Qingdao expects to receive 79.78 million person-time visito

Qingdao expects to receive 79.78 million person-time visitors

2016-04-15 03:54:49 International Daily Web Editor:International Daily

The Qingdao tourism industry reform and innovation mobilization meeting was held on April 5^th.According to the meeting, in 2016, the Qingdao tourism industry will accelerate in upgrade and optimize the market environment to enhance development quality, aiming to build itself into a national tourism industry reform and innovation pilot zone. The city will build itself into an international tourist destination and expect to receive 79.78 million person-time visitors annually and achieve 7% growth rate; it also expected to achieve CNY 143.5 billion consumption revenue with a growth rate of 13%. The number of visitors going to Qingdao or staying over-night in Qingdao is expected to grow consistently.

According to the meeting, in order to build itself into the Key Domestic Regional Service Center, Qingdao tourism industry will put focus on 5 areas to boost the transformation and upgrading in 2016. The first is to develop the coastal area vacation tour, develop and improve both tourist gatherings in east and west part to build high-quality coastal vocation tour destination; the second is to develop marine recreational tour to explore and boost tourist transportation ports and cruiser base system to ensure collective and regulated development of the marine tourism enterprises. The city will introduce new cruiser supporting policy and try to obtain a cruiser tourism development trail zone; the third is to accelerate the development of fusion and innovative tourism, the city will further boost Tourism+ to explore the 2^nd development route of existing social resources such as culture, sports, festival, fishery, marine scientific research to develop cultural tourist products such as historic and folk culture experience, tourism show, and sports and recreational activities such as games watching, sailing experience and recreational sports, and develop festival-related tourism industries; the fourth is to cultivate and develop high quality rural tourism to extend its industry chains to enhance its quality and comprehensive value consistently; the fifth is to develop service-output tourism to build service brand and leading enterprises in service areas such as hotel management, view zone operation, resource integrating, industry extending and regional expansion capacity of large groups and enterprises can be used to enhance its service ability and diameter. (Fu Jun)