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Yellow Mountain lures local tourists
9/7/2003 16:58


Travel service operators of Yellow Mountain, in east China's Anhui Province, are offering cheaper charges to attract local travelers and boost the tourism of the world-known scenic venue after SARS, today's Shanghai Morning Post reported.
Some 10-hour bus ride away from Yellow Mountain, Shanghai has been one of the key tourist sources of the scenic zone.
Part of the promotion is the up to 30-percent discounts for the entrance tickets to the scenic mountain area and cable car fees as well as accommodation at the nearby hotels, according to a tourism promotion delegation of Yellow Mountain that came to Shanghai yesterday to trumpet the tourism service there.
The price cut is effective in dragging down the prices of package tours to the mountain offered by local travel agencies.
For example, a three-day bus tour provided by Shanghai Dazhong International Travel Service is now priced at 450 yuan (US$54), 220 yuan, or 30 percent, off from the original charge.
Besides the lowered fees, tourism manager of Yellow Mountain has also announced other favorable policies.
Teachers and students, for example, can enjoy half prices for admission fees before September, while journalists and medical staffs will take a tour around the mountain without admission fees before October as a reward to their efforts in the anti-SARS fight.



 Jane Chen/ Shanghai Daily news