Xinjiang aims to attract more visitors after terrorist attacks
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Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have begun improving travel services in a bid to boost tourism following a spate of terrorist attacks.
Xinjiang received about 7.2 million domestic tourists in the first quarter of the year, an increase of 9 percent from the same period of last year, the regional tourism bureau said.
With about 1,100 attractions, Xinjiang is a popular destination for Chinese travelers, but due to a string of terrorist attacks, tourist arrivals fell last year.
About 49.5 million tourists visited the region last year, 4.9 percent fewer than in 2013.
To promote tourism in Xinjiang, the regional bureau last Friday launched a six-month campaign to improve the region’s travel services.
This includes penalizing illegal hotels, travel agencies and guides; standardizing signs in regional tourist service centers, parking lots and scenic areas; and strengthening security checks at the scenic spots.
Travel times have been shortened in the region since Xinjiang’s first high-speed rail line started operations in November.
The regional tourism bureau and the Urumqi Railway Bureau have jointly launched 16 railway tours, including a lavender viewing trip, a desert outing and a mulberry picking tour.
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