Why is it called Golden Week?

The Golden Week officially started on 1 1 of 1999. At that time, the State Council issued a special document, the main purpose of which was to stimulate consumption and stimulate domestic demand. Due to the anniversary of the National Day and the weather, 1999 "Eleventh" tourism was not popular.

Spring is a good time to travel. During the Golden Week of May 1, 2000, people took advantage of the long vacation to travel. Most traditional tourist attractions are crowded with people. At that time, the media used "blowout" to describe this sudden tourist tide. At that time, Taishan scenic spot in our province set a record of receiving more than 50 thousand people a day, and this record has not been broken so far. At stations and scenic spots, people wait in line for cars and other ropeways for hours. Tickets are difficult to buy, rooms are difficult to book, and cars are difficult to travel ... This scene is still vivid to many people.

Crowds of tourists jostle shoulder to shoulder, which makes all the tourist attractions, hotels, transportation and catering feel unprecedented pressure, resulting in profiteering and cheating, and the prices of accommodation and catering have doubled.

From then on, people were surprised to find that there was so much "gold" in the Golden Week. The media used "pots full of pots" to describe the gains of merchants and "holiday economy" to describe the new impetus of the Golden Week. Since then, people have begun to see chartered flight and special trains, and the number of people traveling abroad with passports has also increased. That is, from then on, the real mass tourism boom began.

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