Tai'an, Shandong, participated in the 2015 China International Travel Mart (CITM) held in Kunming, Southwest China's Yunnan province from Nov 13 to 15. The city fully showed its tourism resources and promoted its tourism brand of "Tai'an, the sacred mountain, the peaceful city" in the event, attracted great attention from the exhibitors and participants.

The 70,000-square-meter mart, had got over 3,000 exhibition booths including 105 countries and regions' participants. Tourism agencies, hotels, airlines and tourism-related enterprises from all over the world took part in the three day event.

CITM had started in 1998 and is being conducted in Kunming and Shanghai, by turns. This is Kunming's eighth term hosting the event. To let the world know more about its scenic spots and culture, Yunnan province made a tourism promotion video and a set of paintings.

"The China International Travel Mart is now regarded as the biggest and most influential cooperation platform for tourism in Asia," said Duan Yueqing, director of Yunnan Provincial Tourism Development Committee.

The 2015 China International Travel Mart (CITM) kicked off in Kunming, Yunnan province, Nov 13. [Photo/ Tai'an Tourism Bureau]

Over 50 Tai'an participants including officials from the local Tourism Bureau and tourism agencies attended the event. Aimed at further promoting Tai'an as a world-famous travel destination, Tai'an unveiled an excellent travel route in the city, which covers Mount Tai, a perfect combination of culture and natural landscape. It is also one of the four renowned great mountains in China. The route also covers other great landscapes of the city.

Besides these, in a poll on the 2015 China Tourist Commodities, two series of tourist souvenirs made by peach wood from Tai'an got ranked as the gold awards, bringing Shandong's tourism commodities one step closer to the world stage.

During the CITM, Tai'an totally gave out over 30,000 promotional materials, 1500 special souvenirs and reached cooperation intention agreements with tourism agencies from more than 20 countries and regions.