A tourism festival featuring cooperation between countries along the Silk Road was unveiled on 27 April in Zhangye City, northwest China’s Gansu Province. The opening ceremony of the 11th Dunhuang Tour-Silk Road International Tourism Festival, jointly organized by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Gansu provincial government, received nearly 700 tourists, investors and media from 48 countries and regions along the “Belt and Road” route, besides domestic guests.
This year’s festival aims to strengthen the “one belt and one road” cooperation, and promote the recovery of the cultural and tourism market. Besides the opening ceremony, a series of events will also take place during the festival, including the Silk Road Tourism Promotion Night, Gansu Tourism Promotion & International Travel Business Cooperation Conference and many more events.
Gansu Province will also carry out the Silk Road route exploration activities to further promote the domestic and international tourism market and high-quality tourism routes in the province. Investors, representatives of the World Tourism Alliance and media will visit Zhangye, Jiuquan, Jiayuguan, Dunhuang, Linxia and other places in Gansu Province.
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