The Flanders region of Belgium opened a tourism office in
Beijing Tuesday, hoping to attract more Chinese tourists and
business people to the world's largest diamond trading area.
Flanders includes six unique historical cities of Belgium such
as Brussels and Leuven. For Chinese visitors, they can travel from
one city to another within one hour's drive. Eighty percent of
world's diamond was traded there.
Wealthy Chinese people will love the diamonds of Flanders, said
Karel Ooms, chief representative of Flanders Tourist Office in
Beijing.
Hopefully China and Flanders will strengthen tourism exchanges
in the near future, said Mark Andries, chief of the cabinet of
tourism.
(Xinhua News Agency December 6, 2006)
