In Hongyadong Scenic Area, Yuzhong District, tourists shoot beautiful scenery on Qiansimen Bridge. (Photo taken on February 15) Reporter Yin Shiyu Photo/Visual Chongqing
Following the "Village Supermarket" in Guizhou, the barbecue in Zibo and the ice and snow in Harbin, the wind of traffic has blown to the northwest.
Since March, Tianshui Mala Tang in Gansu has been on the hot search list on major social platforms, "a bowl of Mala Tang, a city with fire". For a time, this northwestern town opened a "Mala Tang Special Line" and held a "Eating Festival" for Mala Tang … All kinds of fancy pet powder scenes are exactly the same as the "please-oriented market" in Zibo and Harbin.
This seems to be so familiar to Chongqing, which is well versed in traffic. As early as 2018, Chongqing was circled with the "8D Magic", and the total number of videos related to the city image reached 11.36 billion times, making it the "City of Tik Tok" ranking first in the country, with a fire tourism economy. In 2019, the National Day received 38.5961 million tourists, exceeding the total population of Chongqing, and because of measures such as "closing bridges" and "vacating a city", Chongqing became a "city".
Then, how to continue to manage the cultural tourism industry under the "flow"? What enlightenment does the popularity of "Tianshui Mala Tang" bring to the current Chongqing cultural tourism? In the past few days, the reporter has conducted an investigation on this.
A bowl of mala Tang set a city on fire.
Some people say that in the era of short video, traffic is like a pool, and different topics are rippling every day. For cities, the most intuitive and local elements are often the most "explosive".
Food is the most important thing for the people, and food is used to incite the flow, which has the function of "four or two", as in Zibo and Tianshui.
This round of Tianshui out of the circle can be traced back to February 13, a video of Tianshui Mala Tang released by a netizen. The attractive color and spicy taste of YOLO made netizens marvel that "it can make people drool through the screen", and its video quickly won millions of likes and was shared by 1.83 million netizens.
"Gansu Tianshui Mala Tang" quickly climbed the hot search list on major social platforms. At present, it has been played more than 1.39 billion times on social media such as Tik Tok, Weibo, Xiaohongshu and WeChat, and Tianshui has completely opened up a new world of traffic. Mala Tang lovers and food bloggers from all over the country flocked to Tianshui and traveled thousands of miles to eat a bowl of Mala Tang.
After becoming popular, the relevant departments in Tianshui responded very quickly, opening the familiar "pet powder" mode: painting walls and repairing roads overnight, organizing special car service at the airport, and opening a "mala Tang special line" …
Various scenic spots, hotels, travel agencies and so on in Tianshui have also taken action to send scenic spots tickets, cultural and creative products, accommodation concessions, local specialties and so on to foreign tourists.
Tianshui Municipal Government also held a special meeting to promote the service guarantee of "Tianshui Malatang", asking the whole city to seize the opportunity, take advantage of the situation, take full action, show full sincerity, make careful efforts, make careful arrangements and preparations, and make every effort to ensure the service, and strive to achieve "a bowl of Malatang promotes the great development of Tianshui".
Under the blessing of traffic, Tianshui’s cultural tourism market quickly became popular. In addition to the mala Tang shops that queue for several hours, Fuxi Temple, museums, Maijishan Grottoes and other places in the urban area have also attracted a large number of tourists.
The data shows that during the weekend from March 16th to March 17th, Tianshui received 435,900 tourists, including 136,800 tourists from outside the province, and the comprehensive tourism income was about 263 million yuan.
According to the "2024 Qingming Small Holiday Consumption Trend Report" released by Tongcheng Travel, Tianshui has entered the top ten of this year’s Qingming Small Holiday destinations, becoming this year’s "dark horse" destination.
The "Grass Planting Machine" in the Short Video Written Travel Market
From the track Liziba Station and Hongyadong in Chongqing, to the "Turkish Ice Cream" in Gulangyu, Xiamen, to the "Village Supermarket" in Guizhou, the barbecue in Zibo, and the ice and snow in Harbin … In recent years, short-sighted cases of burning one store, one road and one city have been common, and even have a profound impact on consumers’ travel habits and the marketing methods of the tourism industry.
In this regard, Zhang Qi, the general manager of Hongyadong Scenic Area, who is the first in the country to enjoy the traffic dividend, feels "not surprising". In his view, short videos can adapt to the fast pace of life in modern society, integrate different communication advantages such as words, pictures, images and music, bring users an immersive experience in a short time, and have the characteristics of low browsing threshold and strong experience, which can stimulate consumers’ desire to buy and have natural "adaptability" with tourism, food and other fields.
Zhou Zhaoxin, the project manager of the second factory of Erling, transformed the abandoned industrial site into the Wenchuang Park of the second factory of Erling 10 years ago, which caused a sensation in the whole country and was also the beneficiary of the first wave of short video traffic. He said that the moving feature of short videos lies in the personalized perspective and way of expression. From "planting grass" online to "pulling grass" offline, short videos have brought benefits to businesses, short video bloggers and tourists.
"Before going out, watch short videos as a guide; When traveling, taking videos to share experiences and experiences … Short videos have a natural’ close relationship’ with the tourism industry, and have quietly changed people’s travel habits, thus changing the’ traditional gameplay’ of the tourism industry and giving birth to new models. " Zhang Dawei, general manager of regional government affairs of Ctrip Group, said that at present, marketing through short videos has become the mainstream of the cultural tourism market, and it covers six major elements of tourism, namely "eating, living, traveling, buying and entertaining". First, it is a new trend to "plant grass" and then "pull grass".
Find the right traffic password and promote the modernization of communication ability
In fact, not only at home, but also around the world, world-class tourist cities are all cities with strong communication ability and influence.
As an early batch of "fire up", Chongqing has made many beneficial explorations in recent years.
Our city has held three consecutive Chongqing cultural tourism photography and short video competitions, and successfully launched a large number of outstanding works, such as "Come to Chongqing, spoil you more", "Yunhai Chongqing" and "Canoe has crossed Chung Shan Man".
It is worth mentioning that in January this year, Beijing Normal University’s New Media Communication Research Center, China Daily Network, Guangming.com and Beijing Normal University’s Education News and Media Research Center jointly released the Report on the Construction of Overseas Network Communication Power in China in 2023. The top ten cities are Shanghai, Beijing, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Wuhan, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shaoguan and Tianjin. This is also the top ten list of China’s overseas network communication power.
Hongzhong Zhang, dean of the School of Journalism and Communication of Beijing Normal University, one of the publishers of this report, said that the reason why Chongqing can "do it" in this investigation of communication power is that the communication content of the city is diversified, and it is no longer limited to homogeneous contents such as tourist scenery, but shapes the image of the city by showing unique cultural symbols, economic strength, scientific and technological achievements, natural landscape and historical details. In the form of communication, short video has been widely used, which vividly shows the landscape and culture of the city through exquisite images, dynamic scene switching and rich colors.
Then, how will Chongqing continue to manage the urban development under the "flow"?
At the end of last year, at the city’s conference on propaganda and ideological and cultural work, our city clearly put forward that it is necessary to continuously enhance the influence of all-media communication, create a new mainstream public opinion communication platform, promote the development of media integration, strengthen the construction of international communication capacity, and tell the China story and the new Chongqing story in an all-round way.
Next, our city will adhere to the integration of international communication and urban development, innovate the concept of urban international communication, focus on urban narrative, land and sea narrative, build a system of urban international communication, and do a good job in urban international communication brand projects, so as to further enhance Chongqing’s international reputation and reputation.
At the same time, we will further innovate and promote the efficiency of urban communication, solidly promote the modernization of communication capacity, and strive to create an open image of a new Chongqing as a city of land and sea, a city of vitality, a green image of a city of mountains and waters, and a colorful image of a city of people, so that the world can know more about Chongqing and become an important window for the world to know about China.
"The shaping and dissemination of city image is a long-term process. The characteristics of information dissemination in the all-media era require that we should grasp the key points of city image dissemination and cultivate public awareness of city image." The relevant person in charge of the Municipal Cultural Tourism Commission said that, next, the strengths of the cultural tourism industry in our city in improving communication power include: making good use of the short video as a "grass planting machine" to enhance the communication power of the city image; Make good use of community communication and "fan" communication to stimulate tourists’ communication initiative; Docking urban context with cultural creativity and cultivating urban cultural IP; Integrate science and technology into tourism, realize the combination of soft culture and hard power, and let tourism products show their unique charm. (New Chongqing-Chongqing Daily reporter Han Yi)