Visiting Fantawild, enjoying the Garden Expo,climbing the city wall and seeing the light show...The familyof Xiaoning Liao from Wuhan has spent an unforgettable National Day holiday inJingzhou. She said: “The ‘tourism feast’ served in Jingzhou is so abundant thatI don’t want to leave within 7 days.”

During the long National Day holidays thisyear, two new scenic spots of Jingzhou Fantawild and Jingzhou Garden Expo Park,as well as the traditional scenic spots taking advantage of the growingmomentum, vigorously boosted Jingzhou tourism market and set off a new upsurge.

According to the statistics of the MunicipalBureau of Culture and Tourism, the city totally received 2.812 million touristsduring the National Day holidays, and achieved the comprehensive tourismrevenue of 2.238 billion yuan, an increase of 39.8% and 43.6% respectivelycompared with the same period last year.

[The "two parks" detonated Jingzhou tourism]

As the first large-scale high tech culturaltheme park invested and built by Fantawild Holdings Inc. in Hubei Province,Jingzhou Fantawild Oriental Heritage has attracted 161,100 tourists to Jingzhoufor travel by virtue of its abundant theme entertainment projects andcharacteristic Jingchu cultural performances during the National Day.

Despite 3,000 parking spaces in the park everyday, it was still hard for tourists to find one parking space. The trafficpolice took measures such as nearby dredging and surrounding expansion tofurther increase parking spaces so as to meet the needs of tourists.

The visiting peak of tourists came on October3. The reports saw that many popular projects need lining up as long as 240minutes from the real-time monitoring of the Fantawild travel APP. According tostatistics, the tourist amount on that day reached 35,500.

In addition to 41 theme venues and more than200 leisure landscape projects, the seven consecutive days of themed fireworksshow  of" The Extraordinary Splendorof Ancient China" and nearly a hundred performance activities in the parkalso received the tourists’ heated extolling, boosting Jingzhou Fantawild tobecome one of the most popular tourist places for visiting in Hubei Province.

Jingzhou Garden Expo Park, less than a10-minute drive from Jingzhou Fantawild, was also bustling.

In the 45 exhibition gardens, the touristsjostled each other in a crowd. In addition to the beautiful garden scenery fullof artistic atmosphere, colorful festival activities in the park also became animportant reason for attracting tourists. On the float parade activity, 150dancers with different shapes from flag square matrix, square matrix of ChuCharm and cartoon square matrix interacted intimately with tourists along theroad.

The performance of Dance Accompanied by Music of Chu Palace on the second floor of themain exhibition hall allowed the audience to experience a feast of Chu culturein person.

In the Chu Culture Experience Center,intangible cultural heritage projects such as Han embroidery and Jingchu pastelmade tourists indulge in pleasures without stop all the more.

According to statistics, more than 100,000tourists visited the Garden Expo Park to enjoy the splendid landscape of thegarden and taste the charm of Jingchu during the seven-day holiday.

[The "night tour economy" ofJingzhou Ancient Wall exceeded 106 million yuan]

During the National Day holidays, as the new scenicspots were well received, Jingzhou traditional scenic spots also took advantageof the growing momentum to stage a series of attractive, interesting andsongful activities.

With the twinkling light and pleasant music,the solemn and towering Jingzhou Ancient City Wall witnessed the flag rustlingas the wind blew it, ten thousand horses galloping ahead and the golden phoenixsoaring in a flash. Every night, the light show staged in Jingzhou Ancient CityBinyang Tower has attracted many tourists to watch and enjoy the wonderfulscenery, jostling each other in a crowd on the spot. 

Against the lights, the urban landmarks like theAncient City Wall, Binyang Tower, Guan Gong Icon, the Soaring Golden Phoenix,Nine-Dragon Column and the Portrait of Qu Yuan became more colorful andsparkling, empowering the Ancient City of Jingzhou to glow with a new brilliantlight. "The solemn ancient city wall in the daytime can also exude thecharm of fashion and technology at night. The light show in Jingzhou AncientCity is so shocking." Mr. Cui, a tourist from Yichang, said excitedly.

At the same time, "The Flames of War in ThreeKingdoms Period· Lion International Electronic Music Festival" in GuanGong Yi Park was put on the stage shockingly, and projects like hot airballoon, "cyber celerity bridge" in the park were chased after by alarge number of young people at night.

According to the statistics of the MunicipalBureau of Culture and Tourism, the scenic spot of Jingzhou Ancient Cityreceived a total of 212,000 person-times in seven days and achieved a revenueof 106 million yuan. The "night tour economy" has gradually become anew highlight and growth point in the integration of Jingzhou culture andtourism.

[The continuous boom in country tour in county-level cities led to thedifficulty of getting a room ]

In the early morning on October 2, long queueformed at the Songzi Weishui Dam. Apart from the local people, many are self-drivingtourists from Wuhan, Yichang, Xiangyang, Qianjiang, etc.

During the National Day, the Songzi Weishui ScenicArea was also very bustling and hustling.Combined withcamp light festival, such interactive activities as hot air balloon, clowntour, Jingchu folklore performances strived to meet the all-weather tour demandof the tourists, thus building a joyous festival atmosphere and strengtheningthe entertainment experience of the tourists. It also led to the increasingpopularity of the Weishui Scenic Area, and "the difficulty of getting aroom" in the Weishui Holiday Inn.

In Honghu Eco-Tourism Scenic Area, with thecompletion and acceptance of Honghu Tourism Port before the festival, the basicconditions and tourism pattern of Honghu tourism were greatly improved, thus becominga new growth point of tourism economy.

During the National Day, Yuexi Peninsula,Jinwan Flower Sea, Jinwan Hotel, Greenway Around the Lake, Martyrs Cemetery andthe Red Capital Qujiawan formed an organic whole and opened a new chapter oftourism around the Honghu Lake, attracting many tourists to experience islandlife.