TAI'AN China, May 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- This is a report from the Shandong office of Hong Kong Business Daily. On May 13th, the 2025 Tai'an City Cultural and Tourism Industry High Quality Development Conference opened in Feicheng City, known as the "Peach City of China". Guests from the cultural and tourism system, business community, and academic community of Shandong Province gathered together. The conference will showcase the new achievements of Tai'an's cultural and tourism industry's "second entrepreneurship" through project observation, opening ceremony, and work meetings, sounding the call for high-quality development of the entire tourism industry.
Relying on the construction of Mount Taishan Cultural Heritage and Innovation Demonstration Zone, Tai'an will receive 94.294 million domestic tourists in 2024, with tourism revenue of 90.27 billion yuan, up 12.3% and 13.8% respectively. The "Mount Taishan+" tourism industry cluster has been selected as one of the first pillar wild geese array clusters in Shandong Province. Since the beginning of this year, the tourism market in Tai'an City has continued to be booming, receiving 2016.21 million tourists in the first quarter and achieving a tourism revenue of 19.013 billion yuan, an increase of 9.47% and 10.63% year-on-year, respectively.
At the conference, the gold medalist of the 18th National Peach Blossom Tourism Product Innovation Design Competition, the 2024 gold medal tour guide, and the award-winning enterprise of "Bringing Tourists into Thailand" were also commended, covering three major areas of tourism products, service quality, and market expansion, fully demonstrating the innovative vitality of Tai'an's cultural and tourism industry.
It is reported that in 2025, Tai'an Culture and Tourism will focus on "optimizing stock and expanding quantity", launching a number of iconic projects: the upgraded live performance of "Fengshan Grand Ceremony" has returned, and incremental projects such as Jiunvfeng Fairy Tale Village will soon be unveiled; Based on the effect of the 2025 CCTV New Year's Eve Gala, we will continue to carry out a series of activities to promote the prosperity of tourism during the off-season.
Tai'an will provide the most thoughtful service and comprehensive guarantee to create a broader development space for enterprises coming to Tai'an. At the same time, we strive to provide tourists with more intimate, comfortable, and reassuring tourism services, and strive to build Tai'an into a national level tourist and leisure destination city.