsFoto/www.itmacom.com)
BEIJING CHINA
BEIJING, Nov. 9 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- 76 years ago, the British writer
James Hilton wrote "Lost Horizon," a book of beautiful writing that depicted
to the world an idyllic vacation resort paradise full of dreams and poetry --
Shangri-La. On November 9th, 2009, the Global Tourism Vacation Forum 2009 is
being held in a Shangri-La Resort prototype -- the China Diqing Shangri-La.
The theme of the forum is "enter into a New Era of Vacation Tourism,"
which is declaring, "a new era for vacation tourism to experience original,
natural ecological beauty and taste of unique cultures has arrived!"
Guests and journalists from China, Greece, South Korea, Switzerland,
Bangladesh, Indonesia, Bulgaria, Oman, Chile, Turkey, Nepal, Pakistan, India,
Hungary, Peru, Pakistan, Malaysia and other 22 countries participated in the
forum.
At the Forum opening ceremony, Governor Chen Jianguo Diqing announced to
the world: Our goal is to build Diqing to become the world's top tourist
resort, and Shangri-La to become the world's tourism treasure, so that
"Shangri-La really becomes the world's Shangri-La!"
The Global Tourism Vacation Forum is founded by International Tourism
Marketing Association, which is the grand international annual conference.
http://www.itmacom.com is the only authorized operating agency and contact for
live media to the world. China's CCTV, People's Daily, People, Xinhuanet,
Zhongxin News Agency, Guangming Daily, CRI, CNR, China Tourism News 10
mainstream media and Malaysian National News Agency, Associated Press of
Pakistan, Nepal's National News Agency, and Chile's National Television from
12 foreign news agencies were represented at the Forum to report.
