(Service Trade Fair 2020) Deputy Mayor of Wuhan: Wuhan, China has been "resurrected with blood"
China News Service, Beijing, September 5 (Reporter Wang Qingkai) Chen Honghui, a representative of member cities of the World Tourism Cities Federation and deputy mayor of Wuhan, Hubei Province, will be held on the 5th during the 2020 China International Trade in Services Fair. The development conference stated that due to the impact of the epidemic, Wuhan’s tourism industry entered a “sleep period” by pressing the “pause button” at the beginning of this year.
At present, Wuhan's tourism industry is recovering and revitalizing, and the city's tourism economy has achieved a "triple jump" from "moving up" to "warming up" to "increasing on fire".
Wuhan has been "resurrected with blood."
Wuhan is a central city in the central region of China, rich in mountains and water resources and profound cultural heritage. It is an excellent tourist city in China and a model city for tourism and leisure in China. In recent years, the tourism industry has shown a vigorous development trend.
Chen Honghui said that on August 8th, Wuhan launched the "Huiyou Hubei·Check-in in Wuhan" activity. It is planned that from August to December this year, 23 paid A-level scenic spots in the city will be open to tourists from all over the country for free reservations.
Official data show that in the past month, the city's overall average daily tourist reception has increased by 34% over the same period last year, and the overall occupancy rate of star-rated hotels has increased by 13 percentage points over the same period last year.
The number of foreign tourists to Wuhan has increased significantly, and tourists from outside the province and inside and outside the province and cities accounted for 44.9%, which has strongly driven the recovery and development of related service industries.
According to the monitoring data of Ctrip's travel platform, in August, the number of hotel stays in Wuhan increased by 36% from the previous month, hotel revenue increased by 40%, the number of people booked to Wuhan increased by 29%, and the revenue from air tickets increased by 30%.
In May of this year, Wuhan launched a nucleic acid testing conference in the city. A total of tens of millions of people were tested and no confirmed case was found. 130,000 samples were tested in public environments, and the results were all negative.
Chen Honghui believes that Wuhan's tourism recovery practice is highly compatible with the theme of this "World Tourism Cooperation and Development Conference" "Restart Tourism and Create Prosperity", and it also provides a wonderful sample for the recovery and development of the world tourism industry under the background of the new crown pneumonia epidemic.
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