16, the province held the Seventh International Tourism and Culture Promotion, a total of 22 countries, 180 guests gathered in Chengdu. According to Provincial Tourism Bureau statistics, 5.12 so far after the earthquake, Sichuan tourism and cultural industries are rapidly growing post-disaster reconstruction, from January to August this year, total tourism income of 122.3 billion yuan, an increase of 25%. This year, the tour will achieve 250 million people, with a total income of 170 billion yuan.
It is reported that last year, domestic and foreign tourists in Sichuan received a total of 220 million passengers, an increase of 25.6% over the previous year; the total tourism revenue of 147.248 billion yuan, an increase of 34.9%, have reached and exceeded the level before the earthquake. The trade and cultural exchanges increased by 76%, 130 of which visited the project, an increase of 71%, the highest on record.
Also hearing the Tibetan Qamdo, Yunnan Diqing, Sichuan Ganzi, Yushu in Qinghai Province recently signed a strategic cooperation agreement travel to jointly promote the great circle construction of eco tourism. Agreement establishes a "policy of eliminating inter-regional barriers, market barriers, traffic barriers and service barriers," and so on, which means that in promoting the "Shangri-la Ecological Tourism Zone in China," the pace of construction on the Four States has taken substantial steps, and made consensus. Source: Huaxi Dushi Bao
