The Europe–China Tourism Dialogue Ministerial Meeting and Conference, organised in the framework of Hungary’s EU presidency, opened in Budapest on Wednesday. Addressing the event in the evening, National Economy Minister Márton Nagy said that Hungary played a “special role” in ties between China and the EU thanks to efforts to advance its own relations with the Far East.
Nagy said projections pointed to a marked rise in the number of Chinese tourists arriving in Europe in the coming years. Thanks to the strengthening of Hungarian-Chinese ties, the number of guest nights spent by Chinese tourists in Hungary climbed over 300,000 last year, he added.
