Rural tourism popular in Xifeng county

During the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day combined holiday, Xifeng county in Southwest China's Guizhou province received a total of 1.19 million tourists, with a tourism revenue of 941.13 million yuan ($139.51 million). Of the total, 417,000 were rural tourists, and rural tourism revenue reached 329 million yuan, according to local officials.

During the holiday, Xifeng county had developed 17 new Harvest Festival themed tourist routes around hot springs, picking experiences and pastoral complex projects, including seven picking routes, six pastoral complex routes, and four harvest festival routes.

Xifeng also carried out cultural and sports activities, such as the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day festival social dancing party, the Mid-Autumn Festival symphony concerts, and walking activities, creating a joyous and festive holiday atmosphere.

Meanwhile, Xifeng Concentration Camp Revolutionary History Memorial Hall, Xifeng Hot Spring Sanatorium and all accommodation businesses in Xifeng had access to a region-wide intelligent tourism platform, which was released by Guizhou to provide tourists with an easy way to find to eating, accommodation, travel, shopping and entertainment services. Tourists can also enjoy relevant ticket-booking through the platform.

In addition, the county's accommodation enterprises attracted personalized travel consumption through a series of measures, such as product promotion. During the holiday, the occupancy rate of the county's six accommodation enterprises above designated size exceeded 70 percent, and the occupancy rate of accommodation enterprises below designated size exceeded 60 percent.

Che Weiwei contributed to this story.