(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Hainan Travel Agency Pressed the "Pause Button" due to the Epidemic
China News Service, Haikou, August 6 (Reporter Yin Haiming and Wang Ziqian) Hainan, as an important tourist destination in China, the tourism industry originally expected to rely on small summer tourism peaks to make up for the losses since the epidemic last year. However, due to the new round of the epidemic, the tourist reception has once again There has been a sharp drop.
After a confirmed case appeared in Hainan in early August, the travel agency business even pressed the "pause button."
Tourism is an important pillar industry in Hainan, and it mainly relies on the off-island market.
The current epidemic is spreading. There are more than 100 high school risk areas across China. Under the epidemic prevention and control situation, tourism activities have declined.
On August 1st and 5th, Haikou City, Hainan Province added 1 newly confirmed case.
Both Hainan Province and Haikou City have issued notices a few days ago, imposing strict requirements on tourism activities.
Haikou City issued a notice a few days ago, requiring tourism companies to stop organizing groups to travel to high school risk areas, not to carry out "air ticket + hotel" business to high school risk areas, and not to solicit tourists from high school risk areas to Qiong for tourism; all tourist attractions must be strictly implemented." "Limits, appointments, and peak shifts" are required to control the upper limit of tourist reception to ensure that tourist information can be queried and tracked; strictly implement the requirements for scan code registration and temperature measurement, and urge tourists to implement measures such as "one-meter noodles" and wearing masks.
The Hainan Provincial Department of Tourism, Culture, Radio, Television and Sports issued an emergency notice on the evening of the 5th, requiring resolute prevention of the spread of the epidemic through tourism and cultural venues and tourism, culture, radio, television, and sports activities.
Sun Xiangtao, deputy secretary-general of the Hainan Provincial Tourism Association, told reporters on the 6th that at present, the travel agency business in Hainan province has pressed the "pause button", and some companies have given employees a holiday. "Currently, they are dealing with a large amount of unsubscription business."
Sun Xiangtao said that in July, the company was profitable, but the travel agency business had to be suspended due to the sudden outbreak of the epidemic.
Scenic spots, hotels, catering and other enterprises are also affected.
The travel agency where he works is engaged in the outbound tourism business for residents of Hainan Island. Orders were originally scheduled until mid-August, but now there are about 30 cancellations in one day.
It is understood that travel agencies engaged in the business of traveling to the island have even more cancelled orders.
A staff member of a large scenic spot in Sanya City told reporters on the 6th that before this round of the epidemic, the scenic spot received about 10,000 tourists a day, while the reception volume on the 5th has dropped to about 2,000.
The person in charge of a well-known hotel in Hainan said on the 6th that Hainan resort hotels had good bookings in August, but there are a large number of cancellations, and the occupancy rate has generally dropped to about 20%, and some hotels have even dropped to single digits.
The impact of the epidemic on the hotel industry is expected to continue until September. "What we can do now is to do a good job in hotel epidemic prevention and improve service levels."
Hainan travel-related companies have upgraded their epidemic prevention and control measures.
The reporter saw in two duty-free shopping stores on outlying islands in Haikou Riyue Square for days that the stores had "upgraded" the epidemic prevention and control measures in accordance with government requirements "from the inside out".
In addition to wearing a mask and measuring body temperature, customers must also have a health code (green code) and itinerary code to enter the store, and must maintain a certain social distance.
Sun Xiangtao said that the epidemic is force majeure, and companies should cooperate with the government to fight the epidemic and look forward to resuming work and production as soon as possible.
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