Hong Kong tourism is cold.
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It is said that this year's "May Day holiday" can go down in history. What is the reason? Everyone should know that the major tourist cities in China are almost all "hot". The degree of this "hot" is beyond many people's expectations.
If you don't believe me, take a look at the following scenarios:
1. Once again, the Bund in Shanghai is composed of "security fence" by armed police, so as to prevent the occurrence of mass stampede accidents.
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2. The staff of Shandong Taishan Scenic Area directly advised thousands of tourists to go down the mountain, because the density of people in the scenic area is too high, which is easy to cause safety accidents!
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3. There was a spectacle of "blocking camels" in Dunhuang Scenic Area of Gansu Province, and hundreds of tourists rode camels to visit Gobi, causing congestion.
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4. Because there are too many tourists visiting and taking photos on the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge, on the evening of April 30, the local police urgently closed the entrance to the bridge to prevent safety accidents!
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5. On May 1st, Mount Everest was congested for a long time because there were too many people waiting in line to get to the top.
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After reading the above scenes, I believe everyone will be shocked. Do you feel that the whole country has gone out? When you are in a popular scenic spot, look around, except "people" or "people", and even say that every step will feel "extremely difficult"!
However, in such a national "boiling" tourist season, some tourist cities that used to be extremely hot were unexpectedly "cold", which really surprised people. Let's take a look at the "unexpected" situation in these cities:
1. Linzhi, Tibet: Linzhi, Tibet, once spread all over the network because of the "Peach Blossom Forest" like a fairyland, the number of tourists dropped sharply during this May Day, which is said to be the least since 2017.
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2. Old Town of Lijiang, Yunnan Province: This city used to be the hottest "ancient city tourist area" in China, but it was obviously given a cold shoulder this year. Even the "Lugu Lake", which was particularly popular in previous years, was very few tourists, and there was no crowded situation.
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3. Fenghuang Ancient City in Xiangxi, Hunan Province: This is also an extremely popular tourist attraction. Once upon a time, every holiday was crowded, but during the May Day holiday this year, the streets of Fenghuang Ancient City were obviously colder than in previous years.
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After reading the above comparison of "one hot and one cold", I think everyone will be a little surprised, but if you think about it a little more, you should soon understand the reasons.
There must be a reason for the prosperity of a tourist city and scenic spot, or the scenery is charming and the climate is comfortable, such as Yunnan and Hainan. Or it has profound cultural heritage, such as Beijing and Luoyang; Or it is bustling, such as Shanghai, Hong Kong and other places.
No matter what kind of tourist attraction you are, one thing is necessary, that is, "sincere hospitality and thoughtful service!" It can be said that this is the only way to ensure the "local heat". No matter how rich your tourism resources are and how complete your infrastructure is, if you can't guarantee the basic good "experience" of tourists, that is to say, you don't really think about tourists, and even there are widespread acts of cheating tourists, then it can be said that it is a matter of time before you get a "cold reception"
It used to be a tourist attraction, but it was unexpectedly upset during May Day. After seeing the name, it's true!
It's just a separation from the original spectrum, spectrum after spectrum.
Can you believe that the once popular tourist city was cold during the May Day holiday?
A few days ago, some netizens posted a video on social media saying: Old Town of Lijiang is so deserted? Have you all gone to Datang Furong Garden and Zibo?
I saw the street in the video, which is picturesque, but sparsely populated, which is completely different from Lijiang in the past.
What's even more surprising is that some netizens have found a similar scene in Sanya: Sanya, Hainan, with blue sea and blue sky, has the same scenery, but it is far less lively than in previous years.
The netizens sighed: Family, who knows, why are there fewer people on the beach in Sanya during the May Day holiday than usual?
The local restaurant, too, has a large number of empty tables, which look deserted, and there is no such thing as a small holiday.
Although the official bulletin is still full of tourists, many locals said that this May Day really didn't have the peak season that everyone expected. Now, compared with last summer vacation and the Spring Festival, this passenger flow has definitely dropped sharply.
There is also a list of big data queued for the May Day holiday in 2023. There are no shadows of Lijiang and Sanya in the top 22.
In sharp contrast, Zibo became the biggest winner of the May Day holiday.
According to the May Day consumption insight report, the turnover of barbecue in Zibo rose first in the country on May Day, with an increase of five times!
This holiday is really two days of ice and fire, and several families are happy and worried.
People can't help but think: Why was the once popular tourist city abandoned in this Golden Week?
In fact, all this laid the groundwork as early as a few years ago.
Some people say that the reason for the fire in Zibo is: slaughter cattle, slaughter sheep, and not slaughter passengers, so a tourist city that is cold on May 1 ST is just the opposite.
At the beginning of 2023, a female tourist went to Old Town of Lijiang to play. Unexpectedly, she met a big speechless thing here.
The woman casually ordered two skewers of barbecue in a shop, one for bamboo worms and the other for dragonflies.
Unexpectedly, I was told at the time of payment that the two strings totaled 60 yuan!
It costs 60 yuan to roast 6 bugs, which is a far cry from the price of barbecue in Zibo.
The woman felt that she had been cheated, but when she asked the price, the boss had baked a bunch of them quickly. In desperation, the woman could only eat the precious bug with tears in her eyes.
Although the Old Town of Lijiang Service Center argued afterwards that the prices of these two kinds of bugs were very expensive, and the prices were clearly marked in the store, it was not cheating.
But the woman said: the price list is in a corner, you can't see it at all if you don't pay attention, and you baked it without asking the price. Can you not buy it?
If eating and being slaughtered is irritating, then the "wine tray" incident eight years ago is chilling.
In 2015, A Peng, a tourist from Shenzhen, came to Lijiang for a trip, one to relax and the other to have a romantic encounter in this beautiful place.
Soon, a woman contacted him through mobile phone software and asked him to drink together.
A Peng thought that fate had come and gladly kept the appointment.
Unexpectedly, A Peng was taken to a bar by a woman. After ordering 6 bottles of red wine and spending a total of 5,000 yuan, the woman was nowhere to be found.
A Peng told the reporter in a rage, and the reporter made an unannounced visit to the field and found that such incidents were far more than expected.
These wine trays take "affairs" as bait. After taking tourists to designated bars, tourists order red wine for consumption, and they get a commission. Finally, they leave under various excuses, leaving only tourists messy in the wind.
The market price of those red wines was originally only a few hundred or even dozens. When they arrived at the wine tray, they sold thousands or even tens of thousands of yuan!
The benefits behind this can be imagined.
Coincidentally, in 2012, the news that a fish in Sanya wanted 6000 yuan was really surprising.
Netizen Roddy spoke in Weibo:
A friend's family went to Sanya to play, and the taxi driver recommended them to a restaurant. In this restaurant, someone pointed to a fish in the pond and just wanted to ask about the price. The boss just took the fish out and threw it on the scale and said, 11 Jin, 6000 yuan!
Before the guests could be reasonable, a few big men came out of the room, but the guests had no choice but to admit it.
You think this is the end of the incident?
Then someone broke the news: in fact, these fish didn't fall to death at all, just fainted, and they could be put back to raise. The store will find a cheap fish to cook for the guests, which will make a fortune.
In addition, there are tour guides who force tourists to shop, temporary price increases in hotels, and deductions for recommended accommodation by taxi drivers.
Anyone who meets such endless routines can't help but say: there are many routines in the city, so I want to go back to the countryside.
Although the posts of tourists being slaughtered in recent years can be seen everywhere on the Internet, the local government has also responded that it has launched an investigation and dealt with it seriously, and will never tolerate this kind of bullying.
But it has little effect.
As early as 2012, some netizens issued a "prophecy": If this goes on, there will only be fewer and fewer tourists, and they will eat their own fruit. The hacker is actually killing himself, which is a chronic suicide.
Now 11 years later, this prediction has come true.
In addition, people nowadays have already put aside their old ideas, and no longer regard punching in online celebrity as the purpose of traveling.
They value comfort and experience more than following the trend.
In 2018, some research results showed that apart from the scenic features, what tourists value most is the cost of scenic spots, accommodation conditions, and safety.
And after three years of epidemic baptism, people understand a truth more:
Traveling is not just about eating, drinking and enjoying. How to spend money well, comfortably and happily is the fun of traveling.
This kind of fun has been felt by people who have been to Zibo.
Visitors can put down all their worries, and there is no such thing as being slaughtered and cheated.
Is it inconvenient to come to Zibo? Immediately arrange a barbecue train with all kinds of small specialties.
There are 21 barbecue buses when you get off!
I am afraid that you can't find it when you get off the bus, and you also offer a barbecue map.
You want a handsome guy with 185 to pick up the bus? Arrange!
Worried about the price increase of May Day Hotel? Does not exist! I'll give you half the money back if I book a room, don't you dare think?
Menstruation towel and Changyanning are ready for you in the bathroom. To tell you the truth, your parents may not welcome you so much when you go back to your hometown.
I spoil you more than my own mother. Do you think you would like to go?
Where do you dare to entrust yourself these days? Zibo can.
Mr. Wang and his party went to Zibo with 12 people. When they arrived, they found that the hotels were full. They posted a video on the Internet, saying that there was no place to live in Zibo.
After a while, a local elder sister took the 12 people home without saying anything.
The house has been cleaned up, even the floor mats have been paved, so just live in peace.
12 people! So they live for free.
These tourists were so moved that they left five or six hundred dollars before they left.
Do you dare to think about such a thing? 12 strangers take it home, dare you?
Do you dare to sleep in a stranger's house?
In Zibo, strangers trust themselves with confidence.
I'm touched by such a thing. How warm do you think the parties are?
There are also grandmothers who are afraid that tourists and other places will be too hungry, and each person has a steamed stuffed bun.
Not to mention the vast number of local people in Zibo, consciously and spontaneously give way to the license plate number of other places, and pick them up for free.
That's all, one by one, that can't be mobilized by spending money, it's the people of the whole city who sincerely want to see their city. As the owner of the barbecue shop said, "Not to make money, but to fight for the honor of Zibo!"
A city can achieve this level, which is in line with the sentence in Sun Tzu's Art of War: those who share the same desire will win!
Oh, by the way, Sun Wu, the author of The Art of War, is also from Zibo.
If not, Zibo is full of treasures. Sun Wu, who was born in Qi, wrote "The World's First Military Book".
Pu Songling set a table and tea at the entrance of the village, collected folk stories, and finally wrote Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio.
Zibo also has the first government-run university in history: Jixia Xuegong, which was once the center of hundred schools of thought in the Warring States Period. At that time, if you hadn't studied in Jixia Academy, you would be embarrassed to tell people that you were a "sage" when you went out.
This is the charm of Zibo. Started with barbecue, I felt kind and marveled at the profound culture.
Just like you know a girl, you only know that she can cook a good dish at first. After a long time of contact, you find that this family is simple, warm and kind. When you contact again, you find that, wow, it's amazing. There are family origins, family businesses, and ceramics and colored glasses.
Do you feel that you have made a lot of money?
So you say that people are rushing to Zibo, is it really for that barbecue?
China never lacks beautiful scenery and top-notch food.
But to tell the truth, even if Zibo's traffic answer is put on the bright side, not all cities can copy it.
Want to attract tourists, want to keep tourists, is by no means a meal, the superficial smile service is so simple, city managers should reform, is all aspects of the whole city.
In fact, since the fire broke out in Zibo, many city managers have gone to Zibo to learn from the Buddhist scriptures. They went to places where tourists are concentrated, presented various small gifts, and sold themselves by the way to attract tourists.
What's even funnier is that I also saw many units, because Zibo BBQ held one study seminar after another.
But, is it useful? What ordinary people can understand at a glance is more real than holding a seminar.
In the final analysis, there is only one secret: it is better to really change yourself than to go all the way to grab business.
Only when the management consciousness is truly turned into the service consciousness, the traffic will swarm.
The people of China are actually very simple. Whoever treats him well will get 10 points back.
Just like those college students who are treated well by the Zibo municipal government, to put it bluntly, this mighty "Roasting in Zi" campaign is just a sincere exchange.
So, why has Zibo been on fire for so long, and there is still no second city to copy the homework?
May wish to ask all tourist cities to think about it before selling themselves. Has the phenomenon of taxi bypass been cured? Is the phenomenon of hotel price increase four or five times on holidays under control? Are snacks in large and small restaurants cheap and genuine? Has the city parking chaos been rectified? Has the service attitude of the scenic spot kept up? Has the tour guide's forced buying and selling been cured? Have the complaints from tourists been dealt with immediately?
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If you don't change the lining, just learn to face, then this answer will never be copied correctly.
Having said that, chopping wood is not to despise these popular tourist cities, but to be angry. They guard excellent tourist resources and have much more cultural heritage than Zibo, but they always let bad reviews dominate the hot search. Isn't this a kind of sorrow?
When one day, the flow of Zibo ebbs, it is because it is no longer an island, and that is the beginning of real civilization.
