Asia
Asia members of World Tourism Cities Federation (WTCF)
Jakarta
Located on the northwest coast of Java, Jakarta is the economic, cultural and political centre of Indonesia, and the most populous city in Southeast Asia.
Beijing
Beijing is an ancient and modern city. The garden sites, ancient temples and imperial mausoleums inject a profound historical connotation into Beijing; numerous talents, cultural relics and former residences concentrate the essence of Chinese arts and culture.
Dubai
Dubai owns the first seven-star hotel (Burj Al Arab Hotel) in the world, the highest skyscraper (Burj Khalifa) and the largest indoor ski field in the world, etc. It has nearly become the symbolic of luxury, with its dynamic real estate, competition and talks that have nearly created world records attracting the eyes of the world.
Seoul
Seoul, short for Seoul City, was called Hansung in the past. It is the capital of the Republic of Korea, the largest city in the Korean peninsula and one of the major financial capitals in Asia. It is also the center of politics, economics, technology, and culture in the Republic of Korea.
Yangzhou
Owing to its thousands of year’s history, graceful environment, Yangzhou was awarded the “UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour” by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme in 2006.
Almaty
Almaty is a center of finance, technology, education and culture in Kazakhstan and even the whole Central Asia, and is the largest city in Central Asia, and the third largest city in the CIS.
Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh is located in the south-central region of Cambodia, at the confluence of the Tonlé Sap, Mekong, and Bassac rivers. These rivers provide potential freshwater and river ecosystems as important resources for sustainable environment conditions, nature’s beauty and a prosperous culture for the people of Phnom Penh City from the past to the present.
Penang
Penang was founded by Mr. Francis Light from the UK in 1786, where Britons, Malayans, Chinese people and Indians congregated. Penang is the second largest city in Malaysia, where a total of 1.7 million residents live.
Xiamen
Xiamen, the sub-provincial city of Fujian Province, is one of the five municipalities specifically designated in the state plan as well as one of China’ first batch of five special economic zones implementing the policy of opening up.
Nanjing
In Jiangnan, there is a place looks so fascinating. Its temperament has impressed lots of emperors and officials since ancient times. Its charm has enchanted many scholars at home and abroad. The place is Nanjing, China.
Kathmandu
Kathmandu is a blender of tradition and modernity, where you can still find horses, cattle, dogs and chickens on the streets and the roads.
Nur-Sultan
Nur-Sultan, formerly known as Astana, is the capital of Kazakhstan in Central Asia, and the second largest financial center of Kazakhstan.
Dalian
Dalian is in the South of the Liaodong Peninsula, opposite to the Shandong Peninsula. It is at the coast of Huang Bohai, and in the hinterland of Dongbei. It is an important harbor for the Eastern China economic, trading, tourism, and industrial fields.
Colombo
Colombo is Sri Lanka s largest city, located on the southwestern coast of the Ceylon Peninsula, south of Kranj. Colombo in Sinhalese means ``ocean paradise `` with a long history.
Wuhan
With a history of 3,500 years, Wuhan is one of the most time-honored large cities in China. Since the Spring and Autumn Warring State Period, Wuhan has been a key military and commercial city in southern China.
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv is the largest city and also the industrial, commercial and cultural center of Israel.
Hangzhou
Hangzhou is well-known for the West Lake, which enjoys charming landscapes of hills at three sides and water surrounding and presents its beautiful natural scenery featuring “always charming with either light or heavy make-up” to the world from ancient times.
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is known for its skyline and deep natural harbor. It shares its northern border with the Guangdong Province of the mainland. Its service sector-dominated economy is characterized by free trade and low taxation.
Bandung
Bandung is the capital of West Java province in Indonesia. The city is the third largest in Indonesia and is renowned as the “Paris of Java”.
Busan
Busan is a harbor city always lively and energetic with people, fish, and seafood, The city is always crowed everywhere in the markets and streets.
Kunming
With the annual average temperature of 14.8 degrees Celsius, all year round as spring and flowers in full bloom, Kunmig enjoy the fame of ``Spring City ``.
Guangzhou
Guangzhou is one of the cities of the first group of “Famous Chinese Historical and Cultural cities” publicized by the State Council of China with a history of over 2,200 years.
Tanjung Pandan
Tanjung Pandan is the largest town on the island Belitung in the Indonesian province of Bangka-Belitung. Tanjung Pandan is the capital of the Belitung Regency comprising one of the five districts.
Gwangju
It is the fifth largest city in South Korean, and also an administrative, military, economic, social and cultural hub city in the southwest of South Korean.
Macao
Macao is situated in the southeast coastal area of Mainland China. Over the past four hundred years, this was the place for fusion of Chinese and western cultures.
Qingdao
Qingdao is the first excellent tourist city in China located in the south of Shandong Peninsula. It is an important transportation hub and the main port for overseas visitors.
Tianjin
As one of the first batch of excellent tourism cities in China, Tianjin takes pride in its rich natural resources and humanistic resources which reflect the modern history and civilization.
Ashgabat
Ashgabat is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, the initial foundation of which dates back to 1881. Turkmenistan’s capital - Ashgabat has an ancient history.
Muscat
Situated between the Sea of Oman and the Eastern Hajar Mountains, Muscat s beautiful natural scenery is matched by the style and atmosphere of its townscape.
Tbilisi
Tbilisi definitely is one of the most ancient, mysterious, vivid and colorful cities in the world
Yerevan
Yerevan is one of the ancient cities of the world. It was founded in 782B.C. by Urartian King Argishti I. This is evidenced by the cuneiform inscription, which was founded in the ruins of Erebouni fortress.
Altay
Altay Prefecture is located in northern Xinjiang, with an area of 117,800 square kilometers, a population of 660,000 and hosting multiple ethnic groups with Kazakh as the majority. Bordering Altay Mountains in the north, Junggar Basin in the south, hosting the Irtysh River, the Ulungur River, the Kanas Lake, the Ulungur Lake and the Sandaohaizi Lake, Altay Prefecture is extremely rich in tourism resources.
Karachi
Ranked as a beta world city, the city is Pakistan s premier industrial and financial center. Karachi is also Pakistan s most cosmopolitan city. Situated on the Arabian Sea, Karachi serves as a transport hub, and is home to two of Pakistan s two largest seaports, the Port of Karachi and Port Bin Qasim, as well as the busiest airport in Pakistan.
Xi'an
It is the birth place of Chinese civilization. As the starting point of the Silk Road, Xi’an is China’s most influential capital with over 3,100-year city history and 1,100-year capital history.
Mudanjiang
Mudanjiang is famous for waters, forests, snow, border, and culture. There are many lakes, rivers, volcanoes, and wetlands in the city, including China’s AAAAA tourism spot Jingpo Lake.
Samarkand
Samarkand is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, the second largest city of Uzbekistan and is of the same age as the city of Babylon or Rome.
Dushanbe
Dushanbe, the capital city of the republic, is located in Hissar Valley in the south of Tajikistan. It was named this way because it grew from a village that originally had a popular market on Monday.
Galle
16th century when Portuguese were occupying most of Sri Lanka and then under the rule of the Dutch as well. In the 19th century, the British developed the Colombo seaport and the use of the Galle Port declined. More than any aspect of Galle, the history of this beautiful city is the most intriguing.
Petra
The city is famous for its rock-cut architecture and water conduit system. Another name for Petra is the Rose City due to the color of the stone out of which it is carved. Petra is one of the “New7Wonders of the World”.
Qinhuangdao
Located at the foot of Yanshan Mountain, and built on the coast of Bohai Sea, the city of Qinhuangdao borders on Liangning Province in its east and is adjacent to Beijing and Tianjin in its west.
Harbin
Special historical processes and geographical location contribute to the exotic beauty of city of Harbin and it is known as the ``Oriental Moscow `` .
Datong
Datong City has long history and rich cultural deposit. Surrounded by both inner and outer Great Wall and with Yellow River running through, Datong has splendid landscape and spectacular scenery.
Luoyang
Situated on the central plain of China, Luoyang is one of the cradles of Chinese civilization, and is one of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China.
Jiaozuo
Jiaozuo has the sites of Peiligang Culture, Yangshao Culture and Longshan Culture. It is also the birthplace of China’s historical and cultural celebrities such as Sima Yi, Han Yu, Li Shangyin, Zhu Zaiyu, Xu Heng, Shan Tao and Xiang Xiu.
Shanghai
Shanghai is a fantastic city which always combines the most fashionable elements with the most classic and nostalgic ones delicately.
Sapporo
As a metropolis in Japan’s Hokkaido region, Sapporo is the political, economic and cultural center of Hokkaido and also Japan’s fifth largest city.
Guilin
It is famous for the landscapes in its territory, and enjoys the reputation that ``the scenery of Guilin is the best under heaven `` for thousands of years.
Bangkok
As the political, economic, cultural, culinary, and spiritual capital of Thailand, Bangkok features both old-world charm and modern convenience, at times served up in an apparently chaotic manner, but always with a gracious smile.
Anuradhapura
Located in the north of Sri Lanka, Anuradhapura is the first ancient capital of the country. The city is located about 208 km from the capital, Colombo, which takes about 5 hours to get there.
Malacca
Malacca is the capital of Malacca State which is located in the north bank of Malacca Strait and it is separated from Indonesia’s Sumatra Island by sea.
Taiyuan
Taiyuan is the capital of Shanxi Province. It lies on the Fen River, surrounded by mountains in three sides. It is an ancient capital with the history of over 2500 years.
Sanya
Sanya, also called the City of Deer, is reputed as “Hawii in the East”. Boasting the most beautiful coastal scenery all over the whole Hainan Island, Sanya tops China’s four first-tier tourism cities, followed by Weihai, Hangzhou and Xiamen.
Zhangjiajie
Zhangjiajie is located in the northwest of Hunan Province and in the hinterland of Wuling Mountain Chain. Its peculiar geological forms the rare marvelous “Zhangjiajie Landform”, and the grand and mysterious. Wulingyuan Quartz Sandstone Stick-Peak is the most impressive and can be reputed as “Earth s memorial”.