All in CARAVANING 2016 & HKCTS Joint Press Conference Successfully Held in Beijing

Co-organized by Messe Düsseldorf (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., China National Travel Service (HK) Group Corporation, China Association of Automotive Manufacturers Recreational Vehicle Industry Committee (CMRV), China Self-Driving Tour and Camping & Caravaning Association (STCCA）of CTACA and YASN International Exhibition Co., Ltd. All in CARAVANING 2016 (AIC 2016) will take place during 18-20 June at Beijing Exhibition Center. Professional exhibition companies join hands with the industry giants to build up the most influential trade exhibition in caravans and recreation vehicles.

On 27-28 May, a special pre-show press conference themed as “Camping in Caravan” was jointly held by AIC 2016 and HKCTS at CTS RV Park of Miyun Nanshan, which also kicked off the AIC Caravan Camping Season in June. The press conference invited more than 30 famous industry and mass media. The aim of choosing RV campsite as the venue is to enable the media to experience the true fun of “Two days/One night” caravan camping life in depth and promote the caravaning travel lifestyle from a genuine perspective.

Prior Disclosure of the Show Highlights and Fabulous Concurrent Events

AIC 2016 highlights and fabulous concurrent events were released during the press conference. "The exhibitor recruitment has officially come to an end with satisfactory results. The scale is further expanded as two exhibition halls are newly added, which increases the number of indoor exhibition halls to 8. Total exhibition space reaches 28,000 square meters with 320 exhibitors participated, covering global brands in multiple industry sectors, including motor homes, caravans, caravan accessories, campsites, outdoor leisure products and travel destinations, etc." said Mr. Tetris Zhang, the project director of AIC 2016 at the press conference.

This year, supporting events are not only splendid, but also more creative and featured comparing to those of last year, where the most updated industry information and technology are combined with the transmission of caravan culture.

Industrial events aim at increasing B2B business and trade matchmaking at the exhibition and introducing more international elements, including: China RV Campsite Resource and Capital Match-making Meeting, National RV Dealers Breakfast Meeting, Brief Sharing Seminar on German RV Policy, Standard and Caravan Salon, Case Study of Sino-Europe RV Technology Cooperation, The Launch Ceremony of 2016 China Campground Experience Program Brochure and China Campground Map 2016, Experience Sharing of Organizing RV Travel Group from Europe to China for Ten Times by Mr. Konstantin Abert, Dometic Workshop, Business Matchmaking for Campgrounds and Financial Platform. Additionally, caravan brands such as RV International、Dethleffs、North RV、Yutong、Brilliance International、SAIC Motor Commercial Vehicle、CenTech、Hymer、Broadriver-horse will release their 2016 new models during the exhibition and present their latest technology and products to  the professional buyers and end consumers.

Cultural activities open to the public are also an important part of the exhibition. Since the second day of the exhibition, 19th June is Father’s Day, AIC planned out a warm program called “Father’s Day • Gratitude Season”, where interactive on-site activities like “Children Caravan Hand-drawing Competition”, “Postcards to Dad”, “Sharing Session of Caravaning Life by Livezone RV Caravanners”、“Improvising Play By Dreamaker Children’s Theatre”、 “Carrera Racing Game” will be organized and make ordinary people feel closer to the caravaning life.

HKCTS First Release Road Trip Information of 3.18 Sichuan-Tibet Routes and Yunan Routes

China Travel Service (HK) Group Corporation is one of the earliest hosts of AIC. In 2010, it has built the first international standard caravan campsite - RV Park of Miyun Nanshan in Beijing. Since then it has worked intensively for 6 years in domestic caravan and camping tour by constructing featured caravan campsites at various locations. Today, HKCTS speeds up industrial deployment and expended its coverage to the western region, including Sichuan, Yunan and Gansu, etc.

During this press conference, HKCTS released road trip information of 3.18 Sichuan-Tibet routes and Yunan routes officially for the first time. 318 campsite chain has covered more than 10 regions currently in the west and is estimated to reach 25-30 in total by 2016, covering Sichuan, Qinghai, Tibet, Guizhou, Xinjiang and Gansu. It does not only provide road trip tourist services including car and caravan rental, car returning at different locations and roadside assistance, but also provide over 100 road trip routes for caravans and off-road vehicles together with customized products relating to the routes.

Furthermore, Outdoor RV also first released their Yunan road trip information to the public. Outdoor, the first company specialized in road trip and caravan camping tour in Yunan provides products including car and caravan rental, car and caravan tour route and guide, camping experience, selected travel and themed activity planning. This time, four featured caravan landing road trip routes were unveiled, including two outbound routes and two provincial routes.

During AIC 2016, HKCTS will also launch caravan selected routes focusing on Sichuan-Tibet, Yunnan-Southeast Asia and Silk Road as well as two series of products including Caravan Leisure Farm, bringing people closer to nature.

Meanwhile, “Life Guide of Caravan Tour in China” wrote and edited by HKCTS Caravan Club in December 2015 will be sold during AIC. This is the first caravan tour guide in China, demonstrating the unremitting endeavor of HKCTS to promote the caravaning lifestyle.

Media and Industry Experts Voted for 2016 AIC China Caravan Ambassador

China Caravan Ambassador Contest is one of the most well-received traditions of AIC. During the past 4 editions, AIC collected cases from over 50 caravaners. By promoting their stories of traveling in caravans, the caravaning lifestyle and travel culture is extensively spread. This year, AIC moved the expert voting to the spot of press conference, video-connecting with the candidates equips the appraisal session with more fairness, openness and impartiality. The final score is composed of online voting and expert review. The online voting has not finished yet and the final results will be unveiled during AIC 2016!

Firsthand Experience of Camping and Caravaning Life

After the press conference, the media experienced an in-depth tour at Nanshan Caravan Town. By using camping equipments, communicating with the campsite staffs and interviewing practitioners, they learned sufficiently about the operation pattern and status of development of caravan campsites and had a lot expectation to this industry.

During the night, the participants had an even more profound experience of camping life through all kinds of recreation activities such as living in caravans, barbecue, campfire party and outdoor movies.

With 5 years of development, AIC 2016 is now ready for a new edition. On 18-20 June, a caravan festival will be held at Beijing Exhibition Center and again lead a new trend of caravaning culture.

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