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Li Xinjian: Cultural and tourism integration must be both interesting and meaningful.

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2025-01-09


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Author | Li Xinjian
Editor-in-chief | Yang Ming
Editor | Liu Kaiye
Source | Guangming Daily


The products of cultural and tourism integration must be both "interesting" and "meaningful." A cultural product that lacks appeal and fails to connect cultural elements with tourism needs will be difficult for tourists to choose and experience, making "using culture to shape tourism" an illusion; a tourism product that only has a "check-in function" will fail to attract attention to its deeper cultural value, making "using tourism to highlight culture" a mirage. Only through continuous innovation and choosing a high-quality development path for cultural and tourism integration can culture be "seen" through tourism, tourism be "remembered" because of culture, and tourists gain "meaningful" experiences from "interesting" products.



Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has attached great importance to cultural and tourism work. General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed the need to adhere to the principle of "using culture to shape tourism and using tourism to highlight culture" to promote the integrated development of culture and tourism. In recent years, various places have adopted many innovative measures, and the in-depth integration and development of culture and tourism have continuously achieved new results, effectively promoting the value transformation of cultural resources and promoting the high-quality development of the tourism industry.


These achievements in cultural and tourism integration have broadened our understanding of the scope of resources. In my opinion, in addition to the resource endowments bestowed by "Mother Nature" and the cultural heritage left by our "ancestors," the lifestyle resources embodied in "ordinary people" are being continuously tapped. These resources are collectively integrated into the current practice of cultural and tourism integration, which is closer to industrial needs and social realities.


The products of cultural and tourism integration must be both "interesting" and "meaningful." A cultural product that lacks appeal and fails to connect cultural elements with tourism needs will be difficult for tourists to choose and experience, making "using culture to shape tourism" an illusion; a tourism product that only has a "check-in function" will fail to attract attention to its deeper cultural value, making "using tourism to highlight culture" a mirage. Only through continuous innovation and choosing a high-quality development path for cultural and tourism integration can culture be "seen" through tourism, tourism be "remembered" because of culture, and tourists gain "meaningful" experiences from "interesting" products.


The Decision of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed to "improve the system and mechanism for the in-depth integration and development of culture and tourism," pointing the way for the integrated development of culture and tourism. To this end, we can focus on promoting several aspects:



Promoting the tourism of cultural scenes and the culturalization of tourism scenes


Cultural spaces can become new scenes for tourism experiences and consumption, and tourism spaces can become new stages for cultural display and dissemination. Cultural spaces must fully consider the influx of traffic. If the tourism of cultural spaces is not well done, most cultural spaces will easily become obscure; if the tourism work is well done, it will not only help to play the role of using culture to educate people, but also bring more economic value to these cultural spaces. Therefore, it is necessary to properly and appropriately integrate traditional culture into tourist sites, while inheriting and utilizing excellent traditional culture, paying attention to establishing and improving the franchise system for important cultural symbols and signs, standardizing and clarifying the public attributes of elements and symbols of Chinese traditional culture, and better promoting innovative development in culture and tourism.


Exploring new forms of cultural products through tourism development


Fully tapping into the scale dividend of China's tourism market, responding promptly to the people's aspirations for a better life, actively responding to people's demands for in-depth cultural and tourism experiences, playing the role of big data and artificial intelligence technologies in the practice of cultural and tourism integration, continuously tapping the potential in new forms and scenes of cultural and tourism; exploring effective mechanisms for the integrated development of "culture + technology," promoting the development of digital culture, technological art, etc., and effectively applying the development achievements to tourism; encouraging and promoting local exploration of innovative use and traffic monetization of data resources formed after the digitalization of cultural relics, especially encouraging the large-scale and social innovation and development of cultural and creative products.


Promoting inbound tourism and shaping a positive international cultural image


In recent years, China has continuously implemented new measures in terms of entry-exit management, actively promoting personnel exchanges, and has successively introduced more than 110 policies and measures to facilitate the entry of foreign nationals into China, continuously optimizing policies such as visa-free entry and transit visa exemption, and promoting a continuous increase in the number of foreign nationals entering China. With the help of these preferential policies, we can provide more opportunities and better platforms for foreigners, especially foreign teenagers, to travel to China, shaping a positive and healthy international cultural image of China in the minds of young people overseas. Through "interesting and meaningful" cultural and tourism, we can showcase an open, confident, civilized, and safe China, allowing more foreign tourists to appreciate China's rich tourism resources, profound cultural heritage, and the positive, upward, and united spirit of the Chinese people.



Special Survey on Investment in the Cultural and Tourism Industry


To gain a deeper understanding of the investment and development of the cultural and tourism industry, the China Tourism Academy, in conjunction with the China Amusement Machine and Amusement Park Association and other units, is conducting a special survey on investment in the cultural and tourism industry, and sincerely invites all member units and cultural and tourism enterprises to participate in the survey.


▲Scan the QR code to fill out the questionnaire



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