Featuring unique and wonderful sceneries, favorable climate, rich folk customs and significant and time-honored history, Guizhou has been a highlight of tourism. Along with the rapid economic development and the improvement of infrastructure, Guizhou is getting more popular than ever, appealing to a great number of tourists. This year, there surprisingly estimated as many as 47 million tourists traveling in Guizhou, the number is even 8 million more than the total population of whole province. Then what exactly has made these amazing numbers possible? Nia will tell you more.

    This guide is named jinmin, she is not a professional guide but an image ambassador of the wind of colorful Guizhou, she actually works in government. Invited to be a guest guide, jinmin now take on a responsibility for introducing culture and history of tunbao to the visitors who come all the way from Singapore.

    Tourism Image Ambassador jinmin

    It is my first time serving as tour guide for foreign tourists since I have participated in tourism image ambassador competition，the number is beyond my expectation. Well, it can show that tunbao is famous nationwide and worldwide.

    tinalong tunbao is selected as experimental spot for developing rural tourism by World Tourism Organization. Sine it enjoys great reputation for its well-preserved stone buildings, ancient clothing and local drama of Ming dynasty, tourists usually choose it as must-go for their traveling. Even during off-season for tourism like December, tunbao is as usual, attracting tourists from home and abroad.

    G.M  TIANLONG TOURISM DEVLOPING AND INVESTMENT COMPANY chenyun

    The number of foreign tourists is getting increased, this year, the number even accounts of 10% of one year’s tourists. Thanks to the improvement of transportation, the number of car travel tourist is increased by 19%. Wth the successful promotion of the Wind of Color Guizhou, a heat of traveling in Guizhou has surged over the nation.

    This year is the very year that National Tourism Administration initiated the project of developing rural tourism, in order to keep abreast with the trend of tourism; Guizhou hosted an International Forum on Rural Tourism in Guiyang this September, through this forum, world tourism organization and World Bank decided to use Guizhou’s cultural and natural resource to work on booming the profile of Guizhou’s Rural Tourism. They worked out a plan which is first in China concerning how to establish the brand of ethnic cultural tourism while preserving unique local traditions and cultural heritages. Moreover, developing rural tourism was listed as the major part of promoting rural areas.

    This year, by means of holding various events including Souvenir Design Competition, Folk Craftsmen Competition, Souvenir Sales exhibition and huanguoshu waterfall festival, Guizhou’s has brought its own compelling natural and cultural resource to more people’s attention. 

    During this year，Guizhou’s tourism has won general popularity by creating a cultural brand of the wind of colorful Guizho. For example, the half-year-long competition of the tourism image ambassador of the wind of colorful Guizhou made a buzz around China, more than ten thousand of people have got involved into and it final competitions were held in five cities including Beijng, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong kong and Guiyang. Meanwhile, the singing and dance performance of the wind of colorful Guizhou have toured around China, vividly presenting Guizhou’s beautiful sceneries and rich culture. For almost one year, a Guzhou-fever surged over the whole nation.

    Tourist

    I have been to Guizhou, not great changes had made, the infrastructure is improved, I think that is why there are still a lot of tourists coming to Guizhou during off-season 

    Singapore Tourist

    This is my first time to China, very happy. Shopping is used to be my top priority while traveling but having sight-seeing of beautiful sceneries in Guizhou changes my preference; this is a total different experience 

    Deeply impressed by Guizhou’s culture and scenery, a Japanese artist wrote 15 songs about Guizhou while traveling in Guizhou.

    This year, Guizhou has organized about 14 international cultural communication events and invited tourism developers and press from 16 countries to embark on exploration of Guizhou tourism. Aiming at better promoting tourism, Guizhou has improved infrastructures, transportation, tourism facilities and tourism promotions.

    uring 7-day break of Labor Day, Guizhou received 4.45 million visitors from home and abroad, increased by 45.27%

    During National Day, Guizhou received 4.17 million visitors from home and abroad, increased by 45.24%, The whole year’s visitors are expected to be 47 million, and the income of tourism this year is estimated to be 35.2 billion yuan, increased by 40%.

 Meishan Zhou (nia)

    "Tunpu" are stone-structured villages dating back to the 14th century which are found in Guizhou Province. The ancestors of the inhabitants of the "Tunpu" were troops of the Ming Dynasty from the middle and lower reaches of the Changjiang (Yangtze) River who were sent to Anshun some 600 years ago. The garrison forces turned the neighbourhood into farmland, grew crops, and constructed villages of stone houses for their own needs and use.

    TianLong Tunpu is one of such stone villages located in Guizhou's Pingba County near Anshun. It occupies a strategic position, guarding what was once an important passage to Yunnan Province. Today, over 5000 people in 1,250 households, descendents of the imperial Ming Dynasty garrison troops, continue to live in TianLong Tunpu, maintaining their traditional customs and way of life from the Ming Dynasty, in a kind of "lost world" environment. Because they wear traditional costumes (usually long robes of blue with loose sleeves, and cuffs embroidered with laces for the womenfolk), you may easily mistake them for ethnic minority people, but in fact they are Han Chinese.

    The Wulong Monastery on Tiantai Mountain two kilometres east of the ancient town, shows the military legacy of the place, with its unique blend of military and religious architecture where stone walls and towers constructed for military defence exist side-by-side with the wooden structures of the temple.