2.53 million tourists visited Chenzhou during this period

According to the record, during the “golden week”, more than 2.53 million tourists visited Chenzhou city, up 32.27%. The tourism income was amounted to 1.146 billion yuan, up 38.42%. Renting rate for the star level hotels was about 97.48%. 14290 tourists were from abroad, up 9%.

Self-service travel was hot compared with the team tour

Due to the new “Tourism Law”implemented on this October 1, some of the travel agencies in Chenzhou city issued less travel lines during this holiday to make sure they can meet the demands of the new law well. On the other hand, some of the travel lines were with higher price than last year. Because of the two reasons mentioned above, less tourists chose to attend the team tour compared with last year.

More families and young people preferred the self-service travel. Thanks to the free policy of expressway during this holiday, more self-driving tourists from Guangdong province, Hong Kong and other provinces nearby gathered to visit Chenzhou city. According to the data, 70% visitors of Dongjiang lake, Mangshan mountain, Wanhuayan and some other landscapes of Chenzhou city were self-service travel style.

New highlight- mining tourism

2013 China Chenzhou International Leisure Tourism and Culture Festival was held successfully in Guiyang county in September. Baoshan Mining Park was opened to public during this festival. Many tourists were attracted there to spend their National Day holiday and enjoy the charm of mining. The world’s largest bronze coin sculpture, museum, and mini-train were the best attractive ones for the tourists. It was reported that more than 50,000 people visited Baoshan mining landscape during this “golden week”.

Health tourism made a“blowout”

It was learned that hot spring spa was one of the key tourism items for the travelers came to Chenzhou city. Rucheng county, Yizhang county, Zixing city, Beihu district and some other places of Chenzhou city were with gorgeous hot spring resources. It was reported that Mangshan Forest Hot Spring Hotel and Rucheng Fuquan Villa were with no vacancy from Oct. 1 to 7 for all were booked out before the holiday. 72,000 tourists were accepted in the two hotels and Longnv Hot Spring Hotel during this holiday.

Besides the hot spring, mountain climbing was another favorite travel style for the people. It was learned that 100,000 tourists were received by Suxianling landscape, most of whom were knee for mountain climbing.

Leisure farm travel

Many citizens of Chenzhou city chose short term travel during this holiday. Rural areas especially some leisure farm travel destinations became the citizens’ favorite choices. It was reported that Xiaobu, Huangcao, Wangxianling, and Beach Park received 12,000 travelers separately on just one day during the peak time.

Tourism was promoted well by handling the tourism festival and other activities

2013 China Chenzhou International Leisure Tourism and Culture Festival was held in Chenzhou city from September 16 to 29. Many different tourism activities and cultural communications were handled out in the counties of Chenzhou city accordingly. Those kinds of activities greatly helped to promote the tourism industry. Baoshan Mining Park and Jiulongjiang National Forest Park which were opened to public during this tourism festival attracted many tourists and became the new highlights of Chenzhou tourism industry. Besides that, ancient hinny track was gathered with many hiking fans during this holiday after holding the hiking activity during the festival.