Exhibition Economic Impact Study On A Country's Foreign Economic Relations

From occasional barter in the primeval time to the formation of conference and exhibition industry at the beginning of the last century, conference and exhibition economy has now entered into a globalization age. Based on a succinct introduction, this paper will clarify the on-going globalization of conference and exhibition economy through scale industry and enterprise internationalization. Here the enterprise mainly refers to participants in conference and exhibition, suppliers and consumers. Besides, some related precedents and specific data will be used to research and prove how conference and exhibition economy did, does and will influence external economic relations respectively in trade, investment, and personnel communication.In addition, combining the tremendous progress that China's conference and exhibition economy has achieved after the reform and opening-up with the upcoming of 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, this thesis tries to analyze and forecast China's external economic relations after Beijing Olympic Games through reviewing and summarizing 1988 Seoul Olympic Games and 2004 Athens Olympic Games. Then, some advice will be put forward especially to Beijing Olympic Games and Chinese Government who bears the strong responsibility to further external economic relations via conference and exhibition economy.