Inter-provincial tourism accelerates recovery, Xiamen has become a keen destination for tourists during the "11th" Golden Week

　Inter-provincial tourism accelerates recovery, Xiamen has become a keen destination for tourists during the "11th" Golden Week

　　Xinhua News Agency, Xiamen, October 7 -

　　Xinhua News Agency reporter Yan Zhihong

　　This year's "October" Golden Week coincides with the "Double Festival" eight-day holiday. In the context of the ever-changing epidemic abroad, many people chose to travel across provinces in this year's Golden Week.

Data from online platforms show that Xiamen is still one of the most popular tourist destinations during the "Eleventh" Golden Week this year.

　　Ctrip's big data shows that as early as the "Eleventh" Golden Week, Xiamen's total number of travel bookings had ranked first in Fujian Province, and more than 60% of orders came from outside the province, ranking among the top tourist cities in the country.

　　On the evening of the 5th, tourists from Hangzhou, Mr. Xu and his wife, were navigating with their mobile phones, while looking for a special flavor of southern Fujian-Shacha Noodles on the streets of Xiamen.

"The theme of our trip this time is the'journey of taste', and the goal is to'pull the grass' that was previously'planted'." Mr. Xu told reporters that they took the high-speed rail from Hangzhou through Fuzhou, and then to Xiamen. Tourism popularity is indeed as prosperous as expected.

On this journey, I ate a lot of gourmet snacks with local characteristics, and my goal of "feasting" in Xiamen was basically completed.

　　"Originally we planned to go abroad this holiday, but due to the impact of the overseas epidemic, we changed our travel plan." Mr. Xu said that the high-speed rail from Fuzhou to Xiamen has a high attendance rate, which shows that everyone is enthusiastic about traveling during the National Day holiday. Still very high.

　　Like Mr. Xu, the family of tourists from Zhengzhou, Mr. Wang, also made Xiamen the final destination of this "Eleventh" Golden Week trip.

"My spouse has made a strategy early. This visit to Xiamen is a'parent-child tour'." Mr. Wang told reporters that this is the first time he took his family to visit Xiamen for sightseeing. "Children like to watch the sea, and Xiamen does not There are few places suitable for parent-child travel. This time we reserved a five-day and four-night itinerary. With more time, children can also have fun."

　　In Mr. Wang's lover's travel strategy, in addition to the itinerary of "net celebrity attractions" such as Cat Street, Shapowei, and Baicheng Beach, there are also tourism projects with island characteristics such as cycling around the island and sailing to the sea.

　　The speed of the inter-provincial tourism recovery also surprised the hotel operators on Gulangyu Island in Xiamen.

"I thought there would be no tourists from outside the province coming to travel this year. I didn't expect our room to be full from September 30 to now." On the evening of the 6th, Zhang Xiaojuan, director of the Gulangyu Family Hotel Merchants Association and director of Chaoting 1919 The reporter said that the 23 homestays he operated had already been fully booked, and more than half of the orders were contributed by tourists from outside the province. "Some tourists from other provinces told me that they have to book rooms in Gulangyu with'hands fast', a little slower. The room was robbed by others."

　　In the context of the continuous recovery of inter-provincial tourism, Xiamen’s hotel bookings during the "Eleventh" Golden Week have also been rising.

According to Xu Guangye, director of the Public Affairs Department of Qunar.com, due to restrictions on cross-border travel due to the epidemic, during the "11th" Golden Week this year, more tourists choose to travel across provinces and travel around the province.

With inter-provincial tourists and local tourists intertwined, from October 1st to 5th this year, hotel reservations in Xiamen increased by 19% year-on-year, and the average hotel price per night reached 1169.2 yuan, an increase of 28% year-on-year.