As the tourist market starts to boom rapidly in June, the peak tourist season has come in Qingdao earlier than expected. The diversified and vigorous modern urban tourism system with unique Qingdao characteristics has become an important engine for urban growth.

Coastal lines in Qingdao take the lead in showcasing exuberant vitality. The top eight core sea routes in the campaign of “Tour around Qingdao on the Sea” have gained a lot of popularity. The route between the Olympic Sailing Center and the Undersea World receives daily close to 3,000 tourists. The Olympic sailing marine culture tourism area in Qingdao, which is launching a campaign to build itself into a national 5A scenic spot, saw a daily tourist volume of up to 97,000 this year.

    Furthermore, since the beginning of this year, Qingdao has stepped up innovation of tourism activities and come up with a great many themed tourist routes with distinctive features to cater to such new demand as micro-travel, slow leisure and deep vacationing and focus on planning and development in tourism+study trip, tourism+camping, tourism+film and TV industry, tourism+health care, tourism+intangible cultural heritage and “tourism+sports”. 48 new travel agencies have been added to Qingdao since the beginning of this year, making the total number soar to 702, an increase of 36.6% compared with the level in 2019. The number of registered guides has reached 11,462, an increase of 54.6% compared with that in 2019.  (Ma Xiaoting)

The Qingdao Old Stone Man Bathing Beach.