To carry out Scientific Development Concept and the important guiding spirit of leading social capital to tourist industry released by Chinese vice premier Wuyi last year when inspecting Zhejiang province, Complying with the trend of constructing China as a powerful tourism country, the tendency of demand boost in investment of China's tourism, the superior of active folk capital of area of the Yangtze River Delta, and the situation of constantly creation and development of social economy of Ningbo including tourism economy, the first China Tourism Investment Symposium (CNTIS) will be held on 1-3 November 2005, at Ningbo International Convention and Exhibition Center. China National Tourism Administration and Ningbo Municipal People's Governemnt will be the host of the Symposium in partnership with the Zhejiang Tourism Administration, China Tourism News, and The Economic Observer.

CNTIS will be in order to serve for supply, demand and planning, consulting, proving, etc. of the investment in tourism, and provide a platform for negotiating investment directly with extremely high professional lines, authoritativeness and substantial results. It is one of the three national exhibitions in China's tourism and the only one national exhibition in the field of China's tourism investment, which totally displays the achievement of exploitation and construction of China's tourist programmes to attract tourist investment. As a national, annual, symbolically grand exhibition in the field of China's tourism investment, CNTIS will become the most authoritative platform on China's tourism resources, capital and information. Holding CNTIS will meanwhile promote the economic restructuring of Ningbo, motivate the development of the economic society, construct a city of business, exhibition and tour, and improve the influential power of Ningbo. This CNTIS invite over 10,000 professional business guests for participation and 50,000 audiences for visit as well as more than 100 domestic and foreign media to interview and report the symposium.

There are over 500 companies and organizations participate this CNTIS as exhibitors. During them 24 provinces, cities, and autonomous regions such as Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Zhejiang, Shangdong, Jiangxi, Shanxi, Guangxi, Xinjiang, Henan, Shanxi, Anhui, Hubei, Hainan, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Heilongjiang,  Hunan, Ningxia, Guangdong, Chongqing, Xinjiang Corps etc as well as 9 cities such as Ningbo, Nanjing, Suzhou, Wuxi, Yangzhou, Nantong, Chengdu, Zhuhai, Changchun, etc independently organize groups to participate this CNTIS. Otherwise, There are about 500 overseas chambers of commerce and enterprises in the exhibitors.

The theme of this CNTIS is: Search the capital for the beauty, and let intelligence create the wealth.

Events on the agenda for the Symposium will include exhibitions and talks, forums and seminars, selection of awards and presentations, and comprehensive cultures.

The Symposium will be composed of six exhibition districts. They are: the Conference Hall, Resource Programmes, Tourism Research Organizations, Tourism Souvenir Designing and Crafting, Investor Exhibition District, and the Individual Exhibition District. With the show place that is up to 20,000 square meters, CNTIS displays 1,000 booths. The whole symposium concentratively displays in full scale the brief situation of resources, development, and investment of China's tourism industry, and completely introduces the situation of China's tourism industry and its investment. By using pictures, texts, video images, models and real articles the symposium displays specialty resources and products of tourism programmes all over China, aims to present tourism programmes that are interesting to investors. Programmes to be offered have great potentials and may appeal to tourists on which constructive talks are very possible. During the session exhibitors and investors connect and negotiate sufficiently to find commercial chances for the purpose of win-win.

This CNTIS will arrange five forums and seminars such as Top-Level Forum on China Tourism Investment, Top-Level Forum on the Sustainable Development of China's Tourism, Seminar on China's Scenic Spot Management, Seminar on Tourist Development of Revolutionary History, and Forum on China's Business, Convention & Tourism etc. China National Tourism Administration will invite tourism experts well known both in China and around the world as well as authorities from the tourism industry to release authoritative information and supply policy services by series of professional forums and seminars to build a communication platform for tourist investment and demands as well as the services of planning, consultation, and demonstration etc in order to guide investment. The conspicuous Zhejiangnese Merchants of China Tourism Investment will also be selected.

To provide a face-to-faced chance for investment negotiation to relevant exhibitors, the Organizing Committee of CNTIS will hold nearly 30 investment presentations and releases on investment programmes, 2 collective signing ceremonies of some major projects and individual ones of projects signed among the delegations. During the session Media Club of China's Tourism and Investor Club of China's Tourism will also be founded.

The cultural events of this CNTIS comprise Xikou Cup----Cultural and Artistic Show of the Chinese Regional Specialties, of which the theme is the Beautiful China, Night Of Dongqian River----Special Party of Secret trip in border, Dongqian Lake International Dragon Boat Competition etc. These events will father enrich the content of the symposium and set off its warm atmosphere.