2018: A big year for Chinese Tourism Years

The following article appeared as the lead story in the January 9, 2018 edition of the COTRI Weekly:

Dear Readers,

Welcome to the first edition of COTRI Weekly in the New Year 2018! The start of the new year saw not only snow in Florida, but also the good news that for the first time in aviation history not one person died in an accident on a commercial passenger jet throughout the whole of the year 2017.

2018 is also the Tourism Year for China and three partners: Canada, the European Union and Turkey.

The 2018 Canada-China Year of Tourism adopted a Yin-Yang sign with a panda and a polar bear as its symbol and is trying not only to attract new target groups like families and MICE travellers to Canada, but is also aiming at bringing more Canadian tourists to China, including many Overseas Chinese living in Canada. 2017 Canada welcomed about 700,000 Chinese arrivals, profiting from travellers who preferred Canada to the USA as their travel destination in North America […]

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