National Day tourism crowds Culture and nighttime shows

Oct 1–6

CCTV reports busy scenic areas and cultural activities during the 2026 National Day holiday. It gives nearly 14% year-on-year visitor growth at Mount Siguniang and more than 125,000 visits at Huangguoshu over the first three holiday days. Yangshuo extends bamboo-rafting hours and adds performances; Kashgar tourists describe desert and mountain scenery. The account continues through Zhenjiang, Longchuan's communal heritage dance, renewed Gubeikou streets and Zhangzhou's opera traditions, with a visitor describing relaxation. Nighttime boating, light displays, folk performances and markets feature in Fenghuang, Bozhou, Liangping, Changchun and Ganzhou. Selected visitors' favorable views are individual opinions, and local counts retain their place and period.

CCTV reports busy tourism at the start of the 2026 National Day holiday, including more than 300,000 first-day visitors around Tian'anmen and more than 6,000 on Wuzhizhou Island. Landscapes, traditional performances, cultural markets and heritage crafts draw visitors in several provinces. Local counts retain their own scope; selected tourists describe pride and enjoyment. CCTV's October 4 continuation reports nearly 14% year-on-year growth at Mount Siguniang and over 125,000 Huangguoshu visits over the first three holiday days, extended Yangshuo rafting and diverse daytime, heritage and nighttime outings. These compatible local updates describe the continuing holiday tourism episode; no aggregate national visitor total is inferred. CCTV's October 3 accounts add ecological outings, Tianshan Tianchi's reported 25% first-two-day visitor growth, heritage and museum visits, local nighttime events and film-location tourism. Wangxian Valley's 200,000 holiday visitors remain a forecast; Shitanjing's over 10,000 daily visits refer to recent days. These are compatible local additions to the continuing national holiday episode, not a combined nationwide count. CCTV's October 6 continuation adds nearly 150,000 Chaka Salt Lake visits over the first five holiday days and over 3.85 million visitors at Beijing's 14 municipal parks. It presents scenic and cultural visits, boating, lantern and light shows and nighttime cruises, with one tourist's favorable testimony. Counts remain local and period-qualified; this is a continuation of the holiday tourism episode.