Kaiyang's homestay economy blooms amidst mountains and tea gardens

In recent years, Kaiyang county in Guiyang, capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province, has been working to integrate the homestay economy with rural tourism and establish more characteristic mountain homestay brands to promote rural vitalization.

The homestays in Baifan village group, Nanjiang township, for example, are renovated from ordinary rural residences. With a delicate layout and comprehensive functions, Baifan village group has become a charming tourist destination.

The homestay in Baifan village group. [Photo/WeChat account of Kaiyang county]

The Yunshan Tea Sea Garden not only has homestays surrounded by tea ridges, but camping tents as well. This provides tourists with an opportunity to get close with nature and experience the great outdoors.

The homestay in Yunshan Tea Sea Garden. [Photo/WeChat account of Kaiyang county]

As a tea tourism and vacation center, Yunshan Tea Sea Garden has been actively exploring an industrial model that combines tea appreciation, tea-leaf picking and tea brewing, and focusing on creating new business models revolving around sightseeing, picking and processing, and cultural leisure.

The Yunshan Tea Sea Garden. [Photo/WeChat account of Kaiyang county]

Yang Changyu, deputy general manager of the Yunshan Tea Sea Tourism Resort, stated that Yunshan Tea Sea Garden has developed into an agricultural tourism attraction featuring food, accommodation, transportation, tourism, shopping, and entertainment. In the future, the Yunshan Tea Sea Garden will continuously promote the integrated development of local tea tourism, rural tourism and related industries so as to increase farmers' incomes and promote rural vitalization.