How is the situation of the World Tourism Alliance headquarters settling in Hangzhou?

Beijing news on December 17, the signing ceremony of the strategic cooperation document between the World Travel Alliance (WTA) and the Zhejiang Provincial Government was held in Beijing, marking the official settlement of the WTA headquarters in Xianghu, Xiaoshan, Hangzhou.

According to international practice, two-way selection between international organizations and local governments in host countries is a common model for selecting the location of the headquarters of international organizations. It is also a model of cooperative development and mutual benefit. After careful research, the World Tourism Alliance decided to select a city nationwide with obvious advantages in tourism industry development and geographical location as the headquarters of the alliance. Representatives of outstanding tourism cities in the east, middle and west - Xi'an, Chengdu, Guangzhou, and Hangzhou Five cities including Xiamen and Xiamen have become candidate cities. In line with the principle of fairness, openness and transparency, the World Tourism Alliance Organizing Committee organized the members of the jury to hold a headquarters site selection meeting and strictly followed the "World Tourism Alliance Headquarters Site Selection Voting Rules" to conduct on-site voting, on-site counting, and on-site vote counting. In the end, Hangzhou ranked first in total scores and was successfully selected as the city where the World Tourism Alliance headquarters will be located.

According to the cooperation document signed by both parties, the World Tourism Alliance and the Zhejiang Provincial Government will establish a close cooperation mechanism to jointly promote the construction and operation of the alliance headquarters base, deepen international tourism exchanges and cooperation, and promote the health of Zhejiang’s tourism industry. sustainable development. The World Tourism Alliance will hold major international tourism events in Zhejiang, actively help Zhejiang introduce international tourism talents, and support Zhejiang in introducing the headquarters of large-scale well-known domestic and foreign tourism groups to settle in Zhejiang. The Zhejiang Provincial Government will do a good job in ensuring the establishment of the World Tourism Alliance headquarters in Hangzhou.

The World Tourism Alliance was established in China on September 12, 2017. It is the first global, comprehensive, non-governmental and non-profit world tourism organization initiated and established by China. The WTA World Tourism Alliance takes "tourism to make the world and life better" as its purpose, tourism promotes peace, tourism promotes development, and tourism promotes poverty alleviation as its mission, and based on the principles of mutual trust, mutual respect, mutual benefit and win-win, it cooperates with the United Nations World Tourism Organization The two-wheel drive complements each other and jointly promotes exchanges and cooperation in the global tourism industry at the non-governmental and governmental levels.