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A number of important guests delivered speeches via video link at the opening ceremony of the Shandong Conference on Tourism Development, which was held in Yantai, Shandong province on Sept 22.

They included Zhu Shanzhong, executive director of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), the president of the Khabarovsk Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, Wonju Mayor Chang-Muk Won, Greg Williamson, mayor of Mackay Regional Council, West Mackay, as well as the president of the Prenti Bay Tourism Association, Tauranga, New Zealand.