Influenced by the financial crisis, Guilin Tourism Bureau changes their concept timely, makes strategies and carries out a series of measures, resulting in remarkable achievements. In the first 5 months of this year, Guilin Tourism Bureau received a total of 6,787,500 tourists, an increase of 26.22% year-on-year and gaining total revenue of 4,489,780,000 yuan, an increase of 42.70% year-on-year, which ensured the healthy and steady development of Guilin tourism industry.

It has brought immediate results through a series of propaganda measures. On March 25, the ¡°First Tourism Group with one Thousand Tourists¡± of ¡°A Thousand cars and Ten Thousand People Touring Guilin¡±, organized by GZL International Travel Service Ltd, reached Guilin, which is arranged in accordance of the contract of Framework Agreement on Tourism Cooperation signed with Guilin Tourism Bureau. This is the first large tour group of Guangdong after the Guilin Tourism caravan entered Guangdong. On March 30, the tourist group of ¡°A Thousand cars and Ten Thousand People Touring Guilin¡±, composed of the villagers from Yanshou village, Nanyue District, Hengyang city in Hunan, arrived at Guilin. They visited Xiangshan and Seven Star scenic places. This is the first special "Friendly Train¡± after the sister city of Guilin and Hengyang reached the agreement of inter-visiting activity called "A Thousand cars and Ten Thousand People¡±. Now, tourist groups from Guangdong, Hunan, Shanghai, Hubei, and other places are flowing into Guilin. According to statistics, Guilin received 6,351,700 tourists at home this year, up 29.13% compared to the same period of last year; the tourism income reached 3,542,020,000 yuan£¬up 61.17% on a year-on-year basis. Domestic tourism is the backbone of the growth of travelers and tourism incomes of Guilin.

Landscape and folk-custom are the two major attractive tourism products of Guilin. After the spring festival, in order to give full play to the roles of the two brands, and attract the travelers to visit Guilin, Guilin and related regions of Guangxi signed the agreement of creating two special tour routes called "Tour the Best Landscape in Northeast Guangxi " and the "Folk Custom of Ethnic Minorities in Guangxi Tour", in a concerted effort to promote the two refined routes (Guilin-Lingui-Longshen-Sanjiang-Rongshui-Liuzhou).