Three Gorges Tourism Booms Again in the National Day Holiday

Published : 4:07 A.M. EST, Oct 11, 2007

According to China's National Tourism Administration, in the past Golden Week of the National Day Holiday, the Three Gorges Dam Scenic Area has received a total of 72 thousand tourists from home and abroad, increasing by 29% compared with that of the same period of the last year. Especially, the tourists' number on October 4^th reached 15.3 thousand, which broke the historical record.

It is said that the dramatically increase of tourists should be mainly attributed to the route change of tourist planning of the Three Gorges Dam Scenic Area. Following the original route, visitors had to travel Three Gorges at night. Since a new route starting from Yichang Port has been opened to the public, it is more convenient for visitors to appreciate the entire beauty of Three Gorges area by cruising along the Yangtze River.

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