Self-driving tour can't believe in Ma Youyan

  Our reporter Liu Fawei

  "People's Daily Overseas Edition" (11th edition on November 04, 2021)

  A car can start a journey.

More and more tourists choose to travel by car to spend their vacation time.

  The most beautiful scenery is on the road.

Because the itinerary is relatively free, self-driving tours are favored by many people, but self-driving does not mean that you can trust the horse.

  Hot market

  In the recent National Day holiday, self-driving tours became the main force in the tourism market.

  According to data from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, from October 1st to 7th, 515 million domestic tourists traveled nationwide. Among them, the proportion of tourists who chose to travel by car reached 55.8%, an increase of 10 percentage points from last year.

  According to analysis by industry insiders, people's lifestyles have changed since the epidemic, and self-driving tours with more privacy and safety have become the favorite choice of many tourists.

  "China's Self-driving Cars, Motorhomes and Camping Tourism Development Report (2020-2021)" shows that from the perspective of the age group, the young and middle-aged groups are the main force in self-driving tours, mostly with families as the unit.

From the perspective of gender composition, the ratio of men to women is balanced, with slightly more men than women.

In addition, in the context of the normalization of epidemic prevention and control, the self-driving tour corps is "expanding", and part of the increase is converted from traditional sightseeing tour group tourists, including some middle-aged and elderly groups.

  Xiao Li is an "office worker" in Guangzhou, and often takes advantage of the holidays to travel by car to different places.

"You can arrange your own itinerary, you can also eat the local specialties you want to eat, stay in your favorite hotel, and a few close friends chatting while enjoying the scenery in the same car is a very good way. Travel experience." Xiao Li's words express the aspirations of many people who choose to travel by car.

  Pursuing the quality of tourism, hoping to have more opportunities to get close to nature, many people choose to travel by car because of their love for nature and outdoor tourism.

  Mafengwo's "Self-driving Tour Data Report for 2021" shows that in 2021, the search popularity of "self-driving tour" increased by 137% over the same period of the previous year, and about 70% of users chose "self-driving" as their travel mode.

  Lots of chaos

  In recent years, along with the rising popularity of the self-driving tour market, there have also been some chaos in the self-driving tour.

  There is a calcified beach in Yalonggou in Kangding City of Ganzi, Sichuan. The calcified layer of the calcified beach is very fragile, and the local area expressly prohibits driving in.

However, there are still tourists driving off-road vehicles on the Yalonggou Calcified Beach repeatedly to show off their car skills.

In the images circulated on the Internet, two off-road vehicles drove quickly on a calcified beach with icy belts and drifted around in circles, only to see that the calcified beach was rolled out of tire tracks.

  Some experts said that the Yalonggou calcified beach is a kind of natural and special landform. The formation speed is very slow. The calcium carbonate is crushed into fragments, which is basically irreversible.

  Such beautiful scenery has been trampled on, and there are obvious prohibition signs but turned a blind eye. Prior to this, the vegetation of "Gnie’s Eye" was destroyed by self-driving convoys, and calcified beaches were destroyed by self-driving people. This barbaric self-driving behavior gave the local ecology The environment has caused irreparable losses.

  The Sichuan-Tibet Line is a section of the 318 National Highway, starting from Chengdu and ending at Lhasa, with a total length of more than 2,000 kilometers. It spans the mountainous compression zone of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Hengduan Mountains, and crosses the Dadu River, Jinsha River, Lancang River, Nujiang River and other important waters.

There are rich tourist resources along the way, not only snow-capped mountains, glaciers, grasslands, canyons, lakes, seas of clouds, forests and other natural landscapes, but also many rare wild animals appear. It is a veritable national landscape avenue.

  The unique natural landscape has attracted tourists from all over the country to drive on the Sichuan-Tibet line.

There are more and more tourists, and rubbish is "increasing."

  When a tourist was driving through the Mangkang and Basu sections of the Sichuan-Tibet line on their own, they saw many local people and volunteers on the roadside picking up garbage along the roadside with their pockets.

Most of this garbage is discarded by vehicles and tourists on the Sichuan-Tibet line. During the self-driving tour, good-quality tourists put the garbage in the car, and then find the trash can to throw it away when they arrive at the resting place. However, some tourists lack environmental awareness and directly discard the garbage. The garbage in the car was thrown out the window.

  In addition to destroying the environment, there are also many safety hazards in irregular self-driving tours.

  In Haixi Mongolian-Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, the Internet celebrity took pictures and punched on the "U-shaped highway". Since August last year, the traffic police department of Golmud has set up multiple warning signs at this location, but in private cars Under the leadership of the "black car", some tourists are still taking pictures here, which poses a huge safety hazard.

  Not only that, on short video platforms such as Douyin and Kuaishou, there are also some bloggers who are driving while recording videos, and they also need to explain the scenery on the road by driving, which is really a sweat.

  Need to be regulated

  To control the chaos of self-driving tours, the key is to have rules and regulations.

  The chaos of self-driving tours is inseparable from the explosive growth of self-driving tours and the spontaneous and disorderly development of the industry.

Therefore, it is necessary and urgent to establish rules for self-driving tours. Only relying on the matching of market supply and demand and industry competition cannot promote self-regulation. The basic laws of the market must be followed, and legal and administrative means must be used to cultivate, guide and regulate.

  In fact, as early as July 2015, the National Tourism Administration approved the "Guidelines for the Management of Self-Driving Tour Services". The content is very detailed, involving nine major aspects such as self-driving tour service organization, safety management and insurance protection, but this is only an industry standard, not Administrative regulations are very ineffective.

  “The self-driving tour is very popular now, but there are still relatively few organizations and institutions that can provide corresponding professional services. From the results, the route designed by the enthusiasts is actually no different from the regular bus tour." Self-driving in Gansu Province Hu Xiaohong, president of the Tourism Association, said, “The existing self-driving tours in the market are mostly the same, and there are very few that can really dig into the food, folk culture and ethnic characteristics of various places.”

  Therefore, if more comprehensive self-driving tour routes can be introduced and the operation level of the routes can be improved, it is believed that there will be much less chaos in self-driving tours.

  For tourists, we must always maintain awe of nature.

Self-driving travel is fundamentally a form of tourism, and tourism is originally a way to experience the customs of different regions. Only by protecting the plants and trees of the travel destination can we make civilized tourism go further and let our own The journey goes further.

  Some scenic spots where the local ecology is already very fragile should be closed, especially not to leave the opportunity for self-driving tourists to enter the fragile ecological zone by luck.

In this regard, we might as well learn from the scenic spots of Bird Island and Sand Island in Qinghai Lake, Zhaling Lake, Eling Lake and Xingxing Sea Nature Reserve Zone in the Three Rivers Source National Park, Tiantangzhai in Luotian County, Hubei Province and other scenic spots, dare to control the number of tourists, even Hang out the "Thanksgiving Order" to allow the ecological environment to "have a holiday" to achieve recuperation.