China News Service, Guangzhou, February 6 (Reporter Cheng Jingwei) According to a report from the Guangdong Provincial Forestry Bureau on the 6th, the list of the third batch of southern Guangdong forest families in Guangdong Province was recently announced, and 29 units were selected. At present, the number of forest households in Nanyue has increased to 129 in the province.
It is understood that forest family refers to operators who rely on the good forest environment and recreational landscape to integrate culture, folk customs and local specialty products to provide tourists with special catering, accommodation, forest experience, leisure entertainment, and sightseeing vacations. Small-scale business entities that provide services such as
A southern Guangdong forest family located in Foshan. Photo courtesy of Guangdong Provincial Forestry Bureau
According to reports, the Nanyue Forest Homes selected this time are located in 10 cities including Guangzhou, Foshan, Shantou, and Shaoguan. They will further satisfy people's desire to enter and enjoy the forest and promote the development of the province's forest tourism industry. This group of southern Guangdong forest houses make full use of forest ecological resources and local specialty products, integrate forest culture and folk customs, and provide tourists with food, accommodation, entertainment and other services. This batch of forest people also launched "forest + picking", "forest + health care", "forest + sports" and other interesting, experiential and participatory tourism products.
For example, Guangzhou Xiangmishan Ecological Fruit Farm Co., Ltd. uses "one village, one product" fragrant loquats and fragrant grapes as the entry point, and organizes activities such as loquat festival and grape festival to attract tourists for sightseeing; Dongyuan City, Heyuan City County Yunshang Fairy Lake B&B Service Co., Ltd. takes Fairy Lake tea culture as the theme and creates tea tourism projects that include tea garden sightseeing, fitness mountaineering, leisure hiking, smart tea garden experience, parent-child picking tours, nature education, etc., receiving an average of 250 tourists per day. person times.
Nanyue Forest House is located in Heyuan. Photo courtesy of Guangdong Provincial Forestry Bureau
"Assessing Nanyue Forest Family is conducive to improving the management and service levels of operating entities and achieving healthy development. Forest farmers can increase their income and become rich by guarding the mountains and forests." The relevant person in charge of the Guangdong Provincial Forestry Bureau said that entering the characteristics of Nanyue Forest Family Eating local dishes and enjoying the wilderness in the woods have increasingly become the travel fashion of Guangdong people. Nanyue Forest Home highlights the concept of "home", allowing tourists to live well, eat well, and have fun. It promotes the transformation of forest tourism areas from traditional sightseeing to leisure vacation and participation experience, and promotes forest tourism products. upgrade.
Guangdong is rich in forest resources and has unique conditions for developing forest tourism and forest health care industries. At present, the province has also created 100 characteristic forest tourism routes, 100 emerging forest tourism brand destinations, 22 provincial-level forest health and wellness bases, 5 national forest health and wellness bases (pilot), and provincial-level forest health and wellness bases ( pilot) 37. (over)