China News Service, Nanjing, April 7 (Xu Shanshan) According to news from the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism on the 7th, during the Tomb Sweeping Day in 2024, there will be 634 A-level tourist attractions and 195 provincial-level and above rural tourism key points included in the monitoring in Jiangsu Province. The village received a total of 16.2387 million tourists, and the total tourist consumption reached 7.267 billion yuan.
During this year’s Tomb Sweeping Day holiday, folk culture and flower viewing and outings lead the travel trend. Short-distance travel, peripheral travel and local travel are popular. The "Spring Economy" is very popular, and many scenic spots are very popular.
There is a Qingming Festival every year, and a memorial day every year. Red tourism is heating up again during the Qingming Festival. Many young students and tourism groups go to Nanjing Yuhuatai Martyrs Memorial Hall, Yancheng New Fourth Army Memorial Hall, Memorial Hall of the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders and other places to commemorate the martyrs and remember history.
Entering April, the "limited edition" spring scenery across Jiangsu attracts tourists from all over the country. Flower-viewing tours continue to be popular. "Flowers as festivals" and "flowers as matchmakers" promote the development of urban leisure and rural tourism. The number of searches for flower viewing spots in many places in Jiangsu has doubled, such as the Dutch Flower Sea in Dafeng, Yancheng, and the cherry blossoms in Yuantouzhu, Wuxi.
During the holidays, various regions in Jiangsu launched various activities to promote cultural tourism consumption and measures to benefit the people, innovatively created new scenarios for the integration of cultural tourism consumption, promoted the upgrading of cultural tourism industry products, promoted the improvement and expansion of cultural tourism consumption, and stimulated the potential of cultural tourism consumption.
Data shows that Nanjing Confucius Temple-Qinhuai Scenic Area, Nanjing Zhongshan Scenic Area-Zhongshan Cemetery Scenic Area, Suzhou Jinji Lake, Yangzhou Slender West Lake and other outdoor scenic spots receive more than 100,000 tourists per day.
According to UnionPay business data, from April 4 to 5, Jiangsu province’s cultural tourism consumption was 4.248 billion yuan, accounting for 35.6% of the province’s total UnionPay consumption, with an average daily growth of 71.3% year-on-year, accounting for 10.9% of the country’s total cultural tourism consumption. %, ranking first in the country. (over)