CCYIA has officially announced that CCS13 is scheduled to be held in Shenzhen, a cruise home port city in South China, from November 1 to November 3, 2018. CCS13 is sponsored by CCTA and China Merchants Group, which is a 100-year-old large central enterprise, and co-organized by CCYIA, China Merchants Shekou Holdings and other institutions.
In the morning of March 23, China Merchants Shekou Holdings and CCYIA jointly convened the first special meeting for preparatory work for CCS13. The meeting was co-hosted by Sun Chengming, director of China Merchants Group and chairman of China Merchants Shekou Holdings, and Zheng Weihang, executive vice president and secretary general of CCYIA. Gong Lei, deputy general manager and general manager of the cruise business department of China Merchants Shekou Holdings, Di Qian, executive director and general manager of the human resources department of China Merchants Shekou Holdings, Yi Kejiang, deputy director of the party committee office of China Merchants Shekou Holdings, Wang Zheng, deputy general manager of the cruise business department of China Merchants Shekou Holdings, Zhang Jian and Zheng Xiangyi, assistants to secretary general of CCYIA, Zhu Lin, director of the public relations department of CCYIA, Feng Bo, deputy director of the secretariat, attended the working meeting.
The two parties confirmed that the theme of CCS13 would be new era, new features and new layout and CCS13 would be held at Hilton Shenzhen Shekou Nanhai, Shekou District, Shenzhen, China, from November 1 to November 3, 2018.
CCS13 covers 10 theme forums including: the policy forum, the forum on president’s outlook on china, the forum for industry leaders, the forum on cruise repairing and building, the forum on ASEAN’s cruise cooperation, the first forum on the development of Chinese-funded cruises, the first cruise port and cruise company roundtable, the first overseas cruise tourism promotion conference (aircraft + cruise), the first forum on cruise capital and the second international cruise procurement matchmaking conference.
According to the introduction of Zheng Weihang, founder of the Conference and executive vice president of CCYIA, CCS has been successfully held for 12 sessions in Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Xiamen, Shenzhen, Sanya and other cities. It has become an authoritative platform for global cruise industry to issue policies and strategies, conduct cooperation and communication and seek common development. According to the original plan, CCS13 would be held in Tianjin. We thank Tianjin Municipal Government for taking the interests of the whole into account to enable CCYIA to organize the Conference for three consecutive sessions in South China, which promotes the strategic layout of starting development of the cruise market in South China. Previous conferences were all jointly organized by CCYIA and local governments, but CCS13 is the first to be held in cooperation with a central enterprise. It is believed that such innovative model will effectively deepen and improve the matching degree between the cruise conference and the market.
