Beijing seeks to integrate culture and tourism Travel


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Tourists visit the Badaling Great Wall, a signature destination of Beijing. [Photo/Xinhua] Experts discussed the integration of culture and tourism to boost travel consumption at the Capital Tourism Development Forum in Beijing in late December. The forum held by the Beijing Tourism Society and Beijing Union University aimed to find solutions to better tap the capital city's cultural and tourism resources and optimize the tourism-business environment. The pandemic is expected to cause a 50 percent year-on-year drop in domestic tourist visits and consumption for 2020, China Tourism Academy president Dai Bin says. Inbound tourism plummeted by 90 percent. "Yet we...