What are the source markets and selling points of typhoon watching tours?

The "typhoon tour", which has a certain degree of danger, is currently mainly reserved for adventure enthusiasts and outdoor sports people. With the improvement of safety protection facilities and typhoon forecasting mechanisms, group viewing of typhoons will have the advantage of Broad market prospects.

Chen Shengjun, a senior engineer at the Zhejiang Provincial Meteorological Center, believes that wherever typhoons go, trees fall down and houses are destroyed, and people avoid them. However, as long as safety issues are solved and organized properly, typhoon viewing can also be developed into a unique place. Tourism projects. He believes that there are thousands of islands along the coast of Zhejiang, and more than 100 of them can be developed for tourism, and they can all be used as places to watch typhoons.

Some experts in the Zhejiang tourism industry basically agree with this peculiar idea. They believe that "typhoon tourism" is dangerous to a certain extent and is currently mainly the preserve of adventure enthusiasts and outdoor sports people. It will be improved in the future. With the safety protection facilities and typhoon forecasting mechanism in place, group viewing of typhoons will have broad market prospects. Taking into account transportation, facilities and other conditions, they also recommended the best places to watch typhoons such as Yuhuan in Taizhou and Zhujiajian in Zhoushan.

However, Nanjing tourism experts are more concerned about the operability of "typhoon tourism". General Manager Li Kaoshan of Jiangsu Jinling Business Travel Agency said that generally after a typhoon forms in the ocean near the Philippines, its direction is not very certain when it moves north. Although it mainly makes landfall in Fujian and Zhejiang, it often moves as far north as Shandong. , as far south as Guangxi. This time, Typhoon Haitang made several changes in direction as it made landfall. Since it is difficult for tourists to determine where the typhoon will land, how should they plan their itinerary? There will also be errors in the login time, which is also an obstacle for travel agencies to organize groups. What is more important is the safety issue. Typhoons are too destructive. If mainlanders who have not personally experienced typhoons are organized to go there, no one can guarantee safety. After hearing this statement, a person from Sainty Travel Agency said, "It's outrageous." Even if tourists buy insurance, they will not take risks. What's more, typhoons only happen three or four times a year, so group formation is not large-scale and the cost is very high.