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Tourists enjoy coolness in Guidong County

2023-08-11

Guidong County held a live streaming event to promote the regional public brands and yellow peaches on August 8. The sweet and crunchy yellow peaches attracted many tourists and citizens to taste and buy. 

 

A tourist from Foshan immediately bought 3 boxes. Zhang Haiqiang, general manager of Guangdong Zhaiyun Delivery Guidong Branch, revealed that the two anchors sold more than 1,000 boxes in half an hour.
 
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“This year’s summer trip to Guidong is very popular,” said an official of Guidong County Bureau of Culture, Tourism and Sports. There are nearly 800 hotels in the county, with nearly 20,000 beds, but it is still difficult to book a room. Since the summer vacation, the county received more than 20,000 tourists daily.
 
According to Guidong County Meteorological Bureau, the average temperature in summer is 23.7 degrees Celsius, about 8 degrees Celsius lower than that in Changsha City. There is no scorching heat in summer and no severe cold in winter, and the number of days when the human body feels the most comfortable is 88.1 days, and the relatively comfortable days are 100.7 days, both ranking first among all counties and cities in the province.
 
The 2023 Guidong Health Oxygen Summer Festival kicked off on July 27, with 100,000 online vouchers issued. Tourists can log into the Guidong Homestay Inns mini program and obtain the vouchers, which can be deducted when dining and shopping.
 
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Guidong County was awarded the “Charming County of Deep Breath Eco-Tourism” in China together with Miyun District of Beijing City and Jiuzhaigou County of Sichuan Province due to its biodiversity and rich resources on July 29.
 
An official of Guidong County Bureau of Culture, Tourism, Radio and Sports said that Guidong, taking the second Hunan Provincial Tourism Development Conference as an opportunity, has fully taped into its green, cool and oxygen resources, and successively held such events as Sparrow Festival, Peach Blossom Festival, Yellow Peach Festival and Alpine Summer Festival, and created “Shatian-Zhaiqian-Qingzhu” and other high-quality tourism routes.
 
Guidong County has also vigorously developed wellness tourism and homestay inn industries, and made every effort to build a national-level leisure resort. The county has implemented 9 key cultural tourism projects this year, with a total investment of 2.813 billion yuan. In the first half of the year, the county received a total of 1.5109 million tourists, with a total tourism income of 1.68 billion yuan.