Official estimates of the number of tourists received by Huangshan Scenic Area last year vary: 4.5746 million or 4.5746 million? Square kilometers | One word difference | Huangshan Scenic Area
Recently, Huangshan City, Anhui Province officially released the "Huangshan City 2023 National Economic and Social Development Statistical Bulletin", which disclosed a number of tourism data for the Huangshan Scenic Area last year.
Screenshot of the Huangshan City Statistics Bureau's "Huangshan City 2023 National Economic and Social Development Statistical Bulletin" published by Huangshan Daily
The second and third pages of "Huangshan Daily" published on April 17 published the contents of the "Communique", which mentioned in the "Cultural Tourism, Health and Sports" section that "Huangshan Scenic Area received 4.5746 million domestic and foreign tourists. An increase of 227.5%; ticket revenue was 560 million yuan, an increase of 249.4%.”
The Paper noted that this statement was slightly different in the "Communique" published on the official website of the Anhui Provincial Bureau of Statistics more than 10 days later.
Screenshot of the content of the "Huangshan City 2023 National Economic and Social Development Statistical Bulletin" published on the official website of the Anhui Provincial Bureau of Statistics
On April 28, the "Communique" published on the official website of the Anhui Provincial Bureau of Statistics mentioned that "Huangshan Scenic Area received 4.5746 million domestic and foreign tourists, an increase of 227.5%; ticket revenue was 560 million yuan, an increase of 249.4%."
Is the official statistics of the number of domestic and foreign tourists received by Huangshan Scenic Area last year "persons" or "person-times"? Although there is only one word difference, the definitions are very different - "person-time" is different from "number of people". Every time a tourist enters the Huangshan Scenic Area, he must buy a ticket, which is counted as one person-time. If he goes n times, it is counted as n people.
Specifically, if Huangshan Scenic Area received 4.5746 million domestic and foreign tourists last year, the statistics are the total number of tourists who visited Huangshan Scenic Area last year, and some of them may have entered the scenic area multiple times.
Huangshan is a world cultural and natural heritage, a world geological park, and a world biosphere reserve. It is a national scenic spot, a national civilized scenic tourist area, and a national 5A tourist attraction. It is praised by the world as "Wonderland on Earth" and "The Most Wonderful Mountain in the World" "It is famous for its "Five Wonders" of strange pines, strange rocks, sea of clouds, hot springs and winter snow.
Huangshan Mountain is located in Huangshan City in southern Anhui Province. The mountain range is about 40 kilometers long from north to south and 30 kilometers wide from east to west, with a total area of about 1,200 square kilometers. Among them, Huangshan Scenic Area covers an area of 160.6 square kilometers, starting from Huangshi in the east, ending at Xiaolingjiao in the west, starting from Erlong Bridge in the north, and reaching Tangkou Town in the south. It is divided into hot springs, Yungu, Yuping, Beihai, Songgu, Diaoqiao, and Fu There are nine management areas including Xi, Yanghu and Fugu.
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