It was rainy and then sunny during the Tomb-sweeping Holiday , but the tourism in Nanyang still kept a prosperous state. During the 3 days’ holiday, scenic spots in Nanyang city totally received 125,260,000 visitors, achieving an increase of 29% and got 655 million RMB tourism incomes, achieving an increase of 30%. what’s more, there was no tourism incidents or complaints during the holiday.

  For the feature of Tomb-sweeping, the scenic spots introduced tourism forms such as red tourism, praying tourism and flower tourism, etc. Tourists to Tongbai County Revolutionary Memorial Museum and Zhenping County Revolutionary Memorial Museum to commemorate revolutionary martyrs and accept patriotism education obviously increased. The Magnolia Flower Festival in Nanzhao county, ten thousand acres of sakura in Madeng town, Xichuan county, and the Flower Sea Festival in Fangcheng county attracted tourists rush to appreciate flowers. Most tourists took a short self-driving trip with their families, accounting for 75% of the total tourists during the 3-day holiday in counties and towns, boosting the rural tourism, ecological tourism and picking tourism.

    Due to the free highway during the holiday and different promotion activities, tourists from other places have increased significantly compared with previous years. For the holiday tourism, clear signage was set on slip-roads in each county and special persons were assigned to receive tourists and provide advice for them.