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Dianbai popular with tourists on Labor Day holiday

(chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2020-05-07
 

A total of 53,200 tourists visited Dianbai district, Maoming from May 1 to May 2, the first two days of the five-day Labor Day holiday, generating 11.47 million yuan ($1.62 million) in total tourism revenue.

In recent years, Dianbai district has been promoting the transformation and upgrading of its tourism industry from "scenic spot tourism" to "all-for-one tourism" by comprehensively improving tourism resources, infrastructure, tourism functions, and industrial layout, as well as by making high quality tourism brands.

The district has also been exploring the development model of "agriculture plus tourism" and built a demonstration zone for the integration of agriculture and tourism to boost rural tourism.

In addition, the district boasts convenient transportation, with the Shenyang-Haikou, the Baotou-Maoming, and the Shantou-Zhanjiang expressways, as well as the Shenzhen-Maoming Railway traveling through it. It is only a 30 minute drive from the district to the new Zhanjiang Airport, which is under construction.

Construction of the coastal tourist highway is underway, and the bridge on Bohe Bay, which has an investment of 398 million yuan, has been put into operation.

In 2019, Dianbai district received a total of 23.55 million tourists and generated 24.56 billion yuan in tourism revenue.