The region’s foremost experts in tourism will converge at the Marriott hotel in Surfers Paradise this week for the third annual East-West Dialogue on Tourism and the Chinese Dream conference.
Spearheaded by the Griffith Institute for Tourism (GIFT) and Griffith Tourism Confucius Institute (TCI), the three-day event will be held from Thursday 23 November through Saturday 25 November, and explore a diversity of issues facing the contemporary Asia-Pacific tourism market, unified under the need to address the topic of managing tourism in a way that supports sustainable growth.
The conference will feature opening speeches on the Friday from Tourism Australia chairman and Mantra Group chief executive Bob East, and Griffith University Vice Chancellor Professor Ian O’Connor AC, with an official welcome from Professor Bin Dai, the CEO of the China Tourism Academy, and a dinner keynote from former Tourism Australia and Tourism Queensland chair Don Morris AO.
Also on the keynote speakers bill are
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