Sustainable development and win-win cooperation in Asian marine tourism: Conference report

Abstract

Global climate change and COVID-19 epidemic in recent years have made the recovery and sustainable development of marine tourism an important topic for coastal international and regional economic and social development. Under the theme of “Asia’s Development: Shared Ocean Economy”, experts, scholars and business representatives from Asian countries in the field of marine civilization construction and marine tourism economy engaged in fruitful discussions at the Asia Conference on Marine Tourism 2022, revolving around “The Construction and High-quality Development of Marine Tourism Destination”. This provides theoretical support as well as practical reference for the innovative development of marine tourism in Asia, and results in a broad consensus of cooperation, dialogue and win-win situation. The conference launched The Ningbo Initiative for Asian Marine Tourism Development, which advocates sharing sustainable development of marine economy, promoting exchange and mutual understanding of marine civilization, promoting common development of marine tourism, and building a community of marine destiny together. Besides, there was the Ningbo marine tourism promotion session, which presented the results of industry development such as the display of marine tourism equipment and the promotion of marine tourism projects.