First World Conference on Tourism for Development Tourism for Peace and Development And 7 th G20 Tourism Ministers Meeting 18 20 May 2016 Overall Programme (as of 9 May 2016) 13:00 22:00 Registration 17 May 2016 Access to the Conference will be confined exclusively to participants and accompanying persons wearing an identification badge. The identification badges will be issued at the Registration Desk, which will be set up on the 3rd floor of Hotel China World Summit Wing (No.1 Jianguomenwai Avenue, Beijing, 100004, China) from 17 to 18 May 2016. Please kindly bring your ID/Passport to apply for the identification badge at the registration desk. The onsite registration desk will be open: Tuesday, 17 May (from 13:00 to 22:00) Wednesday, 18 May (from 07:00 to 22:00) Thursday, 19 May (from 07:00 to 22:00, as Information Desk) Friday, 20 May (from 07:00 to 18:00, as Information Desk) Note: The onsite registration desk at the designated hotels will also serve as the information desk during the whole conference. Should delegates require any information on any aspects of the conference, please contact the onsite registration staff.
18 May 2016 7 th G20 Tourism Senior Officials Meeting 09:00 13:00 Senior Officials Meeting (Review of the Final Declaration) (by invitation only) Venue: AB Hall, Ground Floor, Hotel China World Summit Wing 13:30 Lunch (by invitation only) Venue: D Hall, Ground Floor, Hotel China World Summit Wing ***** 17:00 17:45 Delegates arrival at the dinner hall, 3 rd Floor, Hotel China World Summit Wing 17:55 VIPs arrival 18:00 20:20Welcome Dinner of the First World Conference on Tourism for Development Venue: Summit Ball Room, 3 rd Floor, Hotel China World Summit Wing Opening remarks by Cheng Hong, Vice Mayor of Beijing Municipality Remarks by Li Jinzao, Chairman of the China National Tourism Administration (CNTA) Remarks by Taleb Rifai, Secretary-General, World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Remarks by Wang Anshun, Mayor of Beijing Municipality Dinner Performance 2
19 May 2016 08:00 (tbc) Transfer from hotels to the Great Hall of the People 08:30 Arrival at the Great Hall of the People 09:10 09:15 Group photo for VIPs 09:20 10:15 Opening Ceremony Opening remarks by Li Jinzao, Chairman of the China National Tourism Administration (CNTA) Address by the Head of State of China Address by Guest of Honor Message of Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, delivered by Wu Hongbo, UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs Address by Taleb Rifai, Secretary-General, World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Launch of the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development, 2017 10:15 10:25 China Tourism Promotional Video 10:25 12:35 Summit on Sustainable Development through Tourism 10:25 11:00 Keynote Speeches Introduction: Richard Quest, CNN Li Jinzao, Chairman of the China National Tourism Administration (CNTA) Massoud Soltanifar, Vice President of Iran (Islamic Republic of) and President of Iran Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization Charles Gaёtan Xavier-Luc Duval, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Tourism and External Communications of Mauritius HRH Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Chairman of the Board and President of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage, Saudi Arabia (tbc) Joe Natuman, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Trade, Tourism, Commerce and Industry, Vanuatu 11:00 11:20 Coffee break 11:20-12:35 Panel Discussion Moderator: Richard Quest, CNN HE Shaikha Mai bint Mohammed Al-Khalifa, President of Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities, Bahrain 3
Rashed Khan Menon, Minister of Tourism and Civil Aviation, Bangladesh Nikolina Angelkova, Minister of Tourism, Bulgaria Sabine Hepperle, Director General, Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) Policy, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Germany Nayef Al Fayez, Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, Jordan Fatuma Hirsi Mohamed, Principal Secretary for Tourism, Kenya Chong Kim, Vice Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Republic of Korea Derek Andre Hanekom, Minister of Tourism, South Africa John Whittingdale, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Isabel M. Hill, Director, National Travel and Tourism Office, US Department of Commerce, United States of America Cheng Hong, Deputy Mayor of Beijing Municipal City Peng Qinghua, Secretary of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region's CPC Committee Pansy Ho, Managing Director, Shun-Tak Holdings Zubin Karkaria, CEO, Kuoni Group Yu DunDe, CEO of tuniu.com 12:40 13:50 Lunch Venue: 2nd Floor, Great Hall of the People 14:00 15:30 Session 1: Tourism for Poverty Reduction Moderator: Martin Barth, President, World Tourism Forum Lucerne José Gustavo Santos, Minister of Tourism, Argentina Aisha Mohammed Mussa, Minister of Culture and Tourism, Ethiopia Ketevan Bochorishvili, Vice Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development, Georgia Arief Yahya, Minister of Tourism, Indonesia Evaldas Gustas, Minister of Economy, Lithuania Ong Hong Peng, Secretary General of Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Malaysia Chen Min er, Secretary of the CPC Guizhou Provincial Committee Takafumi Ueda, Senior Advisor on Private Sector Development, Japan International Cooperation Agency István Ujhelyi, Vice-Chair of the Committee on Transport and Tourism and Member of the Delegation for relations with China, European Parliament Dho Young-Shim, Chairperson, Sustainable Tourism for Eliminating Poverty (ST-EP) Organization and Member of the UN Sustainable Development Goals Advocacy Group Duan Qiang, CEO of Beijing Tourism Group Márcio Favilla, Executive Director, Operational Programmes and Institutional Relations, World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Bert Hofman, Country Director for China, Korea and Mongolia, World Bank 4
15:30 15:50 Coffee break 15:50 17:15 Session 2: Tourism for Peace Moderator: Wu Jianmin, Deputy Director, Foreign Affairs Committee of the CPPCC National Committee, China Tith Chantha, Secretary of State of Tourism, Cambodia Karla Šlechtová, Minister of Regional Development, Czech Republic Mohamed Yehia Rashed, Minister of Tourism, Egypt Edward Zammit Lewis, Minister of Tourism, Malta Zdravko Pocivalsek, Minister of Economic Development and Technology, Slovenia John Amaratunga, Minister of Tourism, Development and Christian Affairs, Sri Lanka Christopher Rodrigues CBE, Chairman of VisitBritain and Chair of the British Council, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Walter Mzembi, Minister of Tourism and Hospitality Industry, Zimbabwe HRH Princess Dana Firas, Chair, Petra National Trust, Jordan Li Jiheng, Secretary of the CPC Yunnan Provincial Party Committee Gonzalo Robredo, Representative of Vice-Chairman City of World Tourism Cities Federation and CEO of Tourism Entity of the City of Buenos Aires David Scowsill, CEO, World Travel and Tourism Council Hiromi Tagawa, Chairman, Japan Association of Travel Agents Brett Tollman, CEO, The Travel Corporation Zhang Xuewu, Chairman, China National Travel Service (HK) Group Corporation 17:15 17:30 Adoption of the Beijing Declaration 17:30 17:35 Closing remarks by Taleb Rifai, Secretary-General, World Tourism Organization End of Conference 5
18:00 18:45 Press Conference Venue: Great Hall of the People 18:00 18:10 Signing Ceremony for the Memorandum of Understanding between the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and Xinhua News Agency 18:10 18:20 Signing Ceremony for the Partnership Agreement between the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and Guangzhou Chimelong Group Co. Ltd. 18:20 18:45 Press Conference 19:00 21:00 Shanxi Tourism Promotion Evening (by invitation only) Venue: 3 rd Floor, China World Summit Wing 6
20 May 2016 7 th G20 Tourism Ministers Meeting (by invitation only) 08:00 (tbc) Transfer from hotels to the Great Hall of the People 08:30 (tbc) Arrival at the Great Hall of the People 08:45 Group photo for Ministers and Heads of delegations 09:00 0940 Opening Ceremony Venue: Golden Hall, 3rd Floor, Great Hall of the People 10:00 12:30 Ministers Meeting Venue: Golden Hall, 3 rd Floor, Great Hall of the People 13:00 14:30 Lunch Venue: Macao Siji Room China Great Hall Hotel 7
Conference Tours In accordance to the Conference, the host government of the People's Republic of China will provide a variety of technical tours for international delegates and their spouses/children. The technical tours are free. Delegates will be responsible for their hotel expense in Beijing. The accommodation in Shandong during the technical tours will be covered by the Shandong Province. The following table is a summary of the tours provided before, during and after the conference. Please note that all tours are offered exclusively to international participants. For any inquiries, please contact Mr. Han Mi at wctd@cnta.gov.cn. For more details of technical tours please use this link. 18 May 2016 Pre-Conference Tour 11:00-16:00 Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square 19 May 2016 Family Tour 09:00-21:00 Summer Palace - Temple of Heaven - Acrobatic Show 20-22 May 2016 Post-Conference Tour Option 1: 20 May 9:00 16:00 Tiananmen Square - Forbidden City - Lunch with Peking Duck - Beijing International Tourism Expo 2016 Option 2: 20 May 09:05 22 May 15:44 3-Day Tour in Shandong: Beijing-Jinan - Tai'an-Qufu-Beijing (Mount Taishan, Confucius) Option 3: 20 May 17:15-22 May 15:44 (For the G20 Tourism Ministers Meeting delegates only) 3-Day Tour in Shandong: Beijing - Jinan-Tai'an-Qufu-Beijing (Mount Taishan, Confucius) Option 4: 20 May 09:05 21 May 16:18 2-Day Tour in Shandong: Beijing - Jinan-Tai'an - Beijing (Mount Taishan) Option 5: 20 May 17:25 21 May 16:18 (For the G20 Tourism Ministers Meeting delegates only) 2-Day Tour in Shandong: Beijing - Jinan-Tai'an-Beijing (Mount Taishan) 21 May 2016 Post-Conference Tour 08:30 21:30 Great Wall - Ming Tomb with Sacred Way - Peking Opera at Traditional Huguang Guild Hall - Dinner 8