Ministry of Culture and Tourism: From October 1 to 4, 2018, the country received 502 million domestic tourists

Based on data reported and provided by local tourism departments, telecommunications operators, and online travel service providers, the China Tourism Academy (Data Center of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism) estimated that from October 1 to 4, the country received 502 million domestic tourists, a year-on-year increase of 8.80%; domestic tourism revenue reached 416.9 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 8.12%.

1. Cultural and tourism activities in various regions are rich and colorful, and the development trend of all-round tourism and high-quality tourism is prominent.

Each province and city has carefully planned tourism activities based on local cultural characteristics, blending natural scenery with folk customs, and enjoying traditional activities with new experiences.

Anhui has performed a series of people-benefiting operas in cities and towns along the Yangtze River and Huai River. Public cultural venues are open to the public free of charge. The Cultural Benefit Consumption Season offers high-quality feasts. The Huangmei Opera Art Festival presents a grand opera festival. Various places and tourism companies in Jiangsu have taken advantage of holiday leisure, self-driving tours, cultural tours, rural tours, folk tours, parent-child tours, and flower-viewing tours. The province's tourism has a prominent "chess game" feature of connecting points across regions into a network. The red education products launched by the Shaoshan Scenic Area in Hunan Province and the ancestral worship cultural products of the Yan Emperor Mausoleum (Shun Emperor Mausoleum) in Yongzhou have attracted tourists. Rural leisure tours such as fruit picking, autumn scenery viewing, farming experience, and rural vacations in Shandong, Guangdong, Fujian, Hubei and other places are popular among tourists, and nearby well-known homestays are full.

2. The construction of the tourism integrity system is progressing steadily, and civilized tourism and honest business operations complement each other.

Before the National Day, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced a batch of uncivilized tourist behavior records, three tourists were included in the "blacklist", and announced the results of the special rectification of the national summer tourism market order and ten typical cases. Civilized tourism and honest management have become the consensus of more and more tourists and tourism operators. Tourism departments in various places have introduced a number of measures to implement the construction of the integrity system and advocate civilized tourism according to local conditions.

Jinan City, Shandong Province established a "City Tourism Guide Volunteer Taxi Team", and the first batch of 100 volunteers became the new business card of Jinan tourism. Jinan Tourism Woodpeckers are on duty at the "Spring City Tourism Woodpecker Work Station" in Baihuazhou and other places, providing free spring water bowls of tea and guide maps for the general public. Huaihua City, Hunan Province, with the theme of "Everyone is a beautiful landscape", hangs civilized tourism public service advertising posters in scenic spots (spots), hotels, travel agencies and other places, and distributes publicity materials such as "Civilized Tourism Guide" and "Civilized Tourism Convention". All 2,000 employees of Yuntaishan Scenic Area in Henan Province practice the "five-in-one" service concept of waiters, safety officers, cleaners, etc., to escort tourists during their holidays. Public toilets in all business premises of Chongdugou Scenic Area are open free of charge, and farmhouse hotels provide free tea services. Village cadres and sightseeing drivers are responsible for traffic diversion work together. All diversion guides wear uniform clothes and provide civilized services.

3. Popular scenic spots have reached their maximum capacity one after another, and local governments have activated peak response mechanisms. The overall order of the tourism market is good.

Four days before the holiday, road traffic pressure in domestic tourist cities increased, and many key scenic spots (spots) were extremely popular and passenger flow reached peak levels. The scenic spots and relevant departments promptly launched measures such as time-slot ticket reservations, multi-route tours, and temporary traffic control on surrounding roads to strengthen the guidance and management of tourists.

Hangzhou, Ningbo and other cities in Zhejiang Province fully utilize the smart monitoring platform and provide tourists with instant query services of real-time passenger flow and comfort index of scenic spots through various channels such as WeChat public accounts. Hangzhou City's "Smart Toilet Finder" APP provides convenience for tourists to find toilets nearby. The Wugong Mountain Scenic Area Management Committee of Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province and the Wuyuan Tourism Department of Shangrao City launched emergency plans to deal with the unexpected surge in tourist reception. They adopted measures such as tourist diversion, suspension of scenic area ticket sales and cableway tickets, closure of some high-speed exits for diversion, organization and activation of temporary parking lots, and free transfer at the second level to maintain the order of sightseeing. They also released relevant information in a timely manner through major media, advocating tourists to arrange their travel itineraries reasonably and travel in staggered periods. From October 1, Hainan Province implemented an online reservation system for crossing the sea for the Haikou Ferry, maximizing the role of cross-strait dispatch, providing clear volume expectations for port and shipping companies to allocate capacity and transport, and alleviating the serious congestion of port roads and surrounding urban roads caused by the disorderly arrival of vehicles at the port during the holiday golden week.

4. Functional departments work closely together to ensure smooth holiday tourism.

During the National Day holiday, snowfall occurred in Zheduo Mountain in Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, resulting in more than 1,000 vehicles stranded on Zheduo Mountain. The Ganzi Prefecture Holiday Command Center activated the emergency plan overnight. Ganzi Prefecture and Kangding City mobilized more than 800 police officers to rush to Zheduo Mountain, and worked with the public security, transportation, fire, emergency, civil affairs, health, food and drug supervision departments to work all night, dispatching rescue vehicles and equipment to melt snow, remove snow piles, guide, rescue, and divert traffic, and do their best to guide the vehicles stranded on Zheduo Mountain. At the same time, emergency supplies such as high-altitude emergency medicines, oxygen, clothes, and a large number of emergency foods were provided to stranded passengers, rescuing more than 4,000 tourists and more than 450 vehicles. Some tourism-related companies spontaneously organized to provide tourists with free rest, heating, hot water and other services. The Tourism Development Committee of Guizhou Province, together with the Traffic Information and Emergency Command Center of Guizhou Province and the Traffic Management Bureau of the Public Security Department of Guizhou Province, jointly issued the 2018 National Day travel service reminder to provide tourists with timely and effective travel information and play a role in diverting and guiding self-driving tours. Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, set up 54 "Smiling Yangzhou" tourism volunteer service points throughout the city, created a 10-minute tourism volunteer service circle in the ancient city, opened 11 internal parking resources of government agencies and institutions for use by vehicles from other places, temporarily added 4 free transfer centers for tourists to park and transfer, and provided tourists with free sightseeing bus rides.

5. Continue to increase market supervision efforts to create a safe, secure and comfortable travel environment for tourists.

Party and government leaders in various places attach great importance to holiday tourism work, and have made arrangements and deployments for holiday tourism work through instructions and meetings. Some local leaders in charge have gone to the front line to inspect and guide. Local cultural, tourism, public security, transportation, scenic spots and other departments have closely cooperated and jointly enforced the law to effectively safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of tourists and create a good tourism environment.

During the National Day holiday, Beijing Vice Mayor Wang Ning led the Municipal Tourism Commission and other departments to conduct unannounced visits and inspections on the holiday tourism market order and safety at key points such as Qianmen West Street, Prince Gong's Mansion, and the Zoo. The Municipal Tourism Commission organized two joint group unannounced inspection teams every day, and the local Changping and Yanqing district-level tourism joint law enforcement teams conducted inspections at the end. As of 15:00 on the afternoon of October 4, all departments and districts in the city had dispatched a total of 11,863 law enforcement personnel and 1,967 vehicles to inspect the tourism market order, 380 tourist buses, 263 tour guides, and 2,864 various tourism and business enterprises. Members of the leadership team of the Hebei Provincial Tourism Commission and heads of relevant departments went to various cities during the National Day holiday to supervise and inspect tourism safety, and organized the tourism commissions (bureaus) of various cities to strictly follow the "double random and one public" requirements to carry out special rectification of the tourism market order during the National Day Golden Week. A total of more than 500 inspectors were dispatched to inspect more than 200 tourism-related enterprises. The leadership team of the Heilongjiang Provincial Tourism Commission led a team to conduct inspections on tourism safety and service quality in key scenic spots (spots) such as Tiger Park and Central Street. The city leaders in charge of tourism in Harbin, Daqing, Heihe, Jiamusi, Hegang and other cities went to the front line to inspect tourism safety and tourism market order.