Deep discounts during the Tourism Festival
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SIXTY visitor attractions in the city, including the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, Chenshan Botanical Garden, Guyi Garden, Jinjiang Amusement Park and Shanghai Ocean Aquarium, will offer half-price tickets during the first week of the annual Shanghai Tourism Festival, the city’s government said yesterday.
The festival, which will run between September 10 and October 6, will kick off with a 25-float evening parade on Huaihai Road.
Twenty-six teams from 22 countries, including the United States, Italy, Russia, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, and for the first time, Costa Rica, Argentina and Nigeria, will be performing, according to the Shanghai Tourism Administration.
There will also be nine domestic performance teams entertaining the crowds during the two-hour parade, bringing the total number of domestic and overseas performers to more than 1,800.
To mark “China-US Tourism Year,” three American performance teams will participate in the parade, and they will also stage performances on the Nanjing Road Pedestrian Mall and at the Oriental Pearl TV Tower during the festival.
Fifty-six events will be held across Shanghai during the festival. They include: an intangible culture heritage exhibition at Yuyuan Garden, a longtang (alley) sports competition at Jiuzi Park, world coffee culture and sparkling wine festivals in Jing’an District, the Fuxing Style festival in the Hengshan Road and Fuxing Road area, a cruise tourism festival in Hongkou District, a water town wedding ceremony in Fengjing town, an international music and gourmet festival in the Hongqiao area, and a seafood festival in Jinshan District. The international music fireworks festival at Century Park, which has traditionally been held to mark the end of the festival, will not be held this year due to a fireworks ban within the Outer Ring Road. However, a ceremony at the Shanghai Tower will be staged in its place.
Shanghai police are stepping up security for the upcoming festival, which is expected to attract millions of tourists and residents.
They are conducting a safety assessment of each activity and those that are deemed potentially hazardous will be canceled, officials said yesterday. The venue, attendance numbers, timing and scale of activities will be carefully evaluated, and fire safety will be a top priority.
Security checks will be strengthened during the festival, and the number of passengers entering the Huangpi Road S. and Shaanxi Road S. Metro stations on Line 1 will be controlled if big crowds develop during and after the opening parade, police said.
Some buses will change routes for the parade, and extra buses and taxis will be deployed to ease traffic pressure.
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