(ECNS) -- According to a recent source from the Secretariat of the International Mountain Tourism Alliance (IMTA), the IMTA headquarters has settled in Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, China, and the bid for the conceptual construction plan of the headquarters building has been completed.
On 15 May 2017, IMTA was established in Xingyi, Qianxinan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province. Made up of 126 members from 29 countries and regions in five continents, with its headquarters and secretariat in Guiyang, Guizhou Province, IMTA is the world's first international mountain tourism organization initiated by China, as well as the first international organization headquartered outside Beijing.
With blessed mountain tourism resources, Guizhou is an ideal place for mountain tourism research and practice. Over the past years, Guizhou has accumulated rich experience in mountain tourism development. Facing the new situation and new opportunity of world tourism development, as a province rich in mountain resources, Guizhou has internal conditions and external environment for building an international high-end platform for mountain tourism exchanges.
With the aim of protecting mountain resources, inheriting mountain civilization, developing the mountain economy and benefit mountainous people, IMTA is committed to protecting and utilizing mountain tourism resources, promoting international tourism exchanges and cooperation, summarizing and popularizing the successful experience of developing mountain tourism, promoting the prosperity of the mountain economy, culture and society, and advancing the sustainable development of mountain and ecological tourism.
The establishment of IMTA was established as a new global tourism cooperation and exchange platform in China. It has filled the gap in international mountain tourism cooperation, will become a platform facilitating effective communication, cooperation and learning among mountain tourism practitioners, mountain tourism countries and regions, mountain tourism enterprises and mountain tourism research institutes, and will become an organization setting international mountain tourism rules and standards.
With a total area of 40,000 square meters, located in Guizhou Shuanglong Airport Economic Zone, the proposed headquarters building of IMTA enjoys convenient transportation. It is only a five-minute ride away from the Guiyang Longdongbu International Airport and a 30-minute ride away from Guiyang's railway stations. Based on IMTA's resource feature, the building will integrate mountain tourism culture into landscape space to build a mountain-themed headquarters base.
According to a head of IMTA, after its completion, the building will promote world mountain civilization inheritance and cultural and sports exchanges through the high-end international exchange platform; will follow the trend of international mountain tourism development and promote the development of mountain culture tourism; will achieve the goal of international all-for-one mountain tourism, and enhance the soft strength and international influence of cities; and will lead the agglomeration of surrounding industries through mountain resource endowment.
