Dragon Trail Wins at the Weixin Developer Challenge 2026

Dragon Trail’s CTO Paris Wang (fifth from right) accepts the AI Application Award

Dragon Trail International took home four prizes from the Weixin Developer Challenge 2026 Asia-Pacific Stop on 16 June in Shenzhen, awarded for WeChat mini-program solutions for the tourism industry created by our developer team.

We were honored to win two Best Tourism Solution Awards for our work developing mini-programs for the Hong Kong Tourism Board and Rotorua, New Zealand. Dragon Trail also won the AI Application Award for our development work for the Tourism Authority of Thailand and Rotorua, as well as a Nomination Award given to short-listed companies in this highly competitive challenge. Dragon Trail’s CTO Paris Wang and Senior Product Architect Kermit Yu accepted the awards in Shenzhen, accompanied by our CEO George Cao, and VP of Growth Shawn Li.

(Left to right) Dragon Trail’s Shawn Li, Paris Wang, Kermit Yu, and George Cao

Tencent’s annual innovation competition challenges developers to create WeChat mini-programs based on business briefs from 10 participating sponsor organizations, mostly from the tourism and hospitality industry. Around 40 vendors, including Dragon Trail, participated in this year’s challenge. In total, Dragon Trail’s team submitted nine entries, six of which were among the 50 short-listed entries invited to present on 16 June in Shenzhen.

The Weixin Developer Challenge features stops in various world regions throughout the year, including the Middle East and Europe, and Dragon Trail looks forward to participating in more of these competitions and creating more WeChat mini-program solutions for global tourism brands in the future.