Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 22 (Reporter Zhang Manzi) Where is the hottest Mid-Autumn Festival this year?
According to data from multiple tourism platforms, Beijing Universal Resort, which officially opened the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, topped the list.
On September 20, when the Beijing Universal Resort opened, the temperature in Beijing was slightly cool, and it was raining lightly, but it did not stop the enthusiasm of tourists.
In order to save time for shopping in the theme park, many tourists rush to buy souvenirs such as Minions and Harry Potter before entering the park.
Many foreign tourists arrived near the entrance of the park early in the morning, hoping to be the first group of tourists to enter the park on the opening day.
The "2021 Mid-Autumn Holiday Travel Report" released by Tongcheng Travel shows that during the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, the number of reservations for short-distance travel products in the surrounding area increased by 46% compared with 2019. Among them, Universal Beijing Resort ranked first in the 2021 Mid-Autumn Festival popular surrounding scenic spots, and Beijing surpassed Shanghai and Guangzhou. , Nanjing and Hangzhou have become the most popular destination cities for hotel accommodation during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
According to Qunar.com data, among the tourists who bought tickets for the first month of the opening of Universal Studios Beijing, about 60% of tourists purchased tickets from other places.
Lin Huanjie, director of the China Theme Park Research Institute, said that the opening of the Beijing Universal Resort will form a "magnet effect", which will significantly boost the upstream and downstream tourism industry of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and accelerate the promotion of Beijing’s transportation, hotels, retail, catering, and commerce. Fields, multi-stage consumption.
The research report of CITIC Construction Investment predicts that the annual number of visitors to Beijing Universal Studios will be 15-20 million, and it is expected that the unit price will exceed 1,500 yuan, and the annual turnover will be 25 to 30 billion yuan after maturity.
Dai Bin, president of the China Tourism Research Institute, said that from public data, the Universal Resort alone has 53 billion yuan in supporting investment, which is calculated based on a triple investment multiplier, which drives nearly 200 billion yuan in investment.
Calculated according to historical data of the same type of resorts, each year will generate 4.8% of the regional tourism revenue.