The Fifth China Altay International Ice ＆ Snow Festival Opens

The Fifth China Altay International Ice ＆ Snow Festival opened recently This event will last till April 2016

Release time : 2016-01-22 11:57:00

source : wtcf

. Comprehensive profits of tourism are disproportionate to local abundant tourism resources, so it is inevitable that Altay will develop high-end customized tourism products.

The guests attending the International One Belt One Road Tourism Cooperation Forum said, Altay’s abundant tourism resources provide a broad space for the development of high-end customized tourism. Altay should center on the six basic tourism elements of eating, sleeping, going, traveling, purchasing and entertaining, as well as the six expanding elements of business, health, study, leisure, love and surprise, to explore regional features and develop personalized tourism products.

Some ideas are advanced like winter travel routes, miles gallery self-drive routes, scientific exploration routes, spa routes, prairie culture experience routes, low altitude travel routes (utility airport and helicopter travel products), grazing photography routes, bird watching photography routes, outdoor hiking (horse riding) routes, fishing routes and so on.

Altay ski origin and winter tourism

Guests of the forum believed Altay has the conditions to build a world ski resort and become an important winter tourism destination of China. Altay is known as the earliest origin of human ski and China’s most beautiful snow country. Human beings learnt ski here and ski went to the world from here. More than 10 thousand years ago, our ancestors in the Altai Mountains invented the fur snowboard built with fir panels and horse leg fur. It helped the ancient people to walk and hunt in the snow. The Altay fur snowboard meets human needs of survival and development, and it has been used till now and evolved into a fashionable international sport.

Winter sports will surely thrive. With the favorable opportunities of 2022 Beijing-Zhangjiakou Winter Olympics and China’s strategy of 300 million people on ice, winter sports and winter tourism will boom in China. On the other hand, Altay has natural