Officials from Hainan have taken at the mantel of the realm Travel & Tourism Council Global Summit because the 2013 event involves a detailed in Abu Dhabi.
Following two days of intense discussions at Jumeirah at Etihad Towers within the emirate, responsibility for the 2014 summit was symbolically passed to Yibo Chen, special representative, Hainan Tourism Commission, in the course of the closing ceremony of the once a year event.
According to the WTTC, Hainan is heading in the right direction to become one of the vital world’s leading tourist resort destinations by 2021.
According to a report from the organisation – ‘Hainan: Travel & Tourism Development Potential 2011 – 2021’ – tourism expenditure in Hainan would be roughly resembling that of Singapore today by 2021, and the industry will support as many roles as in Malaysia and Italy today.
In December 2009, China’s State Council issued a decree that Hainan within the South China Sea – the most important Special Economic Zone in China – was to be elevated right into a world-class international tourist resort destination by 2020 and the Provincial Government is now well so as to reaching these goals, in line with the WTTC report.
WTTC president David Scowsill said: “Hainan is obviously well on-track to succeed in its aim of changing into an international-class international tourism destination by 2020.
“With rapid growth in employment, visitor expenditure and contribution to GDP, it’s not surprising that this tropical island has already attracted the eye of just about every major international hotel brand.
“The government of Hainan Province clearly recognises tourism’s potential for economic and social contribution and great steps has been taken during the last three years to develop Hainan as a global-class destination.
“The opportunity is now to develop a sustainable, diverse product which pulls at the Province’s unique cultural and natural heritage, burgeoning business tourism sector and high profile new attractions.”
Tourism is of growing importance in China.
Duan Qiang, president, Beijing Tourism Group, explained to delegates in Abu Dhabi: “We are more than happy to determine that many member companies of WTTC have already taken the initiative to develop human resources in width and depth.
“We want to join hands with these companies and other tourism enterprises with same philosophy and ambition to succeed in win-win, and meet the challenge of financial wave and population restructure.
“We will keep our efforts in creating more products with high added value, raising service quality, efficiency and benefits, promoting full employment, developing the total potential of human resources, adding the price of mental and human capital of staff, in an effort to run tourism market large and powerful, and to accumulate a more friendly image of enterprise citizen and a global brand with higher fame, recognition, reputation and loyalty.
“Let’s try our greatest to further promote the recovery of economy and stability of society, and welcome the brilliant future.”