The famous tourist city of Huangshan in China’s Anhui province announced that it is creating conditions for tour guides who are temporarily unemployed to pick tea to earn extra income.
The reason is that the Covid-19 epidemic has had a great impact on China’s tourism industry for more than 2 years and there is no sign of an early recovery. Currently, the corona virus is spreading rapidly in provinces in China recently and forcing many areas to implement a blockade order to prevent the epidemic from spreading.
Tea hill in Huangshan city, China. (Photo: Xinhua News Agency)
This has resulted in the Chinese tourism industry not being able to function as it should and leading to the majority of tour guides being unemployed.
The Global Times reported that, according to a notice on the job search bulletin on March 24 from the Hoang Son Association of Tour Guides, some tour guides are facing difficulties in life and need to find temporary jobs. time to earn income.
With support from the local government, the Huangshan Association of Tour Guides said that the organization currently has a job picking tea for tour guides with a salary of 170 yuan (US$26.73). ) everyday. In addition, accommodation and meals are free. Even travel expenses are reimbursed.
Not only is it a tourist destination visited by domestic and foreign tourists, but Hoang Son is also a tea plantation in China. Spring is also the time to harvest tea. This seasonal work will start from April 10-30, according to the announcement of the Hoang Son Tour Guide Association.
The most famous landmark in Huangshan city must be mentioned is the Huangshan mountain range. It is famous for its spectacular scenery, sunsets, strangely shaped granite peaks, the Huangshan pine forest, the scenery changing with the seasons and covered with clouds, and hot springs and snow in winter.
According to the local government, in 2021, Huangshan city will welcome 63.17 million tourists with a total tourism industry revenue of 53.8 billion yuan for the year. This figure is equivalent to 81% of the revenue of the Hoang Son tourism industry in 2019.
Before the Covid-19 epidemic appeared, in 2019, about 74 million tourists visited Hoang Son, nearly 7 times higher than the number of visitors to Hawaii in the US in the same year. The number of tourists living outside of mainland China visiting Huangshan is 2.87 million.
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