China News Service, Danzhai, Guizhou, April 10 (Reporter Yang Qian) From April 9th ​​to 10th, the "Guizhou Rural Tourism and B&B Industry High-quality Development Conference" was held in Wanda Town, Danzhai County, Guizhou.

  With the theme of "New Business Forms Boosting Guizhou's Tourism Industrialization", this conference aims to seize opportunities such as the national "village revitalization" strategy and Guizhou's "vigorous promotion of tourism industrialization" to efficiently integrate Guizhou's rural tourism and homestay resources to promote the formation The rural tourism and homestay industry with distinctive characteristics, diversified business types, first-class services, and large-scale development will help Guizhou's cultural tourism industry to upgrade and grow, and contribute to the construction of a colorful Guizhou tourism province.

  "'Stay down' used to be the shortcoming and bottleneck of rural tourism in Guizhou. After the vigorous promotion during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, Guizhou's homestays and inns have developed rapidly. The total amount has increased by nearly five times in the past three years. Village homestay clusters represented by Zhai, Wanfenglin, Libo, etc. and a batch of boutique homestay products." Li Fang, deputy director of the Guizhou Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, said that Guizhou’s rural tourism and homestay industry should achieve high-quality development through research Policies, in-depth promotion of resource development, continuous promotion of file upgrades, innovative and integrated development, and efforts to innovate rural tourism development mechanisms and operating mechanisms will focus on five aspects.

The rural tourism market in Guizhou has strong demand and outstanding driving effect. It will definitely do a lot in practicing the new development concept, integrating into the new development pattern, and promoting the "tourism industrialization".

  Zhang Xiaojun, chairman of the China Tourism Association Homestay and Boutique Inn Branch, mentioned the development direction of homestays in the current market environment.

"The homestay is not just a bedboard, but also a living host. The introduction of more distinctive cultural elements is imminent." Zhang Xiaojun said that the development issue of homestays is not land, not funds, but people.

The government should use appropriate means to attract investment, so that more people with culture and stories can come to Guizhou and make more homestays with sentimentality.

In the post-epidemic era, fighting alone can no longer meet the needs of the rapid development of homestays. In the future, we will need to "warm up the group" and develop in the direction of homestay clusters, homestay villages, homestay industrialization, and homestay community construction, hierarchization, standardization, and legalization Should be synchronized.

  "The development of Guizhou homestays from start-up to scale, from business to model, from product to industry, can be said to be one of the landmark achievements of Guizhou Tourism in the "Golden 10 Years"." Executive Secretary of the International Mountain Tourism Alliance, Guizhou Tourism Association Chairman Fu Yingchun said that Guizhou’s mountainous natural and humane ecological environment is very typical. He hopes that the rural tourism and homestay industry will closely focus on the decision-making and deployment of the provincial party committee and the provincial government and the great cause of rural revitalization, and the theme of mountain tourism will condense the wisdom of all members. Together with strength, we will jointly embark on a characteristic road of mountain characteristics, rural tourism and the development of homestays.

  "Although there are difficulties in the development of Guizhou homestays such as uneven distribution, lack of high-quality homestay clusters, lack of brand effect, and difficulty in matching the supporting needs of some high-quality tourism products in the province, Guizhou's homestay industry is still a "blue ocean" with great development potential. "Wu Bi, chairman of the Rural Tourism and B&B Development Branch of the Guizhou Tourism Association, analyzed the problems and prospects of Guizhou B&Bs.

He said that in 2021, the B&B Branch will continue to adopt the method of "1 purpose + 2 services + 4 promotion" to create a "Four Seasons B&B in Guizhou" cultural tourism promotion investment committee and Guizhou Province B&B service platform to help the high-quality development of Guizhou's economy and society. .

  According to preliminary statistics, as of October 2020, Guizhou has 4,500 homestays and inns (including homestays, inns, theme apartments, family hotels, youth hostels, resorts, etc.) with approximately 90,000 beds.

Among them, high-end boutique homestays accounted for only 4% (less than 200).

From 2016 to 2019, the total number of B&Bs and Inns in Guizhou Province has increased by 5 times compared with the previous three years.

In the province's accommodation facilities, the total amount of bed and breakfasts accounted for 10%.

  In recent years, the rural tourism and homestay industry in Guizhou has developed rapidly, and a number of online celebrity homestays with good looks and traffic have emerged one after another, becoming one of the important carriers of dissemination and endorsement of "mountain aesthetics".

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