Emerging technologies are helping companies in the tourism industry to ward off the novel coronavirus effect, generate revenue and bring in tourists via online and offline strategies, experts said.
A case in point is the series of short videos featuring a slideway on a sea of flowers in Huangshan, East China’s Anhui province, that went viral on short video platform Douyin during the Lunar New Year holiday.
For instance, a 20-second video featured a girl sliding down the 150-meter rainbow-like slideway surrounded by large tracts of fully-bloomed flowers in Shilin, Yixian county of Huangshan. It received nearly 100,000 views within a few hours.
“When we saw the video, it felt like the natural beauty of Yixian…