August 18, the Provincial Forestry Department and the Provincial Tourism Bureau in Chengdu, signed "on the promotion of forestry eco-tourism development cooperation framework agreement," clearly put into Sichuan province and the world eco-tourism eco-tourism destination.
Eco-tourism has become an important pillar of modern forestry
"To further accelerate the integration of forestry and tourism industry development," said Wang Ping, Director of Provincial Forestry Department.
As an eco-tourism resources in the province, the province has been established, including forests, wetlands, wildlife and other nature reserves 167, 108 forest parks, wetland 12. Not only has an advantage in the amount of resources and eco-tourism features clearly. Since 2003, the province will be eco-tourism as a new forestry industry development of the four priorities. In recent years, the benefits of eco-tourism has become increasingly prominent. In 2010, for example, the province's eco-tourism income of 21.05 billion yuan for direct, tourists reached 139.742 million passengers, leading to social income of 95 billion yuan, ranking first in the national forest industry. Especially in direct revenue, exceeding the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" 80 billion target.
"Eco-tourism has become the province an important pillar of the modern forest industry, to become wealthy and increase local economic development and an important channel," Wang said.
In recent years, the Provincial Forestry Department and the Provincial Tourism Bureau has carried out jointly by the province's forestry, eco-tourism top ten counties, Pokka township contest, jointly organized by the 2011 Sichuan Flower Eco-tourism activities, effectively promote the sustained, rapid and eco-tourism in our province forestry development.
Four leading brand of eco-tourism development
Provincial Tourism Bureau, responsible person, the two sides will arrange a certain amount of annual funding to support the province's major forestry eco-tourism projects, focusing on provincial forest parks, nature reserves, wetland and forest eco-tourism demonstration counties (districts, municipalities) , model villages (towns) and the demonstration area of eco-tourism infrastructure, public service facilities and so on.
Provincial Forestry Department related parties, will actively explore the forest eco-tourism development model, the eco-tourism development and the forestry industry, forestry ecological construction and combination of county projects.
Development of forestry eco-tourism at the same time into the "five," the province's tourism industry development planning and forestry planning.
In the next province of eco-tourism development strategy, global marketing giant panda is a core. Provincial Forestry Department and the Provincial Tourism Council all said they would seek a major breakthrough in this.
Province rich in tourism resources to be excavated and the development of more space. Provincial Forestry Department Director Wang Ping, the "five-second" period, the province will rely on the forest parks, nature reserves, wetland, and abundant bamboo forest, wildlife, wetlands and other eco-tourism landscape, focus on ecotourism demonstration construction, to build the giant panda, the forest people, wetlands, recreation and rural eco-tourism in the four major brands.
To "12 5" end, the province's eco-tourism income will reach 400 billion directly to more than 250 million tourists trips, eco tourism, the province's forestry industry output value accounted for the proportion of over 20%. Farmers receive from the development of eco-tourism income of 400 yuan per capita. Source: Sichuan Daily
