Kaiyang sees tourism boom during New Year holiday

Fog swirls mysteriously around a large tea garden in Kaiyang county. [Photo/Kaiyang Release]

The Kaiyang county of Guiyang – capital city of Southwest China's Guizhou province – received 136,000 tourists during the three-day New Year holiday on Jan 1-3, a whopping year-on-year increase of 23.72 percent.

The tourism revenue generated during the break hit 60 million yuan ($9 million), up 38.05 percent compared with the same period last year.

While strengthening its novel coronavirus prevention and control measures, the precinct was still able to put on a broad variety of fun things to do – ranging from attending concerts to sampling the sumptuous local traditional dishes.

These were efficiently organized during the holiday to entertain tourists, providing them with multiple opportunities to sample the authentic countryside way of living.