China News Service, September 27th. Li Jian, deputy director of the Marketing Management Department of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, said on the 27th that as of mid-September, 29,694 travel agencies have resumed operations in the country, accounting for 75.72% of the total number of existing travel agencies in the country. Tourism business has recovered to around 40% in the same period last year.
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism held a regular press conference for the third quarter on the 27th to introduce the situation of the resumption of production and resumption of culture and tourism and the culture and tourism market during the National Day Mid-Autumn Festival.
When introducing the resumption of work and production, Li Jian said that the Ministry of Culture and Tourism revised the guidelines on epidemic prevention and control measures for theaters and other cultural operations, travel agencies and enterprises, and orderly resumed intra-provincial travel, inter-provincial travel, and "air ticket + hotel" businesses and various types of services. Cultural business activities.
At present, various tasks are proceeding in an orderly manner, the market development trend is improving, and industry confidence is further boosted.
In the cultural market, offline and online go hand in hand.
As of mid-September, a total of 790 theaters were opened nationwide, accounting for 36.45% of the total.
76,100 Internet service establishments resumed operations, with a resumption rate of 65.15%.
47,600 singing and dancing entertainment venues resumed operations, with a resumption rate of 93.27%; 4,900 amusement and entertainment venues resumed operations, with a resumption rate of 31.78%.
At the same time, the online cultural market bucked the trend and rose.
In the first half of 2020, the operating income of national online performance business units was 42.73 billion yuan, an increase of 34.11% year-on-year; the operating income of online music business units was 8.75 billion yuan, an increase of 18.88% year-on-year.
In the tourism market, inter-provincial tourism and intra-provincial tourism are simultaneously developing.
As of mid-September, 29,694 travel agencies have resumed operations in the country, accounting for 75.72% of the total number of existing travel agencies in the country. The group travel business has recovered to about 40% in the same period last year; online travel business orders have increased significantly, and the overall business has recovered to the same period last year Around 40%; the recovery of star-rated hotel business has accelerated, with a resumption rate of 91%.
When introducing the work of the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holiday market, Li Jian pointed out that this year's National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival are superimposed and the holiday is as long as eight days, which is a "big benefit" for industry enterprises and a "big test" for management departments.
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism attaches great importance to this and will adopt six measures to coordinate the prevention and control of the epidemic and the holiday market.
One is to strengthen the arrangement and deployment of holiday market work.
Issue the "Notice on Doing a Good Job in the Cultural and Tourism Holiday Markets for the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival in 2020", hold a video and telephone conference on the national cultural and tourism holiday market, and make specific arrangements in advance for the implementation of epidemic prevention and control and holiday market work.
The second is to strengthen coordination and linkage with relevant departments.
During the holidays, we will continue to strengthen the linkage with the public security, transportation, emergency management, health and other departments, cooperate to increase the investigation and rectification of potential safety hazards, and urge tourism enterprises to strictly implement the main responsibility of safety production.
The third is to strengthen supervision and inspection of market order.
Before the holiday, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism will send a working group to conduct inspections on the implementation of holiday markets in various regions; during this period, unannounced visit teams will be organized to conduct open and unannounced visits to local epidemic prevention and control, safety production, and market order, find problems, and promptly supervise rectification. .
The fourth is to strengthen the dynamic monitoring of the industry situation.
Modern technological means such as big data and cloud services will be used to dynamically monitor the operating conditions of online travel companies and travel agencies, to keep abreast of online public opinion information, and to guide the work of the holiday market.
The fifth is to strengthen emergency response to emergencies.
Strictly implement the systems of leading shifts, special personnel on duty at important positions, 24-hour duty on key positions, and accident information reporting systems to handle emergencies and safety accidents in a timely manner.
"In short, we will go all out to do a good job in the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holiday market work to ensure that the people spend a safe, orderly, civilized and peaceful holiday," said Li Jian.