Ferry passenger ship carries passengers in an orderly manner in the Xiagu Sea. (Photo by reporter Wang Xieyun)
passengers are waiting in line at the Lujiang Road ferry terminal. (Photo by reporter Wang Xieyun)
By the end of 2023, Xiamen City will open 15 new maritime tourism passenger routes in stages, transform and build 9 new tourist passenger terminals; the market will gradually expand from the western waters to the east waters, and build a maritime tourism passenger system with sea tourism as the main focus and cross-island commuting, helping cross-island development and rural revitalization. The person in charge of of Xiamen Port Administration said yesterday when answering the mayor's special line.
has unique characteristics to build a maritime tourism network
It is reported that the new construction, renovation and channel dredging plans of 9 tourist passenger terminals have been organized for many demonstrations and gradually improved, and relevant approval procedures are being processed in a step-by-step manner. Among them, the renovation and upgrading of Gulangyu Sanqiutian Wharf and Songyu Wharf has been completed and is expected to start in June; other projects such as the renovation and upgrading of Gaoqi Fishing Port Passenger Terminal, the newly built Meifeng Sports Park Passenger Terminal, and the newly built Xiang'an District One and Two-Hall Passenger Terminal are also undergoing preliminary work in full swing.
"At present, Xiamen has 14 passenger routes. After these terminals are completed and put into use, another 15 routes are expected to be added." The person in charge said that this will further optimize the supply of tourism services in the western seas, accelerate the development of maritime tourism around the east seas, gradually connect coastal tourism hotspots, and create Xiamen's unique "maritime tourism network". Ships operating routes on
are also actively updating and upgrading. It is reported that from 2020 to the present, Xiamen City has cancelled 51 old small passenger ships. The average age of passenger ships in the city has been reduced from 16 years to 13 years, and a batch of new diesel-electric hybrid passenger ships have been put into use, which has significantly improved energy saving and noise reduction and vibration reduction, significantly improving the comfort of boating.
is innovating. Upgrading the marine tourism product
is constantly optimizing the infrastructure and capacity structure, while Xiamen is also innovating. The person in charge introduced that recently, on the basis of maintaining the original products such as "Seeing Kinmen on Sea" and " Lujiang Night Tour ", relevant enterprises in Xiamen have successively launched catering theme routes, wedding theme routes, fireworks on sea, and light show at sea, and launched Learning No. and Tuqiang No. Party History Learning Education Theme Boat, which meets people's needs for high-quality tourism.
It is worth mentioning that since this year, the largest maritime passenger ship in Fujian Province, "Bosaidong No. 66", has been put into operation, bringing the "sea reception room" that integrates "business talks + high-end catering + leisure and entertainment + sea sightseeing"; it launched the "Xiamen Happy Event" land-sea linkage tourism project, bringing the experience of maritime tourism to a new height.
"Recently, Xiamen Port will also integrate the three forces of port, aviation and tourism, and actively strive for the first Chinese luxury cruise ship "China Merchants Yidun" to operate in Xiamen, and explore the domestic dual-home port cruise route operation model that is mutually home port with Shenzhen Port ." The person in charge said that this will reactivate the Xiamen Port cruise (cruise) industry that has been silent for a long time due to the epidemic, further revitalize urban tourism resources, and strive to create a "cruising +" Fujian's all-round tourism characteristic brand, and realize the leverage effect of the cruise economy.
coordinated promotion and continuously make up for shortcomings and practice internal strength
The person in charge said that this year, after Xiamen established the port high-quality development command center, the development of maritime tourism passenger transport will be coordinated and promoted as an important task. At present, the Xiamen Port Administration is focusing on the action of "improving efficiency, improving efficiency, and improving efficiency", grasping the "window period" during the epidemic prevention and control period, constantly making up for "shortcomings" and practicing "internal strength", and fully promoting the implementation of the "Implementation Plan for Optimization and Improvement of Xiamen Maritime Tourism Passenger Transport".
While building a dock, opening routes, and increasing business, it also needs to provide excellent services.This year, Xiamen Port actively carried out the construction of "Digital Xiamen". At present, under the leadership of the Xiamen Port Administration, the Xiamen marine passenger transport platform has been launched. The original marketing channels of various marine tourism passenger transport companies are unified on the platform. Through unified management, unified shifts, unified ticket sales, and unified services are achieved; the use of big data management to accurately guide passenger flow and capacity flow, and the phenomenon of long queues during peak hours is no longer the realization of "going around Xiamen Bay with one mobile phone".
"Xiamen is known as the 'sea garden'. In this sea area of Xiamen Port, there are many tourism forms such as international cruise ships, city ferries, port sightseeing, leisure yachts, etc. With the deepening of cross-island development, the maritime tourism passenger transport market still has great development potential." The person in charge said that in the future, the Xiamen Port Administration will systematically plan to fully tap maritime tourism resources, create a safe and orderly maritime tourism passenger transport environment, and contribute to the high-quality development of Xiamen Port and the higher-level construction of "two highs and two transformations" cities. (Reporter Xu Jingming, Tang Haibo, Correspondent Xiagang Xuan)
Source: Xiamen Daily
