{"id":38903,"date":"2019-02-25T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-recognized-as-the-most-distinctive-tourist\/"},"modified":"2019-02-25T19:58:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T19:58:07","slug":"rwanda-recognized-as-the-most-distinctive-tourist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-recognized-as-the-most-distinctive-tourist\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda recognized as &#8220;the most distinctive tourist destination&#8221; at the Guangzhou Fair."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Founded in 1993, this year&#8217;s annual event brought together more than 150 exhibitors from 55 countries to present and promote their products.<\/p>\n<p>During the exhibition, the Rwandan Embassy in China promoted tourism products made in Rwanda (made in Rwanda). The Embassy also announced the start of RwandAir &#8216;s commercial flights to Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong Province in southern China.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is now more convenient for Chinese tourists to visit Rwanda because they can book Rwandan tourism products online through VisitRwanda&#8217;s flagship store on&#8221; Fliggy &#8220;, an Alibaba tourism application,&#8221; said Charles Kayonga, Ambassador of Rwanda in China.<\/p>\n<p>He added that RwandAir&#8217;s flights to Guangzhou will facilitate trade between the two countries, boost tourism and investment, and trade between China and Africa in general.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, more than 8,000 Chinese tourists visited Rwanda. The figure is expected to increase in 2019, according to official forecasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda recognized as &#8220;the most distinctive tourist destination&#8221; at the Guangzhou Fair.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda has been named the most distinctive tourist destination of the Guangzhou International Tourism Fair, one of the most popular tourist events in China.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1993, this year&#8217;s annual event brought together more than 150 exhibitors from 55 countries to present and promote their products.<\/p>\n<p>During the exhibition, the Rwandan Embassy in China promoted tourism products made in Rwanda (made in Rwanda). The Embassy also announced the start of RwandAir &#8216;s commercial flights to Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong Province in southern China.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is now more convenient for Chinese tourists to visit Rwanda because they can book Rwandan tourism products online through VisitRwanda&#8217;s flagship store on&#8221; Fliggy &#8220;, an Alibaba tourism application,&#8221; said Charles Kayonga, Ambassador of Rwanda in China.<\/p>\n<p>He added that RwandAir&#8217;s flights to Guangzhou will facilitate trade between the two countries, boost tourism and investment, and trade between China and Africa in general.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, more than 8,000 Chinese tourists visited Rwanda. The figure is expected to increase in 2019, according to official forecasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38903"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38903"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}