What's the date of Shanghai Tourism Festival every year?

Shanghai Tourism Festival was founded in 1990, and its activities began on a Saturday in September every year, lasting more than 20 days, covering nearly 40 projects in several categories, such as sightseeing, leisure, entertainment, culture and sports, exhibitions, food and shopping, attracting more than 8 million tourists every year.

Shanghai Tourism Festival is co-sponsored by Shanghai Cultural Tourism Bureau and Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce. It is the largest and most influential large-scale tourism festival in China.

Shanghai Tourism Festival takes "People's Festival" as its orientation and "Entering Beauty and Joy" as its theme. Through the colorful and distinctive festival activities in various districts and counties in Shanghai, we will publicize the requirements of the "Belt and Road" strategy for the development of tourism and attract strong support and extensive participation from all walks of life. Shanghai Tourism Festival has become a landmark festival for Shanghai to build a world famous tourist city, among which traditional activities include Shanghai Tourism Festival float parade and appraisal grand prix, Shanghai micro-tour, etc. Nearly 100 festivals, including sightseeing, leisure, entertainment, customs, exhibitions, food, shopping and other tourism experiences, have shown the infinite charm of Shanghai's urban scenery, urban culture and urban humanities at home and abroad.

20 16 Shanghai Tourism Festival was held wonderfully from September 10 to June 10. The opening ceremony parade is a joyful opening event of the annual tourism festival, and 20 16 is the first year that Shanghai Tourism Image Ambassador Hugh attended the opening ceremony. Like all Shanghai residents, he welcomes tourists from all over the world to Shanghai with the most enthusiastic attitude and feels all aspects of the city. Like previous tourism festivals, activities such as float parade, rose wedding and Nanxiang Xiaolong Cultural Festival were also held as scheduled. However, due to the prohibition of setting off fireworks and firecrackers in the outer ring newly stipulated in 20 16, the Century Park Music Fireworks Festival, as the closing ceremony of the tourism festival, was suspended, and an air concert was held in Shanghai Central Air Green Space.

20 18 Shanghai Tourism Festival came to an end on the 6th. This increasingly international tourism festival * * * attracted12.75 million Chinese and foreign tourists, with a year-on-year increase of 5%.

20 18 is the 40th anniversary of the reform and opening-up, and Shanghai has issued "30 tourism articles" aimed at building a world famous tourist city. 20 18 Tourism Festival's splendid new routes, activities and supplies are all around the above themes.

During the Tourism Festival, Shanghai released the first batch of 50 popular places for leisure, 5 classic routes for industrial tourism, 7 micro-tourism routes for "reading Shanghai" and 5 routes for people to visit Shanghai. 74 tourism and leisure activities cover 16 districts of the whole city, and highly integrate tourism with culture, shopping, sports, industry, rural revitalization, science and technology, cruise and so on. [3 1]