编者按：11月17-19日，2020国际山地旅游联盟年会顺利召开。本届年会以“后疫情时代国际山地旅游发展之路”为主题，采取现场与线上直播、场内与场外互动相结合的创新方式，举办开幕式暨主题论坛、2020“世界名山对话”、企业家座谈会、“世界名山与贵州山地旅游对话”摄影展、“8·9·00”思享会等具有创新意义的活动，同步在Facebook、Twitter、新浪新闻等多家国内外新媒体平台进行直播。
本届年会得到了世界旅游组织(UNWTO)、世界旅游及旅行业理事会(WTTC)、亚太旅游协会(PATA)、世界旅游经济论坛(GTEF)、世界旅游联盟(WTA)、世界旅游城市联合会(WTCF)、中国-东盟中心等众多国际组织鼎力支持。
中国文化和旅游部国际交流与合作局
局长谢金英的致辞
尊敬的卢雍政部长、胡忠雄副省长，
尊敬的邵琪伟副主席、何亚非秘书长，
女士们、先生们、朋友们：
上午好！
很高兴和大家相聚在2020国际山地旅游联盟年会。受中华人民共和国文化和旅游部委托，我在此谨对年会的召开表示热烈祝贺，向参会的中外嘉宾致以诚挚问候，向长期致力于全球山地旅游事业发展的各界人士致以崇高敬意！
旅游业是全球经济中发展势头最强劲、规模最大的产业之一。旅游业对经济发展的拉动、对社会就业的带动、对文化与环境的促进有着重要作用。同时，旅游也是人们追求美好生活的需要，是人们不可或缺的精神层面需求，是人们生活水平提高的一个重要指标。
中国山区面积占全国陆地面积的2/3，自然旅游资源大部分集中于山区。近年来，依托丰富的山地旅游资源，山地观光、户外运动、探险考察等山地特色旅游项目和业态取得了长足发展，山地旅游正成为一种新的生活方式、一种具有代表性的旅游休闲度假业态。
新冠肺炎疫情是百年来全球发生的最严重的公共卫生突发事件，给全球社会经济发展造成重大影响。面对突如其来的疫情，习近平主席统揽全局、亲自指挥，中国政府高度重视，积极推进疫情防控和经济社会复工复产，取得抗击新冠肺炎疫情斗争重大战略成果。中国文化和旅游部在中央政府的统一领导下，按照统筹疫情防控和经济社会发展的决策部署，扎实做好疫情防控、稳妥推进复工复产，旅游行业恢复发展呈现积极向好态势。中国旅游市场经历了团队旅游活动全面停滞、统筹疫情防控及有序复工、疫情防控常态化情境下国内旅游全面复业等三个阶段。
当前，新冠肺炎疫情在包括中国在内的一些国家得到有效控制，但从世界范围看，疫情仍在蔓延，世界经济社会受到巨大冲击，全球旅游业未来发展仍然面临严峻挑战和不确定性。国际山地旅游联盟作为旅游领域的一个重要交流合作平台，在疫后这个需要旅游业齐心协力共渡难关的关键时期，以“后疫情时代国际山地旅游发展之路”为题，凝聚行业力量，谋求疫后山地旅游复苏发展之路，具有重要的现实意义。相信处于特殊时期召开的联盟年会，将为全球山地旅游业的复苏和振兴注入信心和力量，取得积极的影响。
最后，祝2020国际山地旅游联盟年会取得圆满成功！
谢谢！
以下为英文全文
The Following is the Full Text in English
Distinguished Director Lu Yongzheng, Vice Governor Hu Zhongxiong, Vice Chairman Shao Qiwei and Secretary General He Yafei,
Ladies and gentlemen, dear friends,
Good morning!
I am delighted to meet you here at the 2020 Annual Conference of International Mountain Tourism Alliance (IMTA). Entrusted by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People's Republic of China, I would like to express warm congratulations on the opening of the conference, extend sincere greetings to Chinese and foreign guests, and pay high respect to personages of all circles who have been committed to the development of global mountain tourism!
As one of the fastest-growing and largest industries in the world, tourism plays a significant role in fueling economy, driving employment and promoting culture and environment. Tourism is the demand for a good life, an indispensable spiritual need, as well as an important indicator of improved living standards.
Mountains account for two thirds of China's total land areas, and most natural tourism resources are in mountains. Based on rich mountain tourism resources, China has made great strides in characteristic mountain tourism business such as mountain sightseeing, outdoor sports and expedition. Mountain tourism is becoming a new lifestyle and a representative tourism leisure & holiday business type.
As the world's most serious public health emergency in a century, COVID-19 has made a huge impact on global social and economic development. Facing the sudden COVID-19 outbreak, President Xi Jinping conducted overall planning and directed the anti-pandemic fight, the Chinese government attached great importance to the fight, and China advanced pandemic prevention and control and work and production resumption in parallel to achieve major strategic outcomes in the fight. Under the unified leadership of the Central Government, China's Ministry of Culture and Tourism has advanced pandemic prevention and control and work and production resumption steadily according to relevant decisions and arrangements, to achieve positive results in tourism recovery. The Chinese tourism market has gone through the full stagnation of group tours, coordinated pandemic prevention and control and orderly work resumption, as well as the full resumption of domestic tourism in the context of normalized pandemic prevention and control
COVID-19 has been kept under good control in some countries including China, but the virus is still spreading across the world and hitting the international economy and community hard, and global tourism will still face grim challenges and uncertainties ahead. As an important tourism exchange and cooperation platform, it is of great realistic significance for IMTA to pool industrial strengths to seek the recovery of mountain tourism after the pandemic under the theme of "The Path of Mountain Tourism Development in the Post-COVID World" in the critical post-COVID period when the whole industry needs to tide over the hardships together. I believe the conference that comes at a special time will inject confidence and power for the recovery of global tourism, and produce positive impact.
To conclude, I wish the 2020 Annual Conference of International Mountain Tourism Alliance a complete success!
Thank you!
