China Southern Airlines has signed on as the sponsor for the Sydney Festival for the next three years and believes Australia is on the cusp of a travel boom that will see one million Chinese visiting Australia by 2020.

On the eve of Sydney Festival’s Symphony in the Domain, Executive Vice President of China Southern Air Holding Company and President and CEO of China Southern Airlines, Mr Tan Wan’geng made the announcement of the continued sponsorship, saying that the airline saw Australia as an important source of travellers to China and the rest of the world on its global network.