Lectures offer ideas for development of rural tourism

( chinadaily.com.cn )

Updated: 2013-12-19

More than 160 officials - including the Party chiefs and publicity officials from all the towns in Pingnan, Fujian province - attended a seminar in the county given by three rural tourism specialists from Taiwan on Dec 17, as part of their three-day tour in Pingnan.

At the invitation of the provincial Civil Service Bureau, Tourism Bureau and Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, three Taiwan experts - Zheng Jianxiong, head of the college of management at Asia University, Chen Guoming a professor at National Chi Nan University, and Wu Zhenghe of Providence University - visited villages and gave lectures on subjects such as brand building for rural tourism, development of special dishes for tourists and how to develop commercial areas in towns.

Edited by Wang Yifei and Niva Whyman?