**:Xinhua.
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- The 2024 Los Angeles Travel & Adventure Show opened in Los Angeles on Feb. 3, and Chinese travel exhibitors became one of the biggest highlights of the show.
The China Tourism Office in Los Angeles, together with a number of airlines and travel agencies, participated in the exhibition around the theme of "Hello! China's "national tourism image", Chinese exhibitors launched a variety of tourism products with cultural characteristics, attracting thousands of visitors to consult.
Nancy Inpastato, an 84-year-old Los Angeles resident, told reporters that her zodiac sign is the dragon, and 2024 happens to be the year of the dragon in the Chinese lunar calendar, which represents luck and good signs, and hopes to have the opportunity to go to China in the upcoming year of the dragon. "I went to China 25 years ago. I heard that China has changed dramatically, and I want to see it firsthand. ”
Wu Dawei, director of China's tourism office in Los Angeles, said he was surprised that many Americans knew that 2024 was the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese lunar calendar and were interested in traveling to China. The industry expects more U.S. tourists to travel to China in 2024 with increased flights between China and the United States and the implementation of visa facilitation measures.
The Los Angeles Convention & Visitors Bureau recently released a speech by Adam Burke, the organization's chairman and CEO, on its official social media account. He congratulated China on the success of the Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival and hoped to further promote Sino-US tourism exchanges.
Burke said that the two countries agreed to hold a high-level dialogue on tourism between China and the United States to further expand tourism cooperation between the two countries, "This is an important step, and it affirms the important role of the tourism industry in promoting people-to-people exchanges, which have brought the two countries very close together over the years." ”
The Los Angeles Travel & Adventure Show is one of the largest travel and travel shows in the world, with more than 450 organizations from around the world exhibiting this year.