China News Network Beijing, September 24 (Reporter Yu Lixiao) A total of 3.954 million tourists visited scenic spots in Beijing during the three-day Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, up 4.7% year on year, according to data released by the Beijing Municipal Holiday Office on Monday. The revenue of the scenic spot reached 127 million yuan, an increase of 11.5% year-on-year.
During the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday this year, the major scenic spots in Beijing showed three characteristics: a safe and orderly tourism market, the number of visitors to scenic spots and steady growth of revenue; Travel complaints have fallen sharply; Various districts, scenic spots innovative cultural activities colorful.
Major scenic spots in Beijing enhance tourists' sense of experience and stimulate the tourism consumption market with wonderful activities. Beijing Fang Lifestyle Design Festival opened with the theme of "new lifestyle", integrating experience scenes, creative devices, and AI intelligent life and other innovative content. Jingshan Park specially launched a series of activities titled "Central Axis Color, Cultural Beijing" to spread traditional Chinese culture and create new coordinates for central axis cultural display.
For the first time, Beijing Zoo invited children to make animal mooncakes in its unique "Mid-Autumn Festival in the Zoo" event. Under the guidance of the staff, the children first made the corn flour into a ball, with raisins, black sesame, sunflower seeds, peanuts as filling, and then pressed into pieces of mooncake with the mooncake mold. The mooncakes are identical in appearance to those eaten by humans and must be processed and baked before they can be fed to animals.
According to a staff member of the Beijing Zoo, this year's Mid-Autumn Festival, the zoo will provide mooncakes for five species of animals, including giant pandas, ring-tailed lemurs, African elephants, golden monkeys and two-toed sloths, so that children can learn about the eating habits of animals and encourage them not to throw food at them.
Statistics show that during the three-day Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, historical and cultural scenic spots received 1,222,000 tourists, an increase of 9.7% year on year; Modern entertainment scenic spots received 849,000 tourists, a year-on-year increase of 27.7%; Natural landscape scenic spots received 317,000 tourists, an increase of 2.3% year on year; Museum-type scenic spots received 149,000 tourists, an increase of 19.2% year on year; Urban park attractions received 1.417 million visitors, down 9.4% year on year.
The 10th Beijing Chrysanthemum Cultural Festival is being held in major parks and scenic spots in Beijing. Thousands of varieties and millions of POTS of high-quality chrysanthemums are on display in six exhibition areas across the city. Around the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day, the Temple of Heaven Park, Beihai Park, Taoranting Park and Beijing Botanical Garden will hold chrysanthemum cultural festivals.
The Summer Palace holds the "Yihe Autumn Charm Osmanthus Cultural Festival". During the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day, osmanthus flowers, flower jars and other special plants are displayed. Activities such as chrysanthemums exhibition, ginkgo biloba and colorful leaves appreciation, return of scattered cultural relics exhibition, collection and display of old photos of the 30th anniversary of the opening of Yuanmingyuan Ruins Park were held in Yuanmingyuan. The Beijing Botanical Garden has introduced a series of lectures on botany, zoology, ecology and biological control to popularize scientific knowledge while getting close to nature. Zhongta, Daoxiang Lake View and other promotional entertainment activities and food.
In addition, Pinggu District held the Second China (Beijing) Leisure Conference 2018, which included academic forum, 2018 International Leisure Industry Promotion Expo, leisure fashion carnival, "Leisure Pinggu" government-enterprise dialogue, Pinggu • Farmer Harvest Festival and many other experience activities.
Statistics show that suburban folk tourists received a total of 1.418 million people, with business revenue reaching 122 million yuan. Huairou District received 329,000, Miyun District 241,000 and Fangshan District 144,000. (finish)