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May 2023
25 m

Ambassadors speak on tourism

CHINA PLUS
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Global tourism is now steadily recovering as the emergency stage of the pandemic fades away. How to nurture brand new ideas and apply more new technologies to cater to the new trends of tourism? Host Tian Wei spoke with ambassadors to China at the World Tourism Cities Federation in Changsha. 
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