Internationalization of China's Tourism Industry - Proceedings of the First Shanghai Tourism Forum - Collection of Fudan Tourism Studies, Issue 2

Author: Xia Lin-gen
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: With the wheels of the era entering the 21st century, China has accelerated its process of internationalization. In this historically significant process that has garnered global attention, the Chinese tourism industry has taken on the role of a leader. The first "Shanghai Tourism Forum" was organized by the Department of Tourism at Fudan University, co-hosted by the Shanghai Tourism Industry Association, the Fengjia County Tourism Bureau of Zhejiang Province, the Anji Hotel in Zhejiang, and the China Tourism News Agency. Over fifty experts, scholars, and industry professionals from universities, research institutions, and the tourism sector in provinces and cities such as Shanghai, Beijing, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Guangdong, Hunan, Hubei, Shandong, Sichuan, Fujian, Jiangxi, and Anhui, as well as from Japan and the United States, attended the conference. The successful hosting of the first "Shanghai Tourism Forum" received widespread attention from both academia and the industry. The forum organizing committee received over fifty related papers from domestic and international experts and scholars, from which twenty-six were selected and compiled into this collection of essays for publication.