2008 CITM---China International Travel Mart (CITM), the largest travel exhibition in Asia has been successfully held at Shanghai New International Exhibition Center from 20th Nov to 23rd Nov 2008. CITM aimed at both travel trade and consumers, provided exhibitors the opportunity of multiple business talks and negotiations with international buyers, travel agents in China as well as promoting their destinations and travel products and services to large number of Chinese consumers too. CITM2008 took up exhibition area of 57,500sqm, increasing 21% over the last show, included 4112 exhibitors, 2420 of them were from China, while 1692 of them were from overseas. China Business Network(CBN) was again invited to attend and was there to support many foreign tourism promotion authorities and companies in the travel and tourism industry. World Travel Online was the media partner to support and cover the whole exhibition again.

For the first time Tanzania sent senior delegation representing Tanzania Tourist Board, Tanzania National Parks, Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority and also from the private sector such as Bobby Tours participated in the CITM 2008.