On August 8th, the 2023 Cross-Strait (Anhui) Travel Merchants Conference, co-sponsored by Cross-Strait Tourism Exchange Association, Anhui Provincial People’s Government, Taiwan Province Travel Merchants Association, Taiwan Province Travel Industry Quality Assurance Association and Taiwan Province China Travel Association, was grandly opened in Hefei, Anhui. Before the meeting, Wang Qingxian, Governor of Anhui Provincial People’s Government, and Lu Yingchuan, Vice Minister of Culture and Tourism, met with important guests from Taiwan Province. Vice Minister Lu Yingchuan and Vice Governor Sun Yong of Anhui Provincial People’s Government attended and delivered speeches at the opening ceremony. More than 700 guests and travel agents from 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) in mainland China and the tourism industry in mainland China and Taiwan Province attended the event.
In his speech at the opening ceremony, Lu Yingchuan pointed out that tourism is a sunrise industry and a happiness industry, and it is an important indicator to improve people’s living standards. It has become an important content to meet people’s needs for a better life and a realistic requirement to promote people’s all-round development. Cross-strait tourism has effectively enhanced the exchanges and feelings of compatriots on both sides of the strait and promoted cross-strait economic and social cooperation. The 2023 Cross-Strait Travel Merchants Conference is the largest cross-strait tourism industry exchange activity in recent years. We warmly welcome Taiwan Province compatriots to visit the mainland more often, and sincerely hope that the platform of the Cross-Strait Travel Merchants Conference will become better and better and become a golden brand of tourism exchange and cooperation with unique cross-strait characteristics and advantages.
Sun Yong said in his speech that Anhui has always placed tourism exchanges and cooperation between Anhui and Taiwan in a prominent position, and Taiwan Province has been ranked first in Anhui’s inbound tourist market for many years. Tourism is an important platform to promote exchanges and exchanges between Anhui and Taiwan, and it is also an important way to enhance the well-being of compatriots on both sides of the strait. In the future, we will deepen the cooperation between domestic and foreign tourism markets, especially the interaction between Anhui and Taiwan, and provide a broad space for cross-strait tourism to further deepen cooperation and exchanges.
In his speech, the organizer of Taiwan said that the cross-strait travel agents’ conference is an important platform to enhance the emotion, exchange and interaction of the cross-strait tourism industry. The cooperation space of the cross-strait tourism industry is infinitely broad, and the cross-strait tourism market will certainly benefit each other.
This year’s Cross-Strait Travel Agents Conference has carefully set up many links, such as “cross-strait industry representatives exchange speeches”, “Taiwan culture and tourism preferential policies release”, “cross-strait travel agents negotiation and exchange meeting” and “mainland tourism products promotion meeting”, to build a platform for in-depth exchanges and cooperation between the cross-strait tourism industry. After the conference, nearly 300 Taiwan Province travel agents will be organized to inspect and step on the line in Anhui.