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Ex-FIFA official pleads not guilty

[2016-05-20 07:33]

The longtime former head of the Nicaraguan soccer federation who most recently was employed by FIFA pleaded not guilty to racketeering charges on Wednesday.

Event hails progress in China's tourism sector

[2016-05-20 07:33]

The ongoing First World Conference on Tourism for Development in Beijing will discuss the achievements that the Chinese tourism industry has made in recent years and how the tourism industry aids global development, the event's organizers said.

Summit upbeat on industry's role in poverty relief

[2016-05-20 07:33]

Tourism has both provided pleasure and helped to reduce poverty, according to officials and entrepreneurs at a summit forum of the First World Conference on Tourism for Development in Beijing on Thursday.

Part of the beijing declaration

[2016-05-20 07:33]

Editor's note: The First World Conference on Tourism for Development, jointly hosted by the United Nations World Tourism Organization and China, issued a declaration, titled "The Beijing Declaration on Sustainable Tourism as a Driver of Development and Peace" that calls for utilizing tourism as a means to bring about peace and global development. The following are excerpts:

Dong ethnic group increases incomes by sharing culture

[2016-05-20 07:33]

At the foot of Fanjing Mountain in Jiangkou county, Guizhou province, is Zhaisha village, where most of the population belongs to the Dong ethnic group. For local villager Yang Juyuan, the development of tourism in recent years has allowed him to earn in a day what he could have earned in a year just five years ago.

What they say

[2016-05-20 07:33]

"Tourism will be the biggest business in the next century. When my father was born 67 years ago, there were 25 million tourists in the world. When my son was born 15 years ago, we had more than 700 million tourists in the world. And now we have more than 1.2 billion."