China Daily Turpan, March 21 -- In Turpan in March, spring is warm and blossoming, the scenery is pleasant, and the popularity of tourism is gradually rising with the temperature. On the morning of the 21st, the entrance of the Qanerjingyuan Scenic Area in Turpan City was lively, and more than 400 tourists and staff sang and danced with cheerful melodies to enjoy the beauty of spring.
It is understood that this is the second batch of large-scale group tourists to visit Turpan after the epidemic, from Urumqi, Ili, Qitai, Turpan and other cities in Xinjiang. As the first place in Xinjiang to usher in spring, and also the "frontier" of the recovery of Xinjiang's tourism market, 17 tourist cultural relics scenic spots in Turpan city have been open for business.
"This is the first time our whole family has gone out to play after the epidemic, and we are particularly excited. This morning we went to Jiaohe Ancient City to visit a lot of cultural relics and monuments, relaxing the mood while also allowing children to learn some historical and cultural knowledge, really very good. Tourist Ma Xiaomei said with a smile.
With the warming climate of Turpan, travel agencies in many places are enthusiastic about organizing groups. From mid-March to the end of the month, Turpan has received more than 1,000 customer collection plans from nearly 20 travel agencies. RuXian Guli Reheman, general manager of Xinjiang Travel Wild International Travel Service, introduced that after the epidemic, products such as peripheral tours have been greatly welcomed by tourists in Xinjiang, and everyone's registration enthusiasm is high. Today, only the tourists from Urumqi came to 6 cars and more than 220 people.
Ma Junjie, director of the marketing department of Turpan Tourism Co., Ltd. and general manager of Turpan Flame Mountain International Travel Service, said: "For tourists in Xinjiang, we have designed many products with a strong sense of participation and experience, such as lover's valley hiking and picking wild vegetables, Jiaohe Ancient City hands-on bread hunting, Flame Mountain hiking treasure hunting, etc., to enhance the quality of tourism products themselves. Like today's event, our lunch specially provides tourists with a variety of cereals and ingredients of health porridge, travel health and wellness kill two birds with one stone, has been unanimously praised by everyone. ”
In recent years, with the continuous deepening of the integration and development of culture and tourism, new products such as cultural research and study tours, winery experience tours, homestay leisure tours, and pastoral picking tours have emerged in an endless stream. At the same time, in view of the characteristics of Turpan's spring tourism resources, combined with the characteristics of health, green, sunshine, leisure and other characteristics, a number of spring tourism route products have been formulated.
An Jinqiang, secretary of the party group and deputy director of the Turpan Municipal Bureau of Culture, Sports and Tourism, said that the ability to restore the level of tourism services so quickly is due to our uninterrupted training and preliminary preparations in the early stage, practicing internal skills, and resuming work at the end of the epidemic. In response to the impact of the epidemic, we have newly developed a number of routes, mainly outdoor open spaces, to avoid crowds of people.
In order to speed up the recovery of the tourism market, Turpan City began to make preparations in advance, and coordinated the introduction of measures such as fee reduction and deferral of taxation, finance, electricity and other relevant departments to help solve the difficulties of tourism enterprises resuming work. Continuously improve the construction of relevant infrastructure, and introduce various preferential policies to further stimulate the release of the market, do a good job in epidemic prevention and control while improving service management, and make a good start for the "first spring" of Xinjiang tourism. (Liu Meihuizi) (China Daily Xinjiang Reporter Station)
Source: China Daily