China News Service, Nanning, February 18 (Zhang Guangquan) The Department of Culture and Tourism of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region introduced on the 17th that during the 2024 Spring Festival holiday, Guangxi's cultural and tourism market operated safely and orderly. The north-south interactive "exchange winter" cold escape tours and night tours have become new hot spots in Guangxi's Spring Festival tourism.
During the Spring Festival, the topic of "interaction between the north and the south to celebrate the New Year" continues to heat up. During the Spring Festival in Guangxi, the warm climate, rich night tours, night shopping activities and various entertainment performances attract many tourists. The major scenic spots are filled with blooming flowers and exciting activities.
The picture shows a banquet of hundreds of families. Photo by Chen Yongshuang
Nanning Qingxiu Mountain Scenic Area held the New Year Lantern Festival, Spring Festival Flower Exhibition, and Spring Festival Flower Market, receiving 889,600 tourists during the Spring Festival. Fantawild ASEAN Divine Painting held activities such as the Sky Lantern Prayer Ceremony, the Dragon Star River Show, and the New Year Fireworks Show; Guilin City launched a year ago A series of activities have attracted a large number of tourists from all over the country to travel by car to Guilin; Beihai City has a series of fireworks shows, night tours and performances, and the Garden Expo Garden New Year National Trend Garden Art Festival has a lot of fun shows, including drone performances and music fireworks shows. Cool visual effects; Chongzuo City Taiping Ancient City’s national-level night-time culture and tourism consumption cluster, Guangxi’s night tour scenic spot brand Ye Detian and other leading night-time cultural tourism projects were popular among tourists during the Spring Festival. The highest number of tourists in Taiping Ancient City exceeded 53,000 / day, night and day during the Spring Festival holiday reached the highest carrying capacity almost every day.
The picture shows the fireworks show at the Beihai Maritime Silk Road First Port Scenic Area. Photo by Wu Changjie
At the same time, during the Spring Festival, the "Intangible Cultural Heritage Celebrating the New Year" activities are in full swing. Relying on local characteristic resource endowments, various cities in Guangxi have launched cultural and tourism special activities focusing on annual customs, parent-child, and family activities to create a fun and interesting New Year flavor and help Guangxi's cultural tourism The market recovery momentum drives holiday consumption growth.
The 2024 National Spring Festival "Village Gala" and "Spring Comes to Ten Thousand Households" mass cultural main event will be held in Chengyang Bazhai Scenic Area, Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County, Liuzhou City. During the Spring Festival, hundreds of banquets are held every day and the venues are full, attracting nearly 100,000 tourists. The number of visitors increased by 84.19% compared with the same period in 2023; Beihai Silver Beach held the "New Year's Universiade·Happy Dragon" Spring Festival temple fair, with flash mobs, parades, dragon dances, and Internet celebrity dances, "Subject Three" interactions continued; Nanning Binyang County opened the Paolong Starlight Market and Nari Market, and organized the Paolong Festival Hundred Dragons Dance in Binzhou, Binyang New Year Food Competition and other activities; Baise Jingxi City held the New Year Folk Custom Parade, and the folk culture feast attracted numerous visitors. Hundreds of thousands of people watched, and the scene was very lively.
The picture shows the main venue event of the 2024 National Spring Festival "Village Gala" and "Spring Comes to Ten Thousand Households" mass culture - the Zhuang ethnic drum gathering. Photo by Yang Zhongyu
In addition, during the Spring Festival, Guangxi launched the "Visit Guangxi at the beginning of the New Year and celebrate the New Year warmly" Guangxi cultural tourism promotion activity, launched a series of "Visit Guangxi at the beginning of the New Year" themed boutique itineraries, and released 293 items covering folk festivals, art performances, folk sports, and parades The 2024 Guangxi cultural tourism theme activities will include blessings, intangible cultural heritage markets and other contents. At the same time, the Guangxi culture and tourism system will organize more than 200 discounts for tourist attractions in the 2024 New Year. During the 2024 Spring Festival, Guangxi held 3,406 mass cultural activities, with a total of more than 4.78 million people participating in the activities. The activities mainly included village evenings, opera in the countryside, New Year paintings, library activities, etc. (over)