During the holiday in Tomb-Sweeping Day, it’s spring March, and everything is recovering, so it’s very suitable for an outing. All over the country have launched various kinds of tourism projects, such as going for a walk, enjoying flowers, folk festivals, studying tours, remembering martyrs, etc., together with effective security, active civilized guidance, and rich measures to benefit the people, which have jointly ensured the prosperity and order of the holiday market.
Cultural activities are splendid.
Before Tomb-Sweeping Day, the General Office of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism issued the Notice on Doing a Good Job in the Holiday Market of Tomb-Sweeping Day, Labor Day and Dragon Boat Festival in 2019, requiring all localities to enrich the supply of holiday products, optimize public tourism services, and ensure that tourists spend happy and peaceful holidays.
During the holidays in Tomb-Sweeping Day, various places actively followed the public’s enthusiasm for traveling, and launched a variety of activities. The tourism market showed a prosperous scene. During the holiday, Taizhou City, Jiangsu Province held the 11th China Taizhou Shuicheng Watertown International Tourism Festival, and held more than 60 festivals such as Qintong Boat Festival and the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Navy, focusing on opera culture, folk culture, intangible culture and red culture. All kinds of activities have also been launched in major tourist areas in Jiangsu, such as the first “Hanfu Treading Youth Garden Party” in Nanjing Hoonji Ruins Scenic Spot, the activities of trying on Chu clothes and handling Chu people’s certificates in Suqian Xiangwang Hometown Scenic Spot, and the “Dinosaur Science University Hall” in Changzhou China Dinosaur Park.
During the holiday, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province organized and coordinated the major scenic spots in the city, and launched a wonderful tourism activity with the theme of “beautiful countryside, Happy Parent-child”. For example, the “All-Happiness Tour, All-Happiness Tour” in Yuezhou Village, Yongtai, beautiful countryside Tourism Season in 2019, exhibited the most representative rural food, rural cultural and creative products, rural agricultural and sideline products, village houses, rural play routes, etc. in 12 counties (cities) in Fuzhou; The March 3rd Festival in Liantianzhu Village attracts tourists to taste the She cuisine and watch the She performances. The most beautiful overseas Chinese activities in Changle Maofeng Farm allow visitors to participate in parent-child picking and animal paradise.
This year’s holiday in Tomb-Sweeping Day overlaps with Jiangxi’s cultural and tourism consumption month. Many local scenic spots and homestay inns offer half-price concessions to tourists, which greatly stimulates the enthusiasm of tourists. All indicators of 36 key scenic spots are red, and flower viewing tour has become the main choice for travel. Among them, Wuyuan Rape Flower Sea is one of the main tourist destinations, and the participation of low-altitude tourist projects such as helicopters and paragliders has boosted the popularity of the scenic spot. As of press time, the scenic spot has received more than 50,000 tourists during the Qingming holiday.
During the festival of Taierzhuang Ancient City in Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province, a series of activities with the theme of “Feeling Qingming, Farewell to Love” were held, and the inauguration ceremony of the bronze statue of Liu Shouwen, the heroine of the Anti-Japanese War, was held. More than 500 tourists, students and local citizens from all over the country participated in the series of commemorative activities; Mengshan Scenic Spot in Linyi City held Hanfu parade ceremony, Hanfu show, Hanfu wedding show and other activities. More than 1,000 Hanfu lovers and 4,000 tourists from the province participated in the activities.
Strengthen supervision to ensure safety
On the eve of Tomb-Sweeping Day, the General Office of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism issued the Notice on Further Improving Tourism Safety, requiring all localities to strengthen organizational leadership and implement safety supervision responsibilities; Focusing on key links, carry out in-depth investigation and rectification; Strengthen the early warning release, and do a good job in publicity and education guidance; Strictly on duty to improve the level of emergency response.
In order to ensure the safety of holiday tourism and build a solid security for tourists, local authorities have taken active measures. On April 4th, Qinghai Province held a provincial work conference on safety production and service quality improvement of culture and tourism. At the conference, it was proposed to strengthen safety supervision and inspection of culture and tourism market and standardize and rectify market order, focus on rectifying chartered tourist cars, strengthen safety supervision of high-risk tourism projects, strengthen traffic control in scenic spots, strengthen safety management of entertainment places and Internet service places, and improve the quality of tourism services in the province.
The Department of Culture and Tourism of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region deployed and carried out safety production inspection before the holiday, and joined relevant departments to carry out safety production inspection on the fire protection, food hygiene and special equipment of A-level tourist attractions and star-rated tourist hotels, especially to increase the control of tourist chartered cars and high-risk tourism projects (rafting speedboats, low-altitude flights, riding camels and cross-country in desert, etc.).
As an important ancestral home of Taiwan compatriots in Fujian, a large number of Taiwan compatriots returned home to worship their ancestors and play during Tomb-Sweeping Day. In order to ensure the smooth customs clearance of returning Taiwan compatriots, Fujian Maritime Safety Administration dispatched more than 30 law enforcement boats and more than 130 law enforcement officers to carry out on-site safety supervision at ferries in its jurisdiction. On the eve of the holiday, Zhang Guoliang, deputy director of Xiamen Culture and Tourism Bureau, led a team to Hulishan Fort, Tianyuan Hotel and other tourism enterprises and institutions to inspect the safety production in the tourism market, and checked the safety management accounts of fire control, food hygiene and other facilities and equipment operation and maintenance.
Kang Lifeng, deputy director of Xi ‘an Culture and Tourism Bureau, also led a team to Qinling Wildlife Park Scenic Spot and Cuihua Mountain Scenic Spot to carry out safety inspection on the eve of the festival. On the spot, he inspected the intelligent monitoring command center, emergency rescue alarm device, safe passage and emergency rescue measures in the beast area, and the implementation of forest fire safety, etc., and randomly checked the construction and operation of smart toilets in scenic spots. In view of the peak of Qingming tourism, special emphasis was placed on strengthening emergency watch and inspection.
On the eve of Tomb-Sweeping Day, Zhou Weizhong, member of the Standing Committee of liyang city City, Jiangsu Province and executive deputy mayor, led the responsible persons of liyang city Municipal Bureau of Culture, Sports, Radio, Television and Tourism, focusing on the inspection of entertainment places, tourist attractions, cruise facilities, hotels, etc. Suqian Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film and Television and Tourism, together with the members of the Municipal Tourism Safety Committee, formed a joint unannounced inspection team, and carried out unannounced visits to the safety production in the tourism industry.
Actively guide civilized travel.
As early as on the eve of Tomb-Sweeping Day, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism issued a reminder, and issued the initiative of “Walking with us in safety and civilization when the spring is bright”. At the same time, it reminded tourists to make preparations before the trip, pay attention to traffic safety, prevent common epidemics, be alert to fire risks, and travel politely.
Around Tomb-Sweeping Day, many active and effective civilized tourism guides have been carried out. During the holidays, all parks in Beijing increased patrol density, and the security forces of parks, guides of public civilization in the capital, social volunteers and law enforcement forces of urban management actively participated. On April 5th, the Summer Palace in Beijing launched the Tomb-Sweeping Day cultural activity of “Civilized Walking for a Healthy Life”, and issued the initiative of “Rejecting Noise and Protecting Heritage in a Harmonious Garden” to tourists.
On the eve of the holiday, Xiamen Tourism Quality Supervision Institute issued tourism consumption tips to remind tourists to travel at the wrong peak and travel in a civilized way. Remind tourists to pay attention to the traffic operation of tourist destinations and the travel warning tips of scenic spots before traveling, and adjust the itinerary in time to avoid traveling together; Obey traffic rules, drive in a civilized way and travel in a civilized way; Respect the local folk culture, and look forward to more luxuriant branches, more fragrant flowers, more beautiful scenery and more fun next year.
Sichuan Province launched the 2019 Sichuan Civilized Tourism Little Guardian series of public welfare activities, and established the vanguard of Sichuan Civilized Tourism Beauty Convention Little Guardian. During the period of Tomb-Sweeping Day, Vanguard organized volunteers to carry out civilized tourism propaganda activities in various forms, such as preaching civilized tourism and picking up garbage in scenic parks.
The official WeChat of Suzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism launched the “Holiday Special Report” to provide tourists with the actual situation of major scenic spots in Suzhou, as well as the comfort of scenic spots, complaints and reports, traffic index, etc., and guide tourists to travel in a civilized way; During the 2019 Qintong Boat Festival in Jiangyan, China, Qinhu Tourism Resort in Taizhou City set up consumer rights service stations and volunteer service desks to create a civilized and orderly tourism environment.
With the rise of temperature, the popularity of tourism in various places has gradually climbed. Taking the Tomb-Sweeping Day holiday as an opportunity, various places have further increased the supply of tourism products, increased the security of tourism, and strengthened the propaganda and guidance of civilized tourism, so as to better meet the increasing travel demand of tourists.