Tours for on-vocation workers
5/7/2004 17:40
Local workers will have an extra choice of routes to make a travel in
the summer, as Shanghai tourism authority has required travel agencies to design
routes catering to the employees whose employers stop production to cut power
use, today's Laodong Daily said.
More than 3,000 large companies, the city's
key power consumers, are involved in a government power program this summer,
under which they suspend production or shift working hours to cut industrial
power use and ensure sufficient supply for local residents.
Workers of these
companies take a seven-day holiday on shift as the production becomes less
busy.
To make their holidays colorful, Shanghai Tourism Commission asked
local big tour services to design special routes, usually taking four to five
days, to the holiday makers, with prices ranging from 200 yuan (US$24) to 3,000
yuan.
One of the most eye-catching routes is a bus travel from Shanghai to
Yantai, East China's Shandong Province.
According to Shanghai Dazhong
International Travel Service, tourists on the travel will set out by bus on the
expressway and stop at scenic spots along the route, including Jiangyin, Rizhao,
Qingdao, Laoshan and Penglai. They will fly back.
The bus-flight travel costs
1,180 yuan, up to 40 percent cheaper than the normal two-flight
travel.
Industry insiders expect the city's business of summer travel to
maintain for some three years, if the local power supply remains the current
situation.
Jane Chen / Shanghai Daily news
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