What opportunities does the Belt and Road bring to the tourism industry?

First of all, infrastructure interconnection will greatly enhance tourism accessibility. Especially in the central and western regions of China along the Silk Road, the traffic conditions will be greatly improved, the major tourist markets in the east will be greatly promoted to enter the destinations with concentrated tourism resources in the central and western regions, and the border tourism between neighboring countries and border provinces of China will be significantly enhanced. Provinces along the Belt and Road should actively use the newly established Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), existing CDB, ADB and other capital channels to promote infrastructure construction and actively attract powerful enterprises at home and abroad.

Secondly, countries along the Belt and Road have signed a memorandum of cooperation to simplify visa procedures for personnel exchanges, which will greatly promote inbound tourism and outbound tourism. It can reverse the stagnant or even slightly declining trend of inbound tourism for many years. The vigorous development of outbound tourism will accelerate the development and increase more exotic destination countries and tourism products. Especially other countries in Central Asia and ASEAN except Xinmatai will be the latest development direction of China travel agency enterprises, investors and online travel OTA and APP.

Third, in the focus of cooperation, it is particularly proposed to build international boutique tourism routes and tourism products with the characteristics of the Silk Road, which will be an important direction for local governments and enterprises along the Silk Road to carry out tourism planning, planning, design, investment, construction and operation in the next few years. In this process, it is urgent to highlight the characteristics and integrate and coordinate. At present, all the provinces on the Silk Road have put forward their own positioning, and their tourism products also need different positioning to avoid duplication.

Fourth, promote the 2 1 century maritime silk road cruise tourism cooperation. The Maritime Silk Road involves various port cities along the eastern coast, pushing cruise tourism and maritime tourism to a big step. Simplifying visa procedures, customs clearance procedures and even reciprocal visa exemption will not only attract the three major cruise companies in the world to settle in, but also open up more home ports and port-calling routes, and will also create a better prospect for the China government and enterprises to invest in cruise port facilities and China enterprises to set up cruise fleets and routes. The South China Sea can also continue to declare its sovereignty and gain more international discourse power through more and more China people visiting the island.