NEW YORK, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) — China’s Huangshan Tourism Development Co., Ltd., a tour operator of tourism destination Mount Huangshan, held an online event to promote local culture and tourism among New Yorkers on Friday evening.
Organizers invited New Yorkers and other Americans to visit Mount Huangshan, also known as Yellow Mountain, a UNESCO world heritage site located in Huangshan City in east China’s Anhui Province.
More than 100 people joined in the event via Zoom link, while the promotion event was also live streamed on Facebook.
Though the COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented difficulties to cultural and tourism exchanges between China and the United States, it can’t stop peoples’ aspirations for a happy life and their zeal to understand each other better via tourism, said China’s Consul General in New York, Huang Ping.
The event is the first tourism promotion event of its kind since the outbreak of COVID-19 and marks the recovery of tourism and people-to-people…