China News Service, Beijing, April 6 (Xu Jing) According to data released by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism on the 5th, from April 3 to April 5, the 185 tourist attractions (regions) monitored by Beijing have received a total of 554.6 tourists. 10,000 person-times, recovered to 90% of the same period in 2019.

Beijing citizens are very enthusiastic about enjoying spring outings. Among the top ten scenic spots (regions) in the city in terms of tourist reception, more than half of them are natural landscapes and scenic spots; during the "post-Winter Olympics" period, the Olympic Forest Park and other Winter Olympic landmarks are very popular among citizens. .

Tourist reception returns to 90% of 2019 levels

　　From April 3 to 5, the 185 tourist attractions (regions) under monitoring in Beijing received a total of 5.546 million tourists, a year-on-year decrease of 8.9%, an increase of 3.6 times over 2020, and a recovery to 90% of the same period in 2019; The total revenue was 283.653 million yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 2.3%, an increase of 9.1 times over 2020, and an increase of 6.2% over 2019.

　　The top ten scenic spots (regions) in terms of tourist reception are: Olympic Forest Park 396,000, Nanluoguxiang 375,000, Wangfujing 360,000, Yuyuantan Park 233,000, Summer Palace 161,000, Chaoyang Park 161,000, The Temple of Heaven Park has 150,000 people, COFCO·Xiangyun Town has 148,000 people, Beihai Park has 146,000 people, and Leduogang Holiday Plaza has 145,000 people.

In addition, Universal Beijing Resort received 30,500 people.

Children play with bubble guns in Beijing Taoranting Park on April 4.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Tian Yuhao

More than 900 cultural activities are rich and diverse

　　From April 3 to 5, Beijing organized a total of 805 public cultural activities and 915 events, involving 3.8798 million people.

The city has carried out a series of key cultural activities to enrich the cultural life of citizens.

　　The Capital Library invited scholars to give an online lecture on "Talking about Nongsang during the Qingming Festival"; the Municipal Cultural Center held an "Online Sacrifice to Heroes and Martyrs" activity. Citizens can offer flowers, toasts, and incense to the martyrs online to pay their respects to the heroes and martyrs; Dongcheng District Held the "Pear Blossoms and Qingming" classic poetry reading meeting, Changping District, Daxing District, Huairou District, Miyun District also held themed reading activities.

　　In addition, Xicheng District held a cultural exhibition on the theme of Qingming Festival; Chaoyang District, Haidian District, and Fengtai District held a series of themed cultural activities around the traditional customs of Qingming Festival; Shijingshan District held the 2022 Qingming Festival Wing Huai Art Show; Mentougou District held the second Qingming Poetry Recitation Fangshan District held a kite-making parent-child experience activity; Tongzhou District held a Huangmei opera "Liang Zhu" exhibition and broadcast; Shunyi District held a national theme concert; Daxing District held a National Qingming Poetry, Calligraphy and Painting Creation Exhibition; Yanqing District held a Qingming Festival knowledge quiz.

More than 360 performances to meet holiday needs

　　From April 3 to 5, Beijing held a total of 362 commercial performances on 104 sets, with a year-on-year increase of 56%.

　　During the holidays, Beijing Peking Opera Theatre staged classic plays such as "The Lady General of the Yang Family", "The Peacock Flying South East", "Pearl Curtain Village" and "Mandarin Duck Tomb" at Chang'an Grand Theater and Jixiang Grand Theater respectively; Bao Qingtian" "Everyone is Happy".

The Beijing Qu Opera Troupe performed the immersive Beijing Qu Opera "Tea House" in the Taihu Performing Arts Workshop in Tongzhou District, showing the singing style and performance characteristics of traditional opera.

　　In terms of drama performances, Beijing People's Art Theater staged "Thunderstorm" on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the academy. Happy Twist brought comedies such as "Seven Square Meters" and "The Earl of Wulong Mountain"; Meng Jinghui Drama Studio's "Opinions on the Life of Two Dogs" , Fanxing Drama Village's "Travel That Goes When You Say It", etc. are all loved and sought after by the vast audience.

　　Natural landscapes and Winter Olympic landmarks are popular

　　During the Qingming holiday this year, citizens are enthusiastic about enjoying the spring outing.

The weather is fine during the holiday, and outings, flower viewing, reminiscence, leisure, and well-being have become the main purposes of citizens' travel.

　　Before the festival, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism released 16 "Walking Beijing-Qingming Shanghe Walking Tour Theme Routes", allowing citizens to use the river systems covering all districts of Beijing as a link, and feel the spring charm of the capital with their footsteps.

Compared with the Spring Festival, among the top ten scenic spots (regions) in the city's tourist reception, natural landscapes and scenic spots occupy half of the country, and Yuyuantan, the Summer Palace, and the Temple of Heaven are among the top ten in terms of reception. A wide range of Winter Olympic landmarks such as Orson Park are very popular with the public.

　　During the Qingming Festival in Beijing, the number of tourists and operating income of rural tourism increased for three consecutive years.

"Micro-travel" has become the first choice for citizens to travel, and the average occupancy rate of hotels in the outer suburbs is over 50%.

The search popularity of boutique B&Bs, parent-child hotels, pet hotels, etc. has increased significantly.

During the holiday period, there were nearly 10,000 B&B rooms operated by the city's villages, with an average occupancy rate of over 70%.

　　Cultural consumption has become the mainstream of holiday consumption.

During the Tomb-sweeping Day holiday, the city organized 805 and 915 various public cultural activities combining online and offline, attracting 3.88 million people to participate. 104 sets of 362 commercial performances increased by 56% year-on-year, which better met the multi-level, diversified, personalized and high-quality cultural and artistic needs of citizens during holidays.

Beijing will not resume inter-provincial team travel in and out of Beijing for the time being

　　During the Qingming Festival, Beijing will not resume inter-provincial team travel and "air ticket + hotel" business in and out of Beijing for the time being, and continue to suspend entry and exit team travel and "air ticket + hotel" business.

The catering service provided by the cultural and tourism venues strictly implements the guidelines for prevention and control of catering venues, as well as food hygiene and public health regulations, and strictly prevents norovirus infection and ensures the hygiene and safety of food and catering.

　　Beijing's cultural tourism industry strictly implements the latest version of the epidemic prevention and control guidelines for hotels, country houses, scenic spots, travel agencies, performance venues, entertainment venues, Internet service venues, libraries, cultural centers, etc. Travel venues make reservations according to 75% current limit, strictly implement temperature measurement, code scanning and code verification, wearing masks (standard wearing masks in cars, indoor and outdoor crowded places), maintaining social distance, frequent ventilation, frequent cleaning and disinfection, regular A series of normalized and precise prevention and control measures such as nucleic acid detection and screening, full-course vaccine and enhanced immunization, establishment of temporary isolation observation rooms (places), and preparation of epidemic prevention materials.

　　During the Qingming Festival, the two-level cultural and tourism departments in Beijing focused on epidemic prevention and control, large crowd gatherings, large-scale amusement facilities, high-risk tourism projects, special equipment, fire, electricity and gas, scenic forest fire prevention, cultural and entertainment venues, and cultural tourism venues. A total of 1,127 inspectors were dispatched for food and catering hygiene, and conducted safety supervision and inspection of 1,537 cultural and tourism venues; the Municipal Cultural and Tourism Bureau sent 1,586,700 short messages of epidemic prevention and control reminders to all foreigners who came to Beijing through the three major telecom operators.

　　During the Qingming Festival in 2022, Beijing's cultural tourism market will be generally safe, stable and orderly.

Beijing has made every effort to promote the normalized epidemic prevention and control and safety service guarantee for Qingming holiday tourism, and achieved no sudden epidemics involving cultural tourism and no production accidents involving cultural tourism.

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