China News Service, Wuhan, March 15 (Wu Yili) "On March 6, the first Thai tourist charter group of 120 people came to Hubei to visit the East Lake Cherry Garden, Yellow Crane Tower, Hubei Provincial Museum and other attractions." At a press conference held by the Hubei Provincial Government Information Office on the 15th, Tang Changhua, deputy director of the Hubei Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, invited tourists from all over the world to attend the "Sakura Date".

On March 15, early cherry blossoms bloomed at Wuhan University.

Photo by China News Service reporter Zou Hao

  Tang Changhua introduced that the 2024 "Meet in Spring Cherry Blossom Viewing" and Hubei's most beautiful flower viewing season cultural tourism series hosted by the Hubei Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism will be launched in Wuhan on March 20.

Since 2021, Hubei has held a series of activities called "Meet in Spring to View Cherry Blossoms" for many years.

  Currently, the meteorological department has "officially announced" that spring has arrived in Hubei.

On the 15th, reporters saw early cherry blossoms blooming in Wuhan Shahu Park, Wuhan University and other places.

According to reports, around the cherry blossom IP, 17 cities, states (forest areas) in Hubei have prepared more than 220 activities to sincerely welcome tourists from all over the world to Hubei.

  Among them, Wuhan has launched "Ten Main Lines for Spring Tours in Wuhan"; Wuhan University will implement free, reservation and quota management measures, and appropriately increase the daily number of people entering the campus; East Lake Cherry Garden has launched the "Aerial Cherry Blossom Viewing" experience, introducing unmanned driving for the first time Manned aircraft set up an aerial flower viewing plank.

Xiangyang City will carry out the "Flowers in Xiangyang" series of activities, and Jingzhou City will carry out the "Meet Flowers and Treasure Hunting in Jingcheng" activities.

  Riding on the boom of "flower viewing tours", Hubei will also introduce incentives for "attracting tourists to Hubei" this year to reward travel agencies that have made outstanding achievements in attracting tourists from outside the province and overseas tourists to travel to Hubei.

"It is imperative to speed up the resumption of inbound tourism, and we will pay special attention to the development of the inbound tourism market by travel agencies." Tang Changhua said.

  Using cherry blossoms as a matchmaker, Hubei will hold the 2024 "Meet the Spring Cherry Blossoms" economic and trade negotiation and Fortune 500 Dialogue Hubei event from March 20th to 22nd.

Currently, guests from 26 countries and regions have confirmed their participation.

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