Enjoy outdoor scenery amid anti-virus measures

Tourist and cultural venues should guard against mass gathering fuelled by policies like exempting entrance tickets, and public venues like parks should extend open hours to meet public demands for outdoor activities, said He Jianmin, a professor from the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.

He suggested tourist destinations leverage the Internet to optimize management. Information technologies can be used to solve specific problems including predicting tourist traffic and managing tourist flows to ensure visitors' safety, he said.

In eastern China's Zhejiang povince and the south island province of Hainan, vouchers were distributed to boost tourism. Online booking of tickets were encouraged.

As spring comes and travel restrictions still exist to some extent, Chinese people are developing an appetite for online cultural experience.

In Beijing, the Palace Museum live streamed its palaces and vermilion walls shimmering in the spring sun to more than 400,000 online viewers over the holiday.