Organized this year by the China National Tourism Administration, Shanghai Municipal People's Government, and General Administration of Civil Aviation of China, CITM is an annual event that is held in Shanghai and Kunming alternatively. As the largest professional travel mart in Asia, CITM has drawn the attention of people in the tourism industry worldwide. Participants in CITM come from all sectors of the travel industry including international and domestic tourist organizations, travel agencies, hotels, airlines and related travel companies.

Paul Doyle, BDL Media's president and the publisher of China Hospitality News, will be leading a delegation of staff from the company's offices in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, and Beijing to the Shanghai event. BDL Media will not only be promoting its China Hospitality News, but also its other travel-related promotional and technology services such as 51MICE.com, Xinwengao.com, ChinaNewswire.com, Xianzai.com, Xianzai.cn, ChinaTravelNow.com, and XZList.com.

The CITM Organizing Committee is sparing no effort to invite, through various channels, buyers with strong competitiveness from Greater China and other countries and regions in the world, to participate in the mart. Strict participation conditions and invitation procedures will guarantee the quality of buyers, so that the participants will surely enjoy the great benefits at CITM.

Chosen from among nearly a thousand nominees, Danny Levinson will join leaders from diverse backgrounds and expertise such as business, government, academia, media, civil society, and the arts to explore the most challenging issues facing the region and to develop new collaborative proposals for how these challenges can addressed at a time both of global economic uncertainty and reorientation of the international political order toward the East.

The Summit is part of the larger Asia 21 Young Leaders Initiative - the pre-eminent gathering of Asia's most dynamic young leaders from the Asia-Pacific region. At the Summit, young leaders will explore possibilities for using values-based leadership to develop equitable and sustainable solutions to shared challenges posed to the Asia-Pacific community. Discussions will center on the global financial crisis and the increasing scarcity of vital resources. Delegates will also develop proposals for group public service projects. In addition to a keynote speech, break-out sessions, group discussions, and a debate, the Summit will feature lively cultural performances.

Danny Levinson, 34, is American and has lived in China for almost 12 years working in the Internet, advertising, media, and direct marketing sectors. He brings to the Summit a unique perspective on the interactions between corporations and non-governmental organizations working in China to foster stronger ties and better social interaction. BDL Media, where Levinson serves as CEO, owns among its businesses in China those that focus on the intersections between NGOs and corporations. In addition, Levinson serves as a board member on China-based software businesses.

"The young leaders meeting in Tokyo this week represent the future of the Asia-Pacific community," says Asia Society Executive Vice President Jamie Metzl, who spearheads the Asia 21 Initiative. "These leaders will need to know each other, share ideas, and learn to work together to make this Asia-Pacific century as peaceful, prosperous, just, sustainable and secure as it can be. We at the Asia Society are proud to be working with our many partners around the region and the young leaders themselves to help collectively build a better future for the region."

The Summit is supported by founding international sponsor Merrill Lynch, as well as Shinsei Bank, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Marubeni, Mitsui OSK Lines, Heidrick & Struggles, ANA, Mori Building, Orix, Yomiuri, Ashoka Innovators for the Public, Hitotsubashi University, Keizai Doyukai, Cosmo and the Government of Japan

"These challenging times demand collaboration across borders and sectors in order to generate innovative, fresh solutions," said Jason Brand, President of Merrill Lynch Pacific Rim. "The Asia 21 Young Leaders can demonstrate their leadership by using this powerful network to create economic, political, and environmental change. Merrill Lynch looks forward to working with them to balance the demands of the marketplace with the desire to benefit the region at large."

This year's delegates include the New Zealand ambassador to South and North Korea, a Malaysian Member of Parliament, a Bangladesh Supreme Court lawyer, and some of the region's leading social entrepreneurs, journalists, artists, politicians and business leaders with compelling backgrounds and diverse expertise.

The Summit aims to prepare tomorrow's leaders for the challenges and responsibilities of global citizenship, to generate creative, cross-sectoral approaches to leadership and problem solving, to build networks of trust across geographic boundaries, and to educate each other in the highest ideals of values-based leadership.

The Summit participants will join Asia 21's network of 400 past delegates and fellows in 30 countries.

For more information about Asia Society's Asia 21 initiative, including details about previous conferences and Fellows, please visit www.AsiaSociety.org/Asia21

Asia Society
The Asia Society is an international organization dedicated to strengthening relationships and deepening understanding among the peoples of Asia and the United States. We seek to increase knowledge and enhance dialogue, encourage creative expression, and generate new ideas across the fields of policy, business, education, arts, and culture.

Founded in 1956 by John D. Rockefeller 3rd, the Society reaches audiences around the world through its headquarters in New York and regional centers in Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, DC, Hong Kong, Seoul, Manila, Melbourne, Mumbai and Shanghai.The Asia Society is supported by contributions from foundations, corporations, and individuals. Asia Society is on the web at www.asiasociety.org.

Merrill Lynch
Merrill Lynch is one of the world's leading wealth management, capital markets and advisory companies, with offices in 40 countries and territories and total client assets of approximately $ 1.6 trillion. As an investment bank, it is a leading global trader and underwriter of securities and derivatives across a broad range of asset classes and serves as a strategic advisor to corporations, governments, institutions and individuals worldwide. Merrill Lynch owns just under half of BlackRock, one of the world's largest publicly traded investment management companies with approximately $ 1.4 trillion in assets under management. For more information on Merrill Lynch, please visit www.ml.com.

Founded in 1990, MSI Global Alliance, formerly known as MSI Legal & Accounting Network Worldwide, is among the world's most established international accounting and law associations and networks, and has over 250 member firms in 100 countries.

Specifically, Levinson will be talking on "China's Embrace of Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives" and how they impact foreign firms doing business in China. The Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China is soon to issue new guidance and rules on how foreign enterprises report and undertake CSR initiatives in China, and those issues along with various supply chain, logistics, and quality control issues will be part of the presentation.

Levinson will introduce BDL Media's services like Xinwengao.com, ChinaNewswire.com and ChinaCSR.com that can assist multinational firms to gain better traction within the Middle Kingdom.

BDL Media's financial and in-kind provisions will help WordCamp, a conference that focuses squarely on everything WordPress, to promote itself to more users in China. Everyone from casual end users all the way up to core developers attend these events. These events are usually highlighted by speeches or keynotes by various people.

The WordCamp Beijing 2007 was a big hit as many famous bloggers and more than 200 attendees shared their blogging experiences. This year, WordCamp Beijing is renamed as WordCamp China, and will be hosted in two cities in China: Beijing and Shanghai. The founder of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg, will give keynote speeches in both cities. The WordCamp in Beijing will take place on September 20, followed by Shanghai on September 21.

WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. Its is used as a content management system by both small and large businesses, and BDL Media is committed to using the platform to power its own services and those of its clients.

Blogs, podcasts, online forums, instant messaging and other interactive websites have created a new landscape of fresh challenges and opportunities for corporate communications professionals. Businesses have to take social media's impact into consideration for a more comprehensive communications strategy. Integrated 2.0 Communications will bring together the best and brightest minds in the industry to showcase and explore successes, failures and discuss how business can embrace new technologies and techniques to face the challenges and grab the opportunities. The conference is organized by Avail Corporation.

Levinson will present how companies are facing the challenges of Web 2.0 when they try to promote their CSR marketing and public relations initiatives in China. He will discuss the Chinese social networking channels CSR professionals can implement to communicate messages more effectively to gain buy-in from other departments and review the ways companies are delivering and presenting their CSR efforts in a story-telling manner. BDL Media's services MyRSS.cn, a Chinese news rating and monitoring service, and Xinwengao.com, the leading Chinese press release distribution service in China, will also be shown as some of the best ways to monitor and analyze a campaign's effectiveness.

Other speakers at the conference include Len Starnes, Head of Digital Marketing & Sales for General Medicine at Bayer Schering Pharma AG; Ginger Zhu, Communications Director at Nike China; Mimi Vong, Interactive Marketing Director at Pepsico; and Nor Badron, representing Worldwide Channel Public Relations at Intel.

Started in 2000, ChinaPulse.com has now selected the 600,000 businesses most pertinent to foreign travelers to China from a database of millions managed by BDL Media Limited. These businesses include dedicated search directories of restaurants, hotels, Wi-Fi hotspots, medical facilities, travel agencies, embassies, cinemas, supermarkets and schools. All the information is freely available to users, and the data includes Chinese-language addresses and contact details, as well.

ChinaPulse.com previously had a dedicated mobile version, but now the entire website is optimized for viewing on iPhones amd other wireless devices, so both desktop and mobile users need only visit www.chinpaulse.com to view and search the same data. The first sponsors for the new ChinaPulse.com website are Air China and Kempinski Hotels.

The entire ChinaPulse.com database is culled from BDL Media's direct marketing database. BDL Media verifies its database throughout the year via its call center. BDL Media also syndicates its lists of Chinese businesses to companies like China.com.