China's renowned tropical city and popular tourist destination Sanya is slated to host the 10th Hainan Rendez-Vous on Dec 13-16 -- featuring an international feast of well-known brands in yachting, aviation, limousines, the arts, fashion and other premium fields.
The annual event is celebrated as China's largest luxury yacht show and one of the world's most comprehensive exhibitions for the international luxury lifestyle brand industries.
A name card event for Sanya, the Hainan Rendez-Vous represents the city's flourishing exhibition industry development, according to Sanya Vice Mayor Chen Tiejun.
Sanya will make full use of its tourism resources and business environment and encourage the event to spotlight yachting, the arts and quality of life exhibitions to further boost modern exhibition services and promote international trade, added the vice mayor.
In the future, as Chen noted, Sanya will be dedicated to the construction of centers for yacht tourism, events operation, yacht maintenance, industry regulation, yacht training and trade. The city will strive to cultivate new hotspots for tourist spending, improve services quality and the level of internationalization and build Sanya into an international yachting tourism destination.
The press conference for the 10th Hainan Rendez-Vous is held on Nov 26. [Photo/chinanews.com]
In recent years, the number of tourists to have gone to sea via Visun Royal Yacht Club marinas has reached 1 million, and the figure is expected to hit 5 million in the future, contributing more than 2.5 billion yuan ($356 million) to the local economy, said Wang Dafu, founder of Hainan Rendez-Vous and president of Visun Group.
In addition to the quality lifestyles that have always been promoted at previous events, the 10th edition will focus on "yacht tourism popularization", highlighting marine leisure activities and the nighttime lifestyle and making yacht tourism more available to the general public.
An forum themed on yacht tourism exchange among Hainan, Hong Kong and Macao will also be held.
Representatives and experts gathering there will talk about the effectiveness of the "Hainan-Hong Kong-Macao Free Flow of Yachts" policy in promoting yacht tourism consumption.
Yacht industry investment companies and representatives of popular tourism destinations will share the word on local tourism products, exhibitions and events.
A private plane is put on display during the previous Hainan Rendez-Vous. [Photo/chinanews.com]
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