Tourists are resting beside the Jianwen Trail in the South Hot Springs. Photo by Jieliu Art.
During the Spring Festival of 2024, the South Hot Spring Scenic Area in Banan District, Chongqing City will usher in a peak of passenger flow, and "hot spring tours", "red tours", "festival tours" and "exhibition tours" will become the characteristic tourism projects of South Hot Springs. According to statistics, since Chinese New Year's Eve, the tourist flow of scenic spots has increased by 30% year-on-year.
The South Hot Spring Scenic Area is a famous municipal-level scenic spot, a municipal-level hot spring tourist resort, and a historical garden in Chongqing, and its hot spring resources rank first among the "Old Five Springs" in Chongqing, and are known as "the first soup in Chongqing". At the South Hot Spring Park Hot Spring Club, 21 special pools of different sizes are all open, and many tourists are mobilized by the whole family to wash away the fatigue of the year in the warm hot spring pool, and celebrate the Spring Festival in the way of hot springs. Liang Xiaoqin, manager of the South Hot Spring Park Hot Spring Club, said: "From Chinese New Year's Eve to the Lantern Festival, we are open from 9 a.m. to 23 p.m., with more than 1,000 visitors per day. "In the Radisson Hotel Chongqing South Hot Spring, which is close to the hot spring pool, it is also the best weaving. "The Radisson Hotel has a total of 89 room types, and the hotel also ushered in the peak of passenger flow during the Spring Festival, with full rooms for three consecutive days, and more than 2,000 guests stayed. Peng Dan, deputy director of the sales department of the Radisson Hotel Chongqing South Hot Spring, introduced. In Hexin Island, No. 10 Middle School Memory Park, Cliff Flying Spring, Scenic Square and other places, catering, accommodation, hot springs, rope slides and other entertainment consumption are hot, and the scenic area is crowded.
Tourists walk into the Liberation Chongqing Historical Exhibition Hall. Photo by Rosa.
In addition to the abundant natural resources and hot spring resources, the red resources of the South Hot Spring Scenic Area are a major feature of the scenic spot. It is understood that Nanquan is the place where the first shot was fired to liberate Chongqing City, and the famous "Nanquan Battle" was fought here. In the Spring of the Year of the Dragon, while celebrating the festival, people do not forget to visit the revolutionary sites and pursue the red memory. In the Liberation of Chongqing History Exhibition Hall and the site of the main battlefield of Liberation of Chongqing located in the scenic spot, tourists earnestly study and understand the heroic deeds of the revolutionary predecessors, cherish the memory of the revolutionary martyrs, and inherit the spirit of Hongyan.
During the Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon, the "Exhibition Tour" helps the New Year of the Dragon arrive. From Chinese New Year's Eve to the Lantern Festival, the South Hot Spring Scenic Area, the 824 Research Institute of Chongqing Geographic Information and Remote Sensing Application Center, and the Banan District Cultural Heritage Protection Center held the "Dragon Dance China" Spring Festival Cultural Series Exhibition and the "Dragon Year Chongqing Dragon Horse Spirit" series of exhibitions, and set up display boards in Park Square and other places for the general public and tourists to visit and create a strong atmosphere for the Year of the Dragon. Intangible cultural heritage dragon dance, solitaire blowing, fun games, agricultural products exhibition and sales ......During the Spring Festival, the South Hot Spring Scenic Area Square in Banan District is very lively. "Rural customs and folk customs welcome the Year of the Dragon, national style and folk music celebrate the New Year" 2024 Banan District Fun Tour South Hot Spring Spring Festival activities were held lively, with fun rings, happy pot throwing, national style folk music performances, and prize-winning knowledge quizzes staged wonderfully, providing a new experience of "eating, living, traveling, traveling, entertaining and shopping" for the surrounding people and the general public and tourists.
The South Hot Spring Scenic Area has sent additional manpower to strictly implement the 24-hour on-duty system, and carried out activities such as "I send a cup of tea to tourists", "eat three chickens" and "guess lantern riddles" to show the unique resource charm of South Hot Spring. During the Spring Festival, the South Hot Spring Scenic Area has 670,000 person-times, achieving a comprehensive tourism income of 1,253290,000 yuan, an increase of 30% year-on-year in 2023, and at the same time, a series of festivals and activities were carefully organized and planned to drive the vigorous development of the scenic tourism market and help the Banan cultural tourism market continue to be hot. Li Hongliang, director of the South Hot Spring Tourism Development Center of Banan District, introduced. (Wang Yu).