On July 7, the Hunan Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism announced at a press conference that Hunan Province will strive to generate a tourism revenue of more than one trillion yuan in 2021, aiming to reach and exceed the level of 2019. The tourism industry is expected to be the fourth one-trillion-yuan industry in Hunan, following equipment manufacturing, agricultural product processing, and new materials. The target will make Hunan the ninth province in China with a one-trillion-yuan tourism industry.

In 2020, the foreign and domestic tourist arrival numbers in Hunan were 85% of that in 2019. Hunan's promotion of the resumption of work and production of cultural and tourism enterprises was selected as a typical case by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

Hunan saw 188 million domestic and foreign tourist trips in the first quarter of 2021, which equaled to more than 90% of that in 2019.

In 2020, Hunan has carried out special rectification of cultural and tourism market and probed overly cheap tours, to ensure the fulfillment of entity and regulatory responsibilities in safety production. The province has taken a three-year action plan to crack down on illegal business activities in cultural and tourism market and make it operate in a safe and orderly manner. 

This article is from Hunan Provincial Government www.enghunan.gov.cn.

Translator: Xiao Juan

Chinese source: voice of China