Yunnan sees 16.67 mil trips made in 2021 Spring Festival

A total of 16.67 million trips were made in Yunnan province during the just concluded 2021 Spring Festival holiday, bringing in a tourist income of 10.8 billion yuan.

To meet the needs of those who stayed where they were for the Spring Festival, Yunnan local authorities on culture and tourism rolled out over 1,000 entertaining activities. Yunnan Provincial Museum held the 2021 ox-themed cultural show during the Spring Festival, with over 100 ox-related relics on display. Yunnan Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism launched a promotion for intangible cultural heritages, showcasing online the Bai tie-dye, the Jianshui purple pottery and the Midu festival lanterns. Taking popular websites as the major medium, Pu’er broadcast online 69 quality plays created by counties and district in the city. In the old town of Lijiang, cultural elements were highlighted during the Chinese new year, and the Naxi Baisha fine music and the ancient Dongjing music were played via live streams. In Xishuangbanna, a night market was held near the Lancang River, where tourists could join in the parades of the Lancing-Mekong customs, release lanterns into the river, and experience local heritage shows.

During the week-long holiday, the province also rolled out special tourist products for health and rehabilitation. The products are designed on the basis of locally unique resources in sunshine and forest, and they were favored by residents and tourists alike. In the panda manor in Pu’er, for example, the dawn yoga and forest cycling enriched tourist experiences. Making full use of their hot springs, the cities of Mile and Tengchong offered health spa, recuperation services and hot-spring snacks, drawing in numerous tourists. In Yuanmou County, camping outdoors and picking berries and wild vegetables were loved by visitors. At the CAS Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, the cold-escaping tour and scientific trips made a hit.

Meanwhile, Yunnan localities carried out diverse tourist products and activities that fused cultural elements into tourism, rural tourism in particular. An Ansai drum dance was staged at the ancient Dian wharf on the southern shore of the Dianchi Lake in Jingning District, together with a Luoyang peony show. In the lush bamboo area of Chuxiong’s Lufeng County, rafting and snack tasting were organized on the scenic streams. Newly accessed by train services and expressway, Lincang designed six fine tourist routes on rural tourism to entertain visitors in different ways, including the root-seeking tours for the Yunnan tea brands of Bingdao, Xigui and Dianhong.

Source: Yunnan Tourism & Culture Times; Trans-editing by Wang Shixue