Tours for on-vocation workers
5/7/2004 15:50
Jane Chen / Shanghai Daily news
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.
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