China News Service, Haikou, September 19 (Reporter Wang Ziqian) "This year's epidemic has had a huge impact on Hainan's tourism industry, and the tourism economic situation has declined significantly." Zhou Anwei, chief planner of the Hainan Provincial Department of Tourism, Culture, Radio, Television and Sports, told the media on the 19th, At present, Hainan's tourism industry is facing many difficulties, and the government has taken extraordinary measures to revive it.
Hainan officials held a press conference on the policy interpretation of "Hainan Province's Action Plan for Coordinating Epidemic Prevention and Control and Economic Recovery and Boosting" and "Hainan Province's Special Measures to Stabilize the Economy and Help Enterprises and Relief Development (Version 2.0)", Zhou Anwei introduced the tourism rescue plan .
Tourism, one of Hainan's pillar industries, has been severely affected by the epidemic this year.
According to statistics from the Hainan Provincial Department of Tourism, Culture, Radio, Television and Sports, in the first seven months of this year, the total number of tourists and total tourism revenue in Hainan Province fell by 17.3% and 18.4% respectively compared with the same period of the previous year.
The current round of the epidemic that began in early August brought an abrupt end to the traditional summer tourism season in Hainan, and the tourism industry was completely shut down. The decline in tourism data is expected to further increase.
The reporter learned from the meeting that Hainan has arranged special funds to support 326 scenic spots, hotels, homestays, coconut-level rural tourist spots and travel agencies that have been seriously affected by the epidemic, with a total of 44 million yuan (RMB, the same below).
In the next step, an additional 100 million yuan of funds will be allocated, which will be used for bail-out subsidies to tourism enterprises and the issuance of tourism consumption coupons for tourists, focusing on supporting consumption scenarios such as hotel check-in and attraction tickets, and attracting people from outside the island to enter the island for tourism consumption as soon as possible.
In order to increase financial support for cultural and tourism enterprises, Hainan provincial finance will invest 100 million yuan to set up a risk compensation pool, relying on the provincial government financing guarantee institutions to develop the "Qiong Travel Guarantee Loan" business, leveraging an additional 1 billion yuan in bank loans The quota supports cultural and tourism enterprises.
Zhou Anwei said that in order to restore the popularity of tourism, Hainan will launch tourism promotion activities with the theme of "The epidemic will spread, and see Hainan again" after late October, and plan to organize medical aids to Qiong to travel to Qiong and gather in Hainan. More than 100 tourism promotion activities, such as free trade port, tropical rainforest eco-tour, and roaming season on Hainan Island Ring Road.
He said that Hainan will hold activities such as the "Investment Promotion Conference for Key Projects of Hainan International Tourism and Consumption Center", and will also go to Hong Kong and the Yangtze River Delta region to introduce leading enterprises in the tourism, cultural and sports industry to deploy in Hainan.
Duty-free shopping is a golden sign of tourism consumption in Hainan.
Cheng Yuan, deputy director of the Hainan Provincial Department of Commerce, said that in order to boost tax-free consumption, Hainan will organize outlying island duty-free business entities to launch theme activities, actively carry out publicity and promotion in major tourist sources, and continue to issue outlying island duty-free consumption coupons.
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