China News Service, Guangzhou, February 18 (Reporter Cheng Jingwei) The Guangdong Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism announced on the 17th that according to preliminary estimates, during the Spring Festival holiday in 2021, Guangdong Province received 39.643 million tourists, including tourists from the province ( (Including city tourists) accounted for 93.3%; the province's total tourism income was 20.48 billion yuan.

  During the Spring Festival holiday, the ranking of tourist reservations in Guangdong scenic spots continued to lead the country.

From February 11th to 17th, the total number of tourist reservations in key scenic spots in the province was 2.217 million, of which 15 national 5A tourist attractions had more than 700,000 reservations. The top three were Guangzhou Changlong Tourism Resort and Huizhou West Lake Scenery Scenic spots, Baiyun Mountain Scenic Spot in Guangzhou.

  During the Spring Festival, Qingyuan Gulongxia Scenic Area received a total of 139,300 tourists, an increase of 31% compared to the same period in 2019, and once again became the leader of tourism in northern Guangdong.

Although there has been a substantial increase in tourists, the scene of the scenic spot is in order. Tourists wear masks and consciously keep their distance from the team.

During the Spring Festival holiday, Gulongxia, Qingyuan, Guangdong welcomed many tourists.

Photo by Liu Qing

  The leisure and holiday tourism market in Guangdong Province is booming, and the hot spring scenic spots are popular among tourists in the province.

Among them, in Longmen County, Huizhou City, the average occupancy rate of hotels in most local hot spring scenic spots such as Yunding Hot Spring and Nankun Mountain Villa during the Spring Festival is over 85%, and the occupancy rate of Dipai Hot Spring Forest Resort and Lingnan Garden Hot Spring Resort is as high as 100 for several consecutive days. %; In Conghua District, Guangzhou, the occupancy rate of many well-known hot spring hotels such as Guangdong Hot Spring Hotel also reached 100%.

  According to Zhang Haiwang, secretary general of the Guangdong Hot Spring Industry Association, starting on February 8 this year, some member companies have ushered in a peak of customer sources, with an average price of more than 1,000 yuan, and room bookings continued until February 18.

  Under the "New Year's Day in Place" initiative, Guangdong's cultural tourism market during the Spring Festival holiday this year has a "New Year" and "Affection".

The reporter learned that the Guangdong Scenic Area Industry Association, in conjunction with the major scenic spots in the province, organized the "Stay in Guangdong to celebrate the New Year's scenic red packet to send you to play" during the Spring Festival, providing more than 50,000 free red packets worth more than 4 million yuan. To the general public and workers in Guangdong.

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