Cities engage in mutual cooperation in diverse fields. Tourism is considered as one of the most important but easy fields for cooperation. In stead of conflicts, tourism brings benefits to all sides engaged. With high resilience in income, tourism has now become a fast-growing potential industry in the Asia Pacific region.
Unlike commodity exchanges, tourism is a win-win game that generates many added values — it not only creates economic benefits for all participants but also promotes exchanges of information and knowledge. Tourism also can create potential business opportunities through vigorous exchanges of tourists, government officials, businessmen, among others. The Asia Pacific region will achieve milestone development if the inter - city cooperation ending up with bilateral relationship can transform into the pattern of multilateral relationship.