Mass tourism era can be expected as Premier Li encourages paid vacations
Updated: 2016-03-08 11:22
(chinadaily.com.cn)
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NPC deputy, deputy director of Shaanxi Provincial Tourism Bureau CSU Mingzheng proposes that the Spring Festival holiday should be extended to 10-12 days from the current 7-day vacation. Xu said his suggestion is based on the fact that the 7-day holiday is so short that people spend more time on the road more than the time they spend with their families, and many social problems also arise from the crowded scenic spots and traffic jams, while an extension of the Spring Festival holiday, which now is one of the two longest vacations periods in China (the other major vacation is October’s National Day holiday) and makes up a big part of the outbound tourism market, can “better satisfy people’s needs to have more time for family reunion, and at the same time boost consumption, stimulate internal demands and facilitate an upgrade of economic development, plus ease traffic pressure brought on by intensive travel demands in such a short holiday period”,said Xu.
An even bolder proposal comes from Huang Xihua, NPC deputy and director of Huizhou Tourism Bureau in Guangdong province. She proposes that each month should have a 'golden week', specifically, she wants people to only take one weekend day off in the first three weeks of a month, and reschedule the remaining three days to the end of the month and together with the fourth weekend, people can have a five-day holiday. Huang maintains that this mode needs a pilot run in some places, and this initiative is a good reform direction for both scenic spots and those holidaygoers.
Voices come from all directions and because of the various requirements and conditions in different regions and industries, implementation is an even tougher task than policy-making. However, what can’t be denied is the substantial potential China has for tourism and Chinese people’s ever-increasing need to upgrade their consumption style. According to reports of the National Tourism Administration, In 2015, 120 million Chinese went overseas and spent $104.5 billion.
"Tourism is a high-level spiritual need", said Liang Jianzhang, and this inner driving force can definitely lead China into an era of mass tourism.
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