On May 7, the reporter learned from the Panlong District Bureau of Culture and Tourism that during the "May Day" period, Panlong District received a total of 1.2094 million tourists, a year-on-year increase of 7.61%, and achieved tourism spending of 1.283 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10.86%. Among them, 1.038 million one-day tourists were received, accounting for 85.83% of the total number of tourists, and 918 million yuan was spent on one-day tourism, accounting for 71.53% of the tourism expenditure. It received 171,400 overnight tourists, accounting for 14.17% of the total number of tourists, and spent 365 million yuan on overnight tourists, accounting for 28.47% of the tourism expenditure.
During the "May Day" holiday, the Kunming World Expo Park deeply cultivated the research content, created 7 major research course systems close to nature, small natural creators, natural wonders, oriental humanities, natural painting experience, intangible cultural heritage handicraft experience, and natural exploration, and launched 24 types of exclusive study tour experiences; The Kunming Botanical Garden combines excursory learning and handicrafts to enable students to learn in the field and experience the charm of biodiversity through a combination of excursory learning and handicrafts.
The Jindian Scenic Area launched the "Jindian Tourism Cultural and Creative Design Research Course in My Eyes". Popular science of the history, humanities and natural landscapes of the Golden Palace, looking for the cultural and plant symbols that are representative of the Golden Palace, the art forms that appear on the ancient buildings of the Golden Palace, understanding their historical background and artistic value, and through the sketching of the park, recording what they see and hear, and observing the tourism cultural and creative commodities from all over the world, inside and outside the province, studying their commonalities and differences in groups, understanding the cultural value, commodity value and the material of making them, etc., and designing tourism cultural and creative commodities with the characteristics of the Golden Palace.
During the "May Day" period, jacaranda, peonies, peonies, roses, snapdragons and other flowers are in full bloom, and "flower + tourism" has become a new highlight of Panlong Cultural Tourism. Kunming Botanical Garden opens the "bursting" mode - from April 13 to May 15, 2024, the 6th Allium Culture and Art Exhibition with the theme of "Time Knows the Taste of the Years and Shallots" has been "verdant". The Sino-Ukrainian Global Allium Garden (Kunming Center) in the East Garden of the Botanical Garden focuses on more than a dozen varieties, about 1,000 ornamental Allium plants, as well as some native species and economic Allium plants. With the blooming of all kinds of green onions, the Sino-Ukrainian Global Green Onion Garden (Kunming Center) "the grass is thick and the butterflies are dancing, and the flowers are dense and the warblers are crying".
Jindian Scenic Area, Black Dragon Pond Park, Tanhua Temple Park held "There is a life called Yunnan - the first Yunnan folk songs are sung" Kunming Song Contest Panlong branch activities, inviting visitors from all over the world to sing folk songs, tourists can hold the microphone as a protagonist, enjoy Panlong, feel the enthusiasm and charm of the Spring City. "Beautiful Yi Township Welcomes You", "Counting Arhats", "Midu Mountain Song", "Tan Gan Mei" and other familiar Hu songs, cheerful dancing, igniting the audience.
During the "May Day" period, the Panlong District Culture and Tourism Bureau strictly manages the tourism market, gives full play to the role of overall coordination, implements the emergency duty and complaint handling mechanism, strengthens the safety and order inspection and on-site regulation and command, improves the safeguard measures, and does a good job in emergency response to ensure the smooth progress of tourism reception during the festival. It is reported that the number of complaints during the May Day holiday in 2024 will decrease by 69.23% year-on-year compared with 2023.