COTTM Press Day

The 5th China Outbound Travel and Tourism Market (COTTM) is delighted to announce that it has partnered with China's Top outbound tour operators: Beijing Jiedajiaqi International Travel Service Co.,Ltd (brand name "Jiedajiaqi"), Hua Yuan International Travel Co., Ltd (brand name "ETI Holidays"and "Byecity.com "); Air China Travel Service Ltd (brand name "China Space"), Beijing UTS International Travel Service Co., Ltd (brand name " UTS Travel") and Shanghai Airlines Tours International (Group)Co., Ltd (brand name "SAL Tours").

It is anticipated that these significant strategic partnerships will bring mutual benefits for all parties.

These tour operators will use COTTM as their platform to source products from exhibitors from across the world, enabling them to establish co-operations that will provide more professional and tailor-made outbound products for the Chinese market. COTTM will utilize its global resources to promote all these partners' brands world-wide, ensuring that international industry professionals will fully recognize their brands and services. The partnerships between COTTM and these top operators will dramatically improve the industry development. 

Jiedajiaqi, Hua Yuan Travel, China Space, UTS Travel and SAL Tours will fully support COTTM, the professional outbound travel trade show in China and will invite their agents and retailers to attend COTTM as buyers and visitors. They will also make presentations on 24th April, the third day of COTTM, to give their opinions on the China outbound travel market trends. 

The Chairman of Jiedajiaqi, China's biggest outbound wholesaler to the South-east Asia market, Mr Zhang Xiangming, commented, "Since its launch in 2005 the China Outbound Travel and Tourism Market (COTTM) has committed to building a professional platform for the China outbound travel industry. We have witnessed the tremendous growth in size of COTTM and the show receives attention from more and more tourism boards and private sector companies all over the world. The influence in China is also becoming more comprehensive and COTTM has become a renowned annual event in the China outbound industry. Now it is in its 5th edition; we are very honored to have set up such a long-term partnership with COTTM. Together with our fellow friends and partners in the industry, we look forward to cooperating with COTTM and jointly promoting the development of the China outbound travel and tourism industry." 
Mr Billy Shen, the Chief Operation Officer (COO) of Hua Yuan Travel, a new style e-commerce travel company, commented, "As an important communication platform in the tourism industry, COTTM fully displays and disseminates the world's tourism resources to China. Hua Yuan Travel is keen on using this professional event to meet and source international outbound product suppliers and to exploit new products and to upgrade services." 
As one of the strongest outbound wholesaler to the European Market, Mr. Feng Bin, the General Manager of UTS Travel expressed, "I appreciate COTTM provides us with an extensive and effective platform to meet international travel trade professionals from all over the world, obtaining up to date international travel industry information, and learning the global industry trends. COTTM also providing us with a unique opportunity to promote our brand."

The President of China Space, Mr Xie Lixin, commented, "With the prosperous development of China's outbound travel industry, COTTM creates a professional and quality environment which plays a vital role for industry professionals to set partnerships, source products, promote brands and exploit more markets. China Space will utilize this quality platform to establish more partnerships and explore possible co-operation opportunities with international exhibitors and domestic visitors. We appreciate COTTM's contribution to the China outbound travel industry development and we fully support COTTM as before and will, hand in hand with COTTM, set up more collaborations with industry professionals."

Matt Thompson, COTTM Project Director, said, "COTTM has gained a huge level of support from the China outbound industry professionals since its launch. I am very excited that the outbound tour operators, Jiedajiaqi, Hua Yuan Travel, UTS Travel, China Space, and SAL Tours, have partnered with us. We are all looking forward to developing long-term strategic relationships and working closely together to further develop China's outbound travel and tourism industry"

COTTM is China's only business to business event that focuses purely on outbound travel. Now in its fifth year, it will take place at the China World Trade Center, 22 – 24 April, 2009. For further details please contact Qing Qinghui on 86 21 64 48 48 82 / qqing@tarsus.co.uk. Please visit www.cottm.com for regular updates