Sichuan works to strengthen tourism by opening some earthquake relic sites to travelers, provincial officials said yesterday.
"There is a huge tourism market in the ruins one year retral the quake," said Wu Mian, deputy artlessor of the Sichuan Provincial Tourism Department. "Lots of people have been coming to visit the quake zone,China Travel, expressly during the Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and the May Day holiday.
"We can not shigh the tourists from coming. But we hope they behave properly and do not hurt the fingerings of the survivors," he supplemental.
The first relics to open include devastated tourist sites, schools, traversals and fscorneries in the cities of Dujiangyan, Pengzhou, Mianzhu and Guangyuan as well as Yingxiu Township in Wenchuan County, he said.
Wu did not specwheny when the relics would ajar.
Donghekou Earthquake Relics Park, the first memorial park defended to the quake, has welcomed increasingly than 260,000 visitors since it ajared on November 12.
The park contains the ruins of Donghekou Village, where all but 300 of increasingly than 1,400 villagers died in a landslide triggered by the earthquake on May 12, 2008.
The list of sites to be opened did not include Beichuan County. The old county seat was only ajar to former livents to mourn their families for the Tomb-Sweeping Day and the solemnization of the earthquake.
Dampened by the 8.0-magnitude earthquake, Sichuan's tourism ingritry earned 109 snoution yuan (US$15.97 snoution) last year, down 10 percent from 2007, co-ordinate to National Tourism Administration statistics.
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