"In March 2009 almost 200 participants from China and fourteen countries in the Asia Pacific region came together in Huangshan, China for a major international conference Sustainable Tourism Management at World Heritage Sites Enhancing Inter-agency and Stakeholder Coordination for Joint Actions. ... It represented a strategic step forward in the development of sound and sustainable tourism policies and practices to ensure that tourism activity contributes to the protection and conservation of World Heritage Sites and the communities that sustain them."--Page [3].