In the first three quarters, domestic tourism revenue reached 3.7 trillion yuan.

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, December 15th, The Economic Information Daily published an article on December 15th entitled "Domestic tourism revenue in the first three quarters was 3.7 trillion yuan". According to the article, on December 14th, the reporter learned from the series of thematic press conferences on "Opening by Authoritative Authorities" held by the State Council Office that in the first three quarters of this year, domestic tourism reached 3.67 billion person-times, and tourism revenue reached 3.7 trillion yuan, up by 75% and 114% respectively. Residents’ tourism demand has been released in a centralized way, and residents’ travel has increased substantially.

Du Jiang, Vice Minister of Culture and Tourism, said that this year’s tourism market can be described as booming, which not only promoted the expansion of related consumption, but also promoted economic recovery. "Since the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism has continuously improved the quality of tourism products and innovated the supply of tourism products. We have actively developed new products and formats such as camping tourism, ice and snow tourism, sports tourism, marine tourism, and tourism performing arts, and launched 7 national ski resorts, 22 camps of the third batch of national self-driving caravans 5C and 4C, 13 national sports tourism demonstration bases, the first batch of 24 smart tourism immersive experience new space cultivation pilots, and 40 tourism performing arts boutique projects. "

In addition, the reporter learned that in order to further release the potential of tourism consumption and promote the high-quality development of tourism, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism said that the next step will be to promote cultural and tourism consumption, improve the quality of life of the people and better meet the needs of the people.

"The Ministry of Culture and Tourism promotes the implementation of the’ Domestic Tourism Promotion Plan’, enriches the supply of high-quality tourism products, improves tourism services, regulates the order of the tourism market and creates a tourist destination with quality and temperature. At the same time, we will further promote the in-depth integration of cultural tourism, foster new consumption formats and new modes, promote the construction of a’ small but beautiful’ performing arts space, and innovate and upgrade music festivals, concerts and other products. Promote the healthy development of new formats such as script entertainment and tourism performing arts, and promote the integration of food, performance, sports, health care, Chinese medicine and other fields with tourism. We will also promote a new batch of national cultural and tourism consumption demonstration cities, national tourist resorts, 5A-level scenic spots, national night cultural and tourism consumption gathering areas and a series of brand building. Guide local innovative consumption scenarios, cultivate new formats and consumption patterns, enrich measures to benefit the people, and implement the’ 100 Cities and 100 Districts’ financial support culture and tourism consumption action plan. " Du Jiang said.

It is noteworthy that in terms of optimizing the business environment and maintaining market order, Du Jiang mentioned that the Ministry of Culture and Tourism has continuously relaxed market access, actively innovated supervision methods, created a market-oriented, rule-of-law and international business environment, stimulated the vitality of the cultural and tourism markets, and helped the high-quality development of the industry.

Du Jiang said, on the one hand, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism has relaxed the market access threshold and continuously released policy dividends. The negative list system of market access and the review system of fair competition were fully implemented, a number of administrative examination and approval items were decentralized, and the time limit for examination and approval was reasonably reduced. "In addition, for the new formats of culture and tourism, we adhere to the concept of problem-oriented and inclusive prudence, and introduce inclusive prudential supervision policies for new formats such as script entertainment and e-sports hotels, formulate supervision methods suitable for industry characteristics, set policy transition periods, and create an inclusive, stable and predictable policy environment, leaving enough room for development for new formats."

"Regarding the market order, in the first 11 months of this year, the comprehensive law enforcement agencies of the national cultural market dispatched 9.988 million law enforcement personnel, inspected 3.348 million times and handled 41,000 cases, effectively maintaining the order of the cultural and tourism markets. In the next step, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism will continue to strengthen the comprehensive law enforcement supervision of the cultural and tourism markets, solidly promote a series of law enforcement actions, severely investigate and deal with violations of laws and regulations, and further safeguard the order of the cultural and tourism markets. " Du Jiang said. (Reporter Yuan Xiaokang)