Since a project entitled 'Traveling in Ningbo' was initiated on February 14, more tourist attractions, restaurants and travel agencies were invited to provide favorable policies to customers. It is said that more than 200,000 coupons have been issued by local governments to touruists and what is special is, some coupons were issued to tourists from Shanghai, Jiaxing, Nanjing, Suzhou, Wuxi and Changzhou. It turned out that tourism coupons is really making a boom in this spring.

On March 14 and 15, there were 620,000 tourists who visited Dongqian Lake. A lot of them even drove to Dongqian Lake by themselves with tourism coupons issued by local government.
Statistics shows that tourists have demonstrated great enthusiasm since tourism coupons was issued. There have occurred several tourimsm booms in Ningbo. Travel agencies, who were once stuck in financial crisis, are now in their happiest mood to greet the spring of tourism. More than 8,000 tourists with tourism coupons chose to tour places around Ningbo while some chose to tour Taiwan, Beijing, Hainan or Yunnan.

Chen Xianmin, the spokesman for Ningbo Tourism Bureau, says that the purpose of issuing tourism coupons is to publicize tourism in Ningbo. However, we can not expect that it will help to create a system. After all, it’s just a temporary practice.