Visitor numbers jump while 'Red' landmarks cherished

Tourists spent 1.78 billion yuan ($250 million) in Zhuhai during the National Day holiday as 2.71 million visited the city's "Red Tourism" sites, cultural relics, and theme parks.

This year's increases are pegged at 12.2 percent for spending, 7.2 percent in the number of visitors, and 7.3 percent (635,600) in overnight stays, according to the Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism & Sports Bureau.

Mobile big-data statistics show that most of the visitors came from neighboring Guangzhou, Zhongshan, Shenzhen, Foshan, Dongguan, and Jiangmen.

Meanwhile, those from Hunan, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Hubei, Beijing, Hong Kong, and Taiwan constituted the bulk of domestic visitors from beyond Guangdong. As for overseas guests, most were from the USA, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Australia.

As this year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, 16,000 Chinese participated in Red Tourism, visiting sites with historical significance "to rekindle their long-lost sense of class struggle and proletarian principles." They admired the Exhibition Hall of Su Zhaozheng's Former Residence, Yang Pao'an Exhibition Hall, Lin Wei-min & Early Workers Movement Historical Relics Showroom, and Gu Yuan's Former Residence.

Charming cultural relic protection units and immovable cultural relic sites along Changnanjing Old Path, including the Former Residence of Chun Afong (Chen Fang), Huitong Ancestral Hall and ancient architectural complex, and Gongleyuan Park, attracted 36,000 visitors.

Furthermore, Zhuhai Chimelong International Ocean Resort, Lionsgate Entertainment World, Sumlodol Hengqin Camping Town, New Yuanming Palace, and Ocean Spring Resortwooed visitors with VR and AR entertainment, carnivals, various performances, music festivals, fireworks, and more.