On Jan. 14, Wulingyuan District, the territory of Zhangjiajie UGGp, held a talkfest on tourism-market development. During the meeting, Mr. Zhu Yongwen, the Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of People's Congress of Zhangjiajie City and the Party Committee Secretary of Wuliangyuan District, told the journalists that in 2018, a win-win situation has been achieved in Zhangjiajie UGGp. It has received more than 30 million visitors*times, more than 16 million visitors*days who stayed overnights, and more than 26 billion Yuan in revenue, increasing 15.06%, 21.87% and 20.04%, respectively. This makes the tourism and economy of the district continuously increase in a sustainable way, and the number of visitors*days to Zhangjiajie UGGp reached the highest over the last 30 years.
Photo of the talkfest
In 2018, Wulingyuan District took the strategy of "enhancing quality and making great achievement again" and actively adapted to the new normal situation, with an overall objective of developing into international tourism, leisure and holiday areas. While centralizing on stablizing the tourism market and economy, Wulingyuan District also gained further development with considerable efforts being made on turning over the low state of overseas tourists sources, continuously improving tourism-related transportation and facilities, continuously making the tourism industry more abundant, developing rural tourism, and promoting tourism in all areas and on all aspects in a vivid form. As a result, Wuling Grand Road, Yangjiajie Grand Road, and the 1st term of the south of the Circular Road around the scenic areas were fully constructed, while the tourists centers at Wujiayu and Tianzi Mount and the 1st term of cable car at Huangshizhai were essentially constructed. Importantly, a group of family inns in Xiehe Village were well developed. All of these have made Wulingyuan District take the title of a national demonstration area of ecological civilization construction.
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