Cultural initiatives, easier travel among strategic goals of members

To improve people-to-people connectivity, the APEC Connectivity Blueprint for 2015-25 says the 21APEC economies are committed to continuing the expansion of the number of holders of the APEC Business Travel Card and to improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the ABTC arrangement.

The APEC members will undertake to improve cross-border education cooperation.

They also resolve to achieve 1million intra-APEC student exchanges per year by 2020and increase the number of student exchanges to developing economies.