Sking sculpture in Xinjiang Silk Road Ski Resort
2 min readThe booming ice and snow style tour has promoted other relevant industries.In addition to directly benefit the local practitioners, the Ice and Snow Tourism also raises the winter seat kilometer utilization of Xinjiang civil aviation, and then raises the hotel occupancy rate in Xinjiang. In the past, winter was the low season of tourism, with low hotel occupancy rate. But now it keeps at around 70% in major hotels of Urumqi. The booming ice-snow tourism makes Xinjiang a hotly contested spot among ski enterprises. In 2006, there were only four simple ski fields in Xinjiang, but now there are more than 200 ski fields, among which 23 are in S-class.
In 2000, China Domestic Travel Mart was held in Xinjiang. This marked the fulm-inant development to the summer tourism in Xinjiang; the National Winter Games will be held in Xinjiang in 2016, which will surely promote the winter tourism in Xinjiang. It can be predicted that Xinjiang winter snow tourism will usher n an unpreceden development opportunity by holding the 2016 National Winter Games. Xinjiang will embrace tourism booming all year round in the near future.
“The God’s back garden”-Hemu scenic spot, tourists are riding horses to climb the mountain Besides the ice-snow tourism, there is also miraculous and unique adventure tourism in Xinjiang.
Unique naturel resources and landscape consist of the best conditions to develop adventure tourism in Xinjiang. Taklimakan Desert in Xinjiang boasts the largest desert in China, and the second largest in the world. Tianchi, the highest natural skating rink is also found in Xinjiang; Xinjiang is also the home for the largest glacier in China-Sue Getty Glacier is located at the north slope of Qogir of Karakoram and the Qogir, the most visited peaks in China, and the second highest peak in the world. Xinjiang is also the hosting place for adventure projects and thrilling experience of desert adventures, rafting in the Tarim River, and glacier climbing.
Xinjiang tourism is specially featured by ice-snow tourism and adventure tourism, but there are many more.
Xinjiang has rich tourism resources and strong development potentiality, featuring with large amount, great varieties and high grade in terms of tourism resources, some of which are quite unique or rare in China and even the whole world. After the reform and opening up, Xinjiang tourism industry saw its steady growth from nothing, and then from small to big by breaking through many barriers and difficulties.
At present, Xinjiang has formed a tourism product development system with the core of “Silk Road Culture”, and the general layout of the tourism industry in Xinjiang, covering one world-class cultural tourism brand, two world-class boutique tourist areas, three loop lines along the Silk Road, four famous scenic spots, five major tourist areas, and six featured products series. Xinjiang tourism industry is striding toward a more brilliant future!
