According to Red Star News, on January 24, the third day of the Lunar New Year, Zhangjiajie National Forest Park in Hunan Province received more than 60,000 tourists, the number of visitors hit a new high on a single day. However, some tourists reflected on the Internet, the scenic area did not control the flow of people, resulting in thousands of tourists stranded on the mountain at night. In this regard, the scenic area responded that no tourists stranded. The last tourist should be in the 24th night almost to 9 o'clock down the mountain, the scenic area staff has also been accompanied, and tourists to communicate, pacify tourists.
This year's Spring Festival, the silver-clad Huangshan Mountain also ushered in the peak of passenger flow. January 24, Huangshan Mountain Scenic Area received 34,385 tourists, a record high single-day reception since the 2018 Spring Festival holiday. Some Huangshan tourists reflect being stranded for 5-7 hours. 25, scenic staff responded that the Spring Festival plus snow led to congestion, but are safe to send tourists down the mountain, buy a ticket to the tourists can play normally.
Tourists said the snow was stranded for 7 hours
Scenic area response
January 25, "Huangshan" phrase rushed to the microblogging hot search list.
Screenshot of the hot search
January 24, Anhui Huangshan. Some tourists reflect down the mountain due to heavy traffic, in minus 15 degrees Celsius environment, stranded for five and a half hours.
Internet pictures
Another netizen said that because there were too many people in the scenic area, he or she started descending from 12 o'clock and was stuck until more than 7 o'clock in the evening. There are also netizens said that from the top of the bright to the Yuping cableway, daily 40 minutes of road walking for 7 hours, brought back 4 frostbite.
January 25, according to the nine faction news, the Spring Festival Golden Week crowd is relatively large, the 23rd and 24th successive snow, the mountain does appear to be queuing up, but no tourists are stranded, all tourists have been safely sent down the mountain. Visitors did not exceed the maximum carrying capacity. The staff also said that if tourists feel that the queue is unacceptable, they can choose to refund their tickets and come back to play at other times.
"Five mountains return not to see the mountain, Huangshan return not to see the mountain." This year's Spring Festival, a heavy snow to five hundred miles of Huangshan Mountain put on a silver dress. Huangshan Mountain has returned to the previous lively, beautiful snow attracted a large number of tourists to enjoy the landscape light. According to the official website of the Huangshan Mountain Scenic Area, on January 24, the Huangshan Mountain Scenic Area received 34,385 tourists, a record high single-day reception since 2018 during the Spring Festival holiday.
In addition, on January 24, the Huangshan Mountain Scenic Area announced that the number of reservations for tickets to the Huangshan Mountain Scenic Area on January 25 was full and stopped. Visitors who have not booked tickets are asked to choose other scenic spots near them to visit, or to make reservations online in advance to buy tickets for the Huangshan Scenic Area after January 25th.
In view of the larger flow of passengers, and the Huangshan Mountain Scenic Area Bright Top to Yupinglou Yingkesong direction of the effective tour space is narrow, passenger capacity is small, January 25 morning, Huangshan Mountain Scenic Area re-issued an announcement that the decision to start at about 2:00 p.m. on the 25th in the Bright Top to the implementation of interception of diversion of control measures, the majority of tourists to consciously obey the management of the scenic area, to adjust the tour routes, do not choose from the top of the Bright to the Yupinglou Welcome Pine direction down the mountain. Suggested to the Beihai scenic area after the tour change to take the Yungu cableway down the mountain.
Screenshot of the notice
Many people are trapped on the mountain at night?
Tourists questioned the failure to control the flow of people, the scenic area responded
"The Spring Festival tourism people can be understood, but like this, it is obvious that the scenic area did not control the flow of people, resulting in thousands of tourists trapped on the mountain at night." At 20:30 on January 24th, a tourist released a video on a short video platform and located in Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, with the topic set to "Zhangjiajie Hundred Dragons Stairway to Heaven".
Tourists at the scene lined up to descend the mountain. Photo credit: Screenshot of the video posted by the tourists Red Star News
The video shows a lot of tourists at the scene and a lot of noise. The tourists said, because of a variety of not released and pushing and shoving, its "several times were squeezed to breathing difficulties". The tourists questioned, the bus on the mountain to send people empty after leaving, do not care about the tourists stranded on the mountain. "Why? Because there is money to be paid for downhill elevator tickets to be sold ah."
20:36, the tourists said they finally lined up to check the ticket to take the elevator down the mountain, but there are still a lot of people behind the mountain. On the short-video platform, there were other tourists reflecting on being stranded at the scenic spot. "At the top of Zhangjiajie's mountain, a sea of people are lining up and can't get down." Another tourists with the group released a video, many tourists sitting on the bus, which said that almost to 10 pm, they have not eaten dinner, the guide also took them in the "pocket".
According to Red Star News, for tourists to reflect the problem of being trapped and stranded, the morning of January 25, the reporter contacted the Zhangjiajie Wulingyuan District Culture, Tourism, Radio, Television and Sports Bureau. A staff member said that no tourists were stranded, January 24 has been orderly arrangements for tourists down the mountain. But for tourists when all down the mountain, the staff said need to ask the scenic area, and provided the contact number of the Hundred Dragon Stairs operating company.
"Stranded not to talk about, just too many tourists." Subsequently, the Hundred Dragons Stairway operating company related staff said, not only the Hundred Dragons Stairway, the entire scenic area during the Spring Festival tourists are more, January 24th is the most tourists in the last three years of the day. For this reason, taking into account the tourists did not eat and the night is cooler, the night of the 24th, they also gave the tourists warm water, cookies and snacks. He also said that on that night, the tourists in the Hundred Dragons Stairway were all sent down the mountain at 9:00 pm. This is because there are more tourists during the Spring Festival. "Our elevator is very smooth."
The staff also said that when there were not many tourists in the Hundred Dragons Stairway previously, the tourists were usually all sent down the mountain at 6 or 7 pm. And the scenic area, in addition to the company-run Hundred Dragons Stairway, there are two ropeways down the mountain, tourists can also take the bus down the mountain, which are managed by the local government's industrial company. "But there are fewer tourists there."
"Our staff and leaders are on the spot and have been maintaining order and arranging for them to descend the mountain in an orderly manner." Zhangjiajie Wulingyuan Scenic Spot and National Forest Park Administration staff said that during the Spring Festival, the scenic area has a relatively large flow of people, the top of the mountain ropeway, cable car has been running, and did not stop running, just a little slower, and the scenic area is also timely according to the flow of traffic diversion. But the night of January 24 when visitors specifically all down the mountain, the staff said it is not clear, need to be verified with the field department. "We have been on duty, have been with them, on-site and tourists to communicate, pacify them."
Subsequently, another staff member of the Authority said that the scenic area down the mountain in addition to the elevator and two ropeways, there is also a road. "If the ropeways and elevators can't operate because of extreme weather, they can be evacuated by road. But in this case, tourists are not willing to choose that side either." He said tourists descend late, mainly because many tourists go up the mountain to see the view, and when they go in, it's already noon, and they see the view until it's dark at 6 or 7 pm. "Then, down the mountain there are still stranded tourists, ropeway capacity is certainly limited, can only queue, slowly transported down the mountain."
When were the tourists evacuated off the mountain on the night of January 24? The staff member said the last tourists should have gone down the mountain at almost 9 p.m.
"There were more people found on site yesterday, and restrictions were also imposed on some sections of the road." A staff member of the Authority said that on Jan. 25, the scenic area has limited the flow of each line, the implementation of a single cycle line, so that tourists try not to take the repeated lines, to guide the flow of people quickly in and out of the scenic area.
The State Council Security Committee Office issued a safety tip
Just yesterday, the Taishan scenic area one day three issued a tip: the temperature at the summit -22 ℃, has been booked "0 yuan tickets" tourists can be refunded, after the cold wave and then booked.
Three tips a day for the Taishan scenic area, Huangshan tourists said the snowfall stranded 5-7 hours and other phenomena, January 25, the State Council Office of the Safety Commission also urgently issued a safety tip, the relevant departments around the world to strengthen the safety supervision of scenic spots, check all kinds of risks and hidden dangers, set up a warning sign, and arrange for special inspection; tourists do not go to the unofficial development of the open area to play in the mountainous areas, river valleys, etc. to play! When you pay attention to prevent the impact of water and other risks, to comply with safety regulations, to strengthen their own safety precautions.
The State Council Security Committee Office issued safety tips
The first four days of the Spring Festival holiday, hotels, B&Bs,
Tickets bookings have reversed 2019
January 25, the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, the Daily Economic News reporter was informed by Ctrip that the first four days of the Spring Festival of the Year of the Rabbit in 2023, including hotels, B&Bs, scenic area tickets, including the tourism multi-industry has exceeded the same period in 2019. Compared with the same period of last year's Spring Festival, the number of B&B bookings has increased by more than two times year-on-year, and the number of tickets booked has increased by more than 50 percent year-on-year.
In the first four days of the Spring Festival of the Year of the Rabbit, outbound air ticket bookings for mainland tourists grew more than four times year-on-year, and outbound hotel bookings grew more than two times year-on-year. Among outbound destinations, Hong Kong, China, and Macau, China, were among the top two popular ones, with Bangkok, Thailand, in third place, and Singapore and Phuket, Thailand, in fourth and fifth place.
Ctrip data show that in the Spring Festival of the Year of the Rabbit, the number of scenic spot tickets and B&B bookings in many cities across the country ushered in a sharp increase, with Xi'an, Xiamen, Hangzhou, Changsha, Kunming, Nanjing and other popular tourist cities showing bright performance.
Among them, Xi'an's scenic spot ticket bookings increased 653 percent year-on-year, and B&B bookings increased more than 10 times year-on-year; Xiamen's scenic spot ticket bookings increased 421 percent year-on-year, and B&B bookings increased 653 percent year-on-year; and Hangzhou's scenic spot ticket bookings increased more than 10 times year-on-year, and B&B bookings increased 643 percent year-on-year.
Before the Spring Festival holiday began, many cities and scenic spots across the country launched scenic spots free tickets, joint tickets or discounts and other preferential measures, as the first Spring Festival after the adjustment of the epidemic prevention and control policies, the tourism market is ushering in the recovery, many scenic spots "good news" frequently.
Zhangjiajie City Culture, Tourism, Radio, Television and Sports Bureau released data show that on January 24th, Zhangjiajie National Forest Park **** received more than 60,000 tourists, the number of people received a single day record high.
As of January 23, Jade Dragon Snow Mountain Scenic Area*** received 67,273 tourists, an increase of 12.90% over the same period in 2019 and 467.32% over the same period in 2022. The Emei Mountain scenic area received 52,000, 43,000 and 48,000 tourists per day from Jan. 22 to Jan. 24, respectively.
Hangzhou West Lake received 529,300 tourists on Jan. 24, up 946.05 percent year-on-year from the previous year, recovering to 80.04 percent of the pre-epidemic 2019
According to Shenzhen Special Administrative Region News, this year's Spring Festival, Shenzhen's tourism market recovered significantly, with passenger traffic reaching record highs. The reporter learned from the Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports that in the first four days of the Spring Festival holiday, Shenzhen's key monitoring scenic spots received a total of 865,500 tourists, with an operating income of 67,116,400 yuan, an increase of 178.46% and 249.16% respectively compared with the same period last year. Among them, Happy Harbor received 71,900 visitors on a single day, Happy Coast received 56,900 visitors, and Window of the World received 42,700 visitors. Statistics from several online travel platforms point to the same conclusion: Shenzhen is among the top 10 on the list of popular destinations in mainland China.
Shanghai received 5.6881 million visitors in the first four days of the Spring Festival, including 1.5963 million on the third day of the Lunar New Year, according to Shanghai Tourism Data Monitor.
Editing|Cheng Peng Du Hengfeng
Proofreading|Zhao Qing
The Daily Economic News is synthesized from the app, Orange Persimmon Interactive, Shenzhen Special Administrative Region News, Red Star News
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