On the 28th, at the Yantai tourism promotion event held in Xuzhou as part of the "Visit Shanghai Expo, Tour Yantai" campaign, the picturesque coastal scenery, unique tourist attractions, and favorable tourism policies of Yantai caught the attention of local travel agencies. There was also a tribute concert featuring the golden hits of Teresa Teng titled "Retain Your Years - Reenactment of Teresa Teng's Classic Songs."
That evening, at the Yantai tourism promotion meeting in Xuzhou station, the Yantai Tourism Bureau and the Xuzhou Tourism Bureau signed the "2010 Expo Tourism Cooperation Agreement." They introduced the top ten tourism products, twenty excellent routes, and fifty tourism festival activities for Yantai's 2010 tourism year. Additionally, Yantai offered rewards ranging from 5,000 to 30,000 yuan for charter flights, special trains, and chartered ships bringing tour groups from Xuzhou to Yantai. The travel agencies of Xuzhou showed strong interest in Yantai's "grand tourism package."
Manager Xing Bin of the Xuzhou Department Store Travel Agency told reporters: "The people of Xuzhou have a preference for Yantai's tourism environment. We don't have the sea here in Xuzhou. With the 'Retain Your Years - Reenactment of Teresa Teng's Classic Songs' concert, your seawater quality is very good. We've created a Peninsula Express Line: Direct Bus to Yantai, Weihai, and Penglai, which has been quite effective. Today, we got to know about the Mu Family Estate and the Landmine Warfare Scenic Area. We plan to create a special line and include these attractions, which will be great."
The geographical characteristics of Yantai and Xuzhou naturally form a tourism difference that widens the cooperative space for both markets. Deputy Director Dong Yufang of the Xuzhou Tourism Bureau said: "Yantai is a very beautiful coastal city, while our Xuzhou is an inland city with tourism products mainly focusing on cultural tourism and red tourism. Our two places' products are highly complementary, and the transportation is also very convenient. Through this promotion meeting, the tourism bureaus of both our places will build a more efficient bridge to facilitate seamless tourism interaction between the enterprises of both places."