In what will mark a new format for the event, a global team event will be held on a biennial basis with the individual Championships taking place in the year in between, except in the year of the Paralympics when neither event will take place.

This marks a contrast from the most recent staging of the World Championships in Beijing last year, where both team and individual events were held. 

More informations is available on the ITTF website here, with those interested urged to contact ITTF Programme Coordinator Emese Barsai via email here.

Applications are due to close on October 1.

Cities are being urged to "show the city or town that is selected to the rest of the world; especially through the modern media as the speed at which information is transmitted becoming ever more instant".

The ITTF has attracted 200,000 fans on Facebook, 80,000 subscribers on YouTube and 13,000 on Twitter, evidence of the popularity of the sport, it is claimed. 

The event is due to mark the seventh edition of the World Para-Table Tennis Championships since an inaugural event in Assen, The Netherlands, in 1990.

Further editions have subsequently been held in Paris, Taipei, Montreux and Gwangju ahead of last year's competition in the Chinese capital.

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