Professor Liu Jingyan and Professor Wu Chenguang of our school were invited to visit the headquarter of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)

Professor Liu Jingyan and Professor Wu Chenguang of our school were invited to visit the headquarter of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)

On September 28th, 2023, Professor Liu Jingyan, Professor Wu Chenguang and the delegation of our school were invited to visit the headquarters of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), and had in-depth exchanges with Ms. Clara van der Pol - Director of the Statistics Department of UNWTO, and colleagues from the Statistics Department and the Asia-Pacific Department.

In the seminar with the statistics team of UNWTO, Professor Wu Chenguang shared the achievements of the School of Business in the fields of measurement of sustainable tourism (MST) and tourism demand forecasting, and Professor Liu Jingyan made suggestions on future collaboration directions such as the research on sustainable tourism satellite account (STSA). Director Clara fully affirmed the relevant research results and future collaboration intentions. The two sides had an in-depth and fruitful exchange on further collaboration between the School of Business and UNWTO.

Subsequently, Professor Liu Jingyan and Professor Wu Chenguang visited the Asia-Pacific Department of UNWTO and exchanged views with their teams.