During the National Day, there was a long queue at the ticket gate of the Reed Flute Scenic Area. Photo by reporter Ma Xiang
On the 4th, tourists took a bamboo raft tour at the Yulong River. Photo by reporter Li Kai
Yesterday was the last day of this year's National Day holiday. The reporter learned from the Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film and Television and Tourism that during this year's National Day Golden Week holiday, Guilin City harvested a double harvest of reception and tourism consumption. Relevant statistics show that as of 5 p.m. yesterday, the city received a total of 3.8482 million tourists, an increase of 49.67% over last year; tourism consumption was 4.348 billion yuan, an increase of 38.06% over last year.
1. Strong recovery of tourism CCTV has focused on Guilin many times
According to the calculation of the Golden Week Tourism Statistics System of the Autonomous Region, the city received a total of 3.8482 million tourists from 1 to 7 days, an increase of 49.67% in 2020 and 32.81% year-on-year in 2019 according to comparable caliber (8 days of National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival leave in 2020) and 4.348 billion yuan in tourism consumption, an increase of 38.06% according to comparable caliber in 2020, and an increase of 22.12% over 2019. Among them, there were 3.2074 million day-trip tourists, accounting for 83.35%, 640,800 overnight tourists, and 71.85% of tourist accommodation facilities.
Since the 1st, Zhengyang Dongxi Lane Historical and Cultural Block, Yangshuo West Street, Shili Gallery Scenic Area, Longji Rice Terrace Scenic Area, etc. have been full of tourists. On the morning of the 2nd, some piers in the Yulong River Scenic Area have reached the upper limit of reception, receiving a total of 104,400 tourists during the holiday, and the number of views of the WeChat public account of the scenic spot exceeded 580 million. Xing'an Mao'er Mountain Scenic Area began to usher in passenger flow on the 2nd, and the number of tourists received during the holiday increased by 41.67% year-on-year. The tourists received by Fubo Mountain and Diecai Mountain Scenic Area increased by 492% year-on-year, the Tourists received by Lingui Hongxi Scenic Area increased by 78% year-on-year, the Tourists received by Xiaoyao Lake Scenic Area increased by 625% year-on-year, and the Lishui Renjia Scenic Area received tourists by 515% year-on-year. On the 3rd and 4th, Guilin Ancient Love performed 6 times a day, and Impression Liu Sanjie performed 3 times a night, and the venue was full.
The business consumption of relevant catering enterprises such as Chunji Roast Goose, Mai Xiangfang, Guilin Porridge City and so on totaled 5.5495 million yuan. In terms of transportation, the Guilin Railway has sent 2,009 trains from 1 to 7 days, sending a total of 429,000 passengers; Liangjiang Airport has transported 467 flights, transporting 53,000 passengers; Guilin Automobile Passenger Transport has carried 35,000 times, transporting 956,700 passengers.
The hot tourism market has attracted the attention of CCTV many times. On the 4th, the CCTV news channel "Chaowen Tianxia" column reported the beauty of more than 60,000 drunken butterfly flowers in Guilin Garden Expo Garden entering the blooming period. On the 5th, CCTV's "News Network" broadcast a 720-meter-long "golden dragon" in Yangshuo County set sail on the Yulong River, and many tourists enjoyed the news of wonderful performances by the river.
2. Wonderful tourism activities "micro-vacation" is popular
Before the festival, the city launched the 2021 "Autumn and Winter Benefiting the People Season to Enjoy Guilin" activity, and major cultural and tourism enterprises launched a blockbuster tourism preferential policy of up to 3.3% off tickets for Guilin citizens.
Jeonju Dabitou is favored by family tours with its wonderful fairy tale town and Yuntian Health Spa surrounded by green trees in the middle of the mountain. The Two Rivers and Four Lakes Scenic Area presented a water dance show with great national style and ancient charm on rong lake. Mulong Lake Scenic Area changed its previous low profile and grandly launched the Guilin Songcheng MulongHu Animation Festival and the 8th Guilin Storm Animation Exhibition.
Pingle County hosted the 2021 Guilin Pingle Fencing Open, which was the first time that Guangxi held a national fencing competition, attracting many fencing enthusiasts from all over the country to come to watch the competition. Lingchuan Jiangtou Village held the Eilean Culture and Art Festival, which stimulated the consumption of "peripheral tours" during the holiday. The "Guangxi Guanyang Cup" Jihan Street Formula Racing South China Invitational Competition was staged on the asphalt road of guanyang county sports center and the Qilin Mountain Road of 10,000 mu pear garden, attracting many tourists to watch.
Tourism in Guilin presents a comprehensive tour of water, land and air. There are boat tours of the two rivers and four lakes, drifting of the Yulong River, night tour of the Pingle Gui River and three-star, four-star, five-star cruises to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the Li River; on land or by bicycle or on foot immersion experience of Guilin landscape, in the clouds of the Longji Terraces and Buni Terraces to enjoy the natural scenery such as rice terraces, flower sea terraces; in the air there are not only Yangshuo Ruyi Peak Ropeway with panoramic views of Yangshuo, sightseeing balloons, but also high-end helicopter tours.
The newly opened Guilin Sunac International Tourism Resort in June this year focuses on eating, drinking and Tesco, which has become the preferred punching method for the majority of tourists to micro-vacation. Since the 1st, the park has ushered in a peak of tourists, receiving more than 40,000 tourists, more than 60,000 visitors on the 2nd and 3rd, and a total of 290,000 tourists on 1-7 days.
Since last year, the normalization of epidemic prevention has profoundly changed people's travel habits, and the demand for peripheral tourism has shown a deep development trend of high frequency and fragmentation. Spend two or three days in the surrounding ancient towns, villages, homestays and other places to take a nap, or three or five friends to travel by car, fully feel the beauty of the landscape in front of you, has become a way of life for people, but also an important growth point of tourism consumption.
In the surrounding tour, "camping" is the most attractive game for young people this year. For example, the "National Day Enjoyment" camp carnival held by The Lingqu Scenic Area attracted a large number of tourists to participate, and the scenic spot received 229,500 tourists during the National Day period, an increase of 525% year-on-year.
3. Cultural feast adds color "double subtraction" detonates parent-child study tours
During the National Day holiday, the cultural consumption project of excavating the profound heritage of traditional culture and injecting the feelings of home and country has become the highlight of cultural life during the National Day holiday.
More and more citizens choose to enter the museums and exhibition halls at the "doorstep" to "recharge" themselves, and the cultural and expo venues in Guilin have also used their "full strength" to attract tourists. Guilin Museum held activities such as "Guilin Red Memory - Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China Guilin Red Cultural Heritage Photo Exhibition", "I am a beam of light - children's voices flying to praise the motherland" flash mob activities, "Red Story Teenagers Say - Guibo Volunteers Tell Red Stories", "The Motherland in My Heart - Handicraft Experience" and other activities.
Lingchuan County held the 2021 National Day To Feel the Gratitude of the Party and Follow the Party Theme Square Dance Competition; Xing'an County held the "Reading a Hundred Years of History, Striving for a New Journey" Red Classic Reading Competition; Yanshan District held the National Day National Unity Great Integration Literary and Art Performance; the Memorial Hall of the Guilin Office of the Eighth Route Army held the "My Dream Chinese Dream" classic poetry recitation theme activity.
The theme of these activities is inseparable from the word "home country". While meeting the new expectations of the people's spiritual and cultural life, we will further carry forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture. The Red Army Long March Breakthrough Xiangjiang Martyrs Monument Park, the Red Army Long March Xiangjiang Battle Memorial Park, and the Red Army Long March Xiangjiang Battle Xinwei Resistance Battle Memorial Park in Xing'an, Jeonju and Guanyang received a total of 312,900 tourists.
This year's National Day holiday is the first long holiday after the introduction of the national "double reduction" policy, there is no subject training class, primary and secondary school students' extracurricular time has been further increased, study tour as a set of learning and travel experience in one of the extracurricular activities, the market is popular signs are obvious. Especially with the help of the National Day holiday, parent-child study tours provide parents with a new way of education, and parents have opened the "walking baby" mode.
Journalist Ma Xiang