Zhangjiajie Tourism-oriented Poverty Alleviation Experiences Shared at UNESCO Headquarters

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)-Africa-China Forum on World Heritage Capacity Building and Cooperation was held at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, on June 3 and 4, 2019. Representatives from UNESCO and world heritage professional consultation agencies, government officials from China and African countries, experts and scholars discussed on the theme of “World Heritage and Sustainable Development: China-Africa Experience Sharing”. A wonderful speech entitled "Sustainable Tourism and Poverty Elimination in World Heritage Site" was presented at the meeting. It shared the views of tourism-oriented poverty reduction in Wulingyuan of Zhangjiajie, a World Heritage Site.

“Zhangjiajie tourism-oriented poverty alleviation has brought more and more benefits,” said Zhang Chaozhi, an international tourism marketing consultant of Zhangjiajie City, head of the Monitoring Center for UNWTO Sustainable Tourism Observatories (MCSTO) Zhangjiajie Station, and professor of the School of Tourism Management, Sun Yat-sen University. He remarked that local people have gone through region, skill, and capital-based tourism industry development. They are now involving in tourism industry development intellectually and as elites. Relevant tourism development and heritage protection models can be promoted in African world heritage sites. He proposed that the management group of the World Heritage Sites in Africa and Zhangjiajie exchange visits and share practices.

The forum was based on the China-Africa common priorities in the United Nations’ Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the African Union’s Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want. It aimed to implement the capacity building agreed at the 2018 Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation.

This article is from Hunan Provincial Government. www.enghunan.gov.cn.

张家界旅游扶贫经验走进联合国教科文组织总部

湖南日报6月10日讯(记者 田育才 通讯员 何婕)“联合国教科文组织—中国—非洲世界遗产能力建设与合作论坛”，6月3日至4日在位于法国巴黎的教科文组织总部举行。来自联合国教科文组织、世界遗产专业咨询机构代表、中国和非洲国家政府官员、专家学者围绕“世界遗产与可持续发展：中非经验共享”这一主题展开讨论。期间，一场题为“世界遗产地可持续旅游与贫困消除”的精彩演讲，向与会嘉宾分享了世界遗产地张家界武陵源旅游减贫经验。

“张家界的旅游扶贫效应正在日益放大。”演讲中，张家界市国际旅游营销顾问、联合国旅游可持续发展张家界观测点负责人、中山大学旅游学院教授张朝枝介绍，张家界的老百姓经历了靠区位参与、技能参与、资本参与旅游业的阶段，目前已发展到智力参与、精英参与，相关的旅游发展与遗产保护模式可以在非洲的世界遗产地中推广，并建议非洲的世界遗产地与张家界进行管理层交换访问，交流分享实践工作经验。

据了解，本次论坛是基于联合国《2030年可持续发展议程》和非洲联盟《2063年议程：我们希望的非洲》中涉及的中非共同优先事项，落实2018年中非合作论坛(FOCAC)北京峰会商定的能力建设的一项具体举措。

责编：周杨

来源：www.enghunan.gov.cn