From April 21 to 22 during the Beijing BNB Expo, 2018 Beijing International Homestay Industry Cooperation and Development Forum and the Second Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Homestay Industry Development Forum was hosted by the China Tourism Association. Led by Fu Shunyi, deputy secretary of the CPC Beidaihe District Committee and Gao Yin Shan, deputy head of the district, the District Tourism Bureau organized a group of members of Beidaihe Excellent Homestays Alliance to the event.
During the event, Beidaihe district was officially awarded Model District of National Homestay Industry by the China Tourism Association. It’s the only recipient of this award from Hebei province and also one of the first nine award recipients in China, including Yanqing from Beijing, Lishui from Zhejiang province, Mount Huangshan from Anhui province. Gao Yin Shan, deputy district head, received the award from the China Tourism Association. At the same time, Chen Chen, a member of the Beidaihe Excellent Homestay Alliance and the owner of the bookshop Under the Peach Tree, actively participated in the Homestay Host Training activity organized by the China Tourism Association and obtained the Certificate of Achievement with the required theory and practice as a homestay host. In addition, his bookshop Under the Peach Tree fortunately conformed to the standard of the evaluation, and successfully entered the next round for Good Chinese Homestay on behalf of our district.
Fu Shunyi, deputy secretary of the PCP District Committee, publicized the development of Beidaihe's homestay industry in the round table dialogue of Homestay Development and Rural Revitalization. He pointed out, “Homestay development is an effective way to promote rural revitalization, an important support for global tourism and and a crucial way to achieve the objectives of an ecologically rich and strong district. The homestay hosts should go out of the house and make efforts to build distinctive homestays with local characteristics, which also should be regarded as the new driving force and new engine to promote the development of rural tourism”.
In the subsequent exhibition, the members of Beidaihe Excellent Homestay Alliance attained a detailed understanding of the advanced products on display and exchanged ideas with the exhibitors. which benefited them a lot. It is commonly acknowledged that everyone benefit a lot from this learning activities and broaden their horizons. A series of a subsequent activities would be organized in order to promote the development of Beidaihe's homestay industry. All forces of the society are supposed to be integrated to accelerate the output of overall brand.
The winning of the award of Model District of National Homestay Industry will play a leading and exemplary role in promoting the development of homestay industry in our district. What we must do next is to make constant progress on the healthy development of homestay, continuously intensifying the efforts of resource integration, demonstration and promotion, and standardized management, forcing the low-end homestays to be upgraded and striving to build the brand of Beidaihe Excellent homestay.